Improving Your Artist Site Search Ranking By Using Image Alt Tags
If you’re an artist or a band with a website you really depend upon ranking high when someone searches for you. It’s not only embarrassing when you don’t wind up in the top 3 search listings, but you might as well not exist if you wind up on page 2 or worse. That’s why every […]
Continue readingCD Baby And TuneCore Enter China, Digital Patchbays, And Producer-Engineer Yoad Nevo On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Yoad Nevo, who’s credits include over thirty #1 singles, more than fifty Top 10 albums and over sixty Top 10 singles worldwide as a producer, mixer and mastering engineer. Among the artists he’s worked with include Sia, Bryan Adams, Pet Shop boys, Sugababies, The Dandy Warhols, Moby, Morcheeba and many […]
Continue readingBandsintown Launches City-Specific Live Music Charts
There are a ton of music charts these days, many that replicate one other. Some are meaningful to a certain audience and in turn, mean nothing to another. Others are fading in relevance with the arrival of newcomers. But there’s always room for more, right? Live music discovery platform Bandsintown has launched a series of […]
Continue readingThis Streaming Nightmare Shows Why Blockchain Won’t Save The Music Business Just Yet
I started getting blockchain music pitches about 4 years ago. In every single one the central theme was the same – “Blockchain is going to save the music business and allow artists to charge a fair price again.” I’ve heard so many similar claims that now whenever I see blockchain mentioned in a pitch I […]
Continue reading15 Top Google Page Ranking Factors For 2020
If you have a website (I hope you do) displaying your musical wares, you want it to rank high in a Google search. But page ranking requires site optimization in order to get the utmost attention from all search engines. Since Google is the big dog in search by far, if you get the SEO […]
Continue readingThis Example Shows How Much It Costs To Get Radio Airplay
We’ve all heard of payola where radio DJs or program directors get paid in order to ensure they’ll play a song on their station. When it happens, it’s all done under the table, but one station in California actually has a program with an F.A.Q. that directly states the prices for airplay and an interview. […]
Continue readingSpotify Losing Market Value, Producers Working For Free, And Agent Bruce Houghton On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Bruce Houghton, who started his boutique Skyline Artists Agency more than 25 year ago. The agency now grown to offices in Los Angeles, Nashville, New England, Virginia, Florida and St.Louis, and serves 60 diverse artists that include Roger McGuinn, Poco, Atlanta Rhythm Section, The Motels, Freddie McGregor Zoe Keating, Darlingside, […]
Continue readingGoogle Will Link Searchers to Key Moments Within Videos
Here’s a new feature that’s being rolled out by Google that could change a lot of video searches. The search engine will now link users to specific key moments within a YouTube video as an answer to their search query. Google explains it this way: “When you search for things like how-to videos that have […]
Continue readingThe RIAA Releases Its “Notorious” Copyright Offenders List
Copyright is at the heart of every artist and songwriter’s ability to make money, so any time that’s violated it’s taking food out of their mouths. Of course, this applies to record labels as well, which is why the RIAA submits a list of “Notorious” copyright offenders every year to the United States Trade Representative’s […]
Continue reading10 Types Of Social Media Posts That Lead To Engagement
When it comes to social media, large follower and friend numbers are okay, but engagement is where it’s at. Likes, comments and shares are the way to go in order to measure how well your posts are resonating with your audience, but how can we get more? There are actually 10 types of social media […]
Continue readingOnline Content Getting Shorter, New SSDs, and L-Acoustics Scott Sugden On My Latest Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Scott Sugden, who started as a live systems engineer for bands like Van Halen and The Steve Miller Band to theater productions like Spamalot and The Producers before specializing in large format sound system design for festivals. He initially came to L-Acoustics as application support and education engineer, which led into a product role […]
Continue readingPop Is Still The #1 Music Genre Worldwide
The IFPI has come out with its annual Music Listening 2019 report, a look at how recorded music is enjoyed around the world. The study included demographically representative samples of the online population aged 16-64 in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, […]
Continue readingDolby Atmos Music Coming To Amazon Streaming
We finally know where all that immersive audio content that Dolby has been collecting from Universal Music Group is going to end up. The company announced its partnership with Amazon Music to distribute the Atmos Music format on that company’s high end HD tier. Engineers have been working 24/7 at UMG studios all over the […]
Continue readingWhat Is An Instagram Verification Badge?
Many Instagram users have probably seen an account with a blue check badge next to a user’s name during a search and wondered what it was. That’s a verification badge designed to help people easily find public figures, celebrities and brands they want to follow. A verified badge means that Instagram has confirmed that an […]
Continue readingFacebook Adding New Video Publishing Tools
Facebook just announced a number of new video publishing tools at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam this week that should make artists happy. These include updates to Facebook Live and Creator Studio, and a new tool called Watch Party. New Facebook Live Features There are 3 new features being added to Facebook Live […]
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