New Social Music Platforms #1: www.Thecrowdsource.net

 

Below is the first in our bimonthly series of interviews on new social music platforms from across the globe. The way we are consuming music is becoming more social with each waking hour of our existence, Music is Social.

Spencer Pawson is a past pupil of London Metropolitan’s Music & Media Management course & a self proclaimed specialist in Long Island Ice Tea.

You can check him out here, http://linkd.in/vPqH5l

Thecrowdsource.net is an example of the extremely important grass roots support for up and coming bands and venues that support them. Respect.

Music and Synchronization: Independents Leading the way

By Michal Reinboth

(head , founder of Compost Records, Drumpoet Community, Derwin Recordings, Angora Steel, Compost Black Label)

www.compost-records.com

„Synch“ becoming the most important keyword at any independent label since the mess of illegal filesharing, accompanied and due to dwindling record sales. Some labels concentrate more and more on so called „synch promo“.
What does this mean, how it works, which options do an indie or even self managed artist
may have? It is a wide wide field, a real jungle, sometimes a nightmare, often frustrating,
a hustle, hard work, a lot of luck, too, but today it is an essential indispensable „thang“ in
independent music industry.

Consumer brands are the new record labels.

By Michiel Cremers, Head of Music Marketing at MassiveMuisic

In the last decade or so, the Internet has made so many things pretty much obsolete. There’s simply no demand for them anymore. Travel agents, cashier checks, postal offices or any kind of middleman – all memories from a not so distant analogue past, made redundant by the explosive rise of digital. In the music market, it’s the record labels
that have taken a severe beating by today’s unstoppable online developments. The traditional record company business model has proven impossible to maintain in the digital age and with the arrival of social platforms, they’re at risk of losing their purpose in the distribution & promotion chain entirely to an unlikely competitor: consumer
brands.

Social Gaming & Online Music Consumption Unite

 

Social gaming and online music consumption unite! Juha Hynynen CEO : SongHi Entertainment

According to recent surveys social network users make up more than two-thirds (and
growing) of total Internet users. The rapid growth in users makes social networks a strong
platform for social game developers to build awareness and acquire players. Consequently,the popularity of social media gaming has gone through the roof and the numbers of players have sky-rocketed into the hundreds of millions.

Are there too many music conferences ?

I saw a report from Digital Music News regarding digital music conferences and asking the question, how many do we need?. I think they counted 36 and missed a whole lot of very respected conferences in that count, not to mention, cough cough, The Future Music Forum Barcelona.

Future Music Forum Barcelona : The Future Of Mobile Apps: Stephen Titmus:Shazam

 

It’s undeniable that mobile applications have an exciting future. The Smartphone market is growing, so much so that Morgan Stanley estimates the mobile phone, rather than the PC, will be the primary device for accessing the web by 2013. This means that mobile applications are going to be a part of the everyday lives for an ever-growing number of people.

Music Entrepreneurs : Future Music Forum Barcelona 2011

The Future Music Forum Barcelona was designed to aid the burgeoning online music industry, after cutting our teeth producing high level corporate digital media events the digital music industry was an obvious channel to focus our energies on.