I am at www2012 conference and after the keynote by Neelie Kroes there was a panel discussion with her, Tim Berners Lee and Gille Babinet. The discussion was about the question “Weather access to an open internet should be a human right?” Clearly knowing where I am standing on this issue (yes it should be!) …
Tag: mp3 downloads
Question by Filip Stilin (House on Mars): What do you think of Bandcamp?
Filip Stilin is the frontman of House on Mars a promesing young croation band (check out their music on bandcamp). He loves music and online marketing so he read my blog and sent me and email with a couple of interesting observations and questions. I got his permission to publish parts of his mail and …
First Youtube DVD online for Ballads n Bullets by In Legend
Recently I was rather quiet in my blog. Currently I am writing my first research paper for SIGMOD which takes 90% of my resources. In my very limited time I had the chance to work on a very cool web project about which I want to share some insights and talk about today. Inspired by …
band website search engine optimization – backstagepass!
As everyone knows I am doing quite a lot search engine optimization for my band In Legend. After the new records Ballads and Bullets has been released last friday and I had already optimized the website so it would rank #1 for lyric search and also quite well if people search for illegal downloads. Now …
Youtube Music video – The perfect Band website: part 3
Of course your band’s website is not youtube! So you might ask what youtube has to do with my series about the perfect band website. If you are a musician and you want to survive on the Internet you have to have a music video running on youtube. As with all the other online products …
Share your Music! but do it the right way!
In this article I explain how a music band in my opinion should react to all those illegal downloads on the Internet. First of all it is important to understand that no one will be able to change the people and make them stop downloading music on the Web and start buying records again. After Napster went down people found new ways of sharing music. So the question is not: “How to fight illegal downloads?” but rather “How to make the best out of them?”
Why online music marketing and what is it?
It was not the internet that brought problems to music industry but rather the way the industry reacted to the rapid changes. I believe the internet (including the ways useres found to share mp3’s) is one of the biggest gifts musicians could get because the possibilities to increase direct marketing and customer relation management are almost infinite.