Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Feb 9, 2012, 5:21 am
Audio equipment company Behringer left a mushroom cloud in its wake at last month’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with the unveiling of its latest iPod docking station, the iNuke Boom. Spot the iPod! Image credit: cultofmac.com The docking station, the world’s loudest, unveiled...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Feb 8, 2012, 4:03 pm
More musicians are realizing just how important videos are to the success of their marketing campaigns. People love watching not only music videos, but also behind-the-scenes, live recordings, or album promos. However, most artists still don’t know how to properly optimize their videos. Here are ...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Feb 7, 2012, 9:49 am
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Feb 5, 2012, 11:55 pm
Against the backdrop of the SOPA and PIPA debacle, the music industry, and no doubt several of our readers, inevitably overlooked a Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) blog post that sheds light on the trade organization’s policies. Writing on the RIAA’s Music Notes blog, RIAA Vice...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Feb 1, 2012, 3:43 pm
Plattsburgh, NY, February 1, 2012 – Dotted Music LLC (Dotted Music) is very pleased to announce the launch of its online music marketing services. Now, all members of the music industry can benefit from a one-stop marketing agency that dynamically creates an array of highly personalized music mark...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Jan 31, 2012, 4:47 pm
... SoundCloud is now officially represented on Webdoc through a drag-and-drop widget. This allows users to incorporate SoundCloud tracks in their Webdocs, played ... go on sale. Performing musicians can now insert the new Songkick widget in to their Webdocs to sell tickets to their gigs and .....
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Jan 30, 2012, 2:08 pm
Music licensing company act as mentor for talented artists helping them bond with the leading music brands from across the world. The best is that these licensing companies assist artists in finding a bigger and stronger platform to showcase their potential. Many of you are lured by the idea of gain...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Jan 25, 2012, 6:04 pm
Your band needs reviews. Your band needs to appear on reviews sites. The independent musician of today is going to need to be dependent on press, reviews, interviews and stories on everything from real magazines to web magazines, review sites to reviewer blogs and everywhere in between. I see a goo...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Jan 23, 2012, 12:51 pm
SoundCloud today announced it has reached 10 million registered users. The company had an increase of over seven million users since January 2011, and will see one million new members joining in January. Pretty exciting, isn’t it? Soundcloud To celebrate the milestone, SoundCloud has created ‘...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 31, 2011, 3:41 pm
Spotify is the latest music platform that delivers a multitude of various genres of music, and does so at a considerably low rate. In fact for the first six months of usage, your Spotify account can be used for free. While this doesn’t get you everything that a premium service has you can build pl...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 28, 2011, 4:28 pm
... and honour that commitment with the brand.” – Spee Chalkiotis of Neverest Don’t ... and the Backstreet Boys – aligned themselves with PF Flyers and Lucky Brand Jeans in order combat the war ... to start out as an independent brand. The bands really help us ... usually so excited ...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 25, 2011, 9:42 pm
Florence and the Machine’s second album, Ceremonials, has been launched at a sold-out gig at Hackney Empire, London. Launching an album in a live setting is a fairly standard approach to things, but don’t misconstrue this as an argument for traditional promotional techniques: this is very mu...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 24, 2011, 1:55 pm
It takes more than a swipe of your debit card to send that million-dollar hit to the masses. After all of the recording sessions, promotional expenses, and pit stops on tour, the only break you get to look forward to is that guitar malfunction. An oft-applied method of relieving some financial hard...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 19, 2011, 12:54 pm
It is nigh on impossible to talk about music and videogames without mentioning rhythm music games. If you are at a loss as to what I’m talking about, the games I’m talking about are those like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Although not the first of its kind, Guitar Hero definitely rose to fame fir...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 18, 2011, 9:08 am
To promote the issue of Secret Codes & Battleships – which arrives in standard format on October 24th in the UK through Powdered Sugar Records (with distribution from EMI Records) – multi-platinum artist and erstwhile vocalist of Savage Garden Darren Hayes launched a special promotion: a scaveng...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 16, 2011, 1:50 pm
Following two extremely successful albums (1997′s Savage Garden and 1999′s Affirmation) as a part of duo Savage Garden as well as three solo albums (2002′s Spin, 2004′s The Tension And The Spark and 2007′s This Delicate Thing We Made) multi-platinum artist Darren Hayes issues Secret Codes ...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 15, 2011, 3:14 am
In honor of Halloween, I’ll feature a darker side of fashion, a side that’s happily embraced by the hardcore musicians. A tad grim? Maybe, but how else do rockers expect to be taken seriously? Don’t worry, I won’t be featuring anything involving bat’s heads bitten off. Scary Fashion Skel...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 13, 2011, 7:20 pm
Today’s recommended video content is perhaps more subtle than yesterday’s post about Burberry’s latest advertising campaign for the fashion house’s new Body fragrance. The video, itself, is over two years old, but should still be considered very carefully as evidence for the long-standing b...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 12, 2011, 8:23 pm
British luxury fashion house Burberry has been making headlines of late for recruiting English pop band, The Feeling to re-record the band’s song Rosé for the release of the fashion favourite’s latest fragrance: Body. With Rosie Huntington-Whiteley already selected as the face (and body) of Bo...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 11, 2011, 2:39 pm
... have a difficult time deciding what guitar exercises to practice despite sifting ... possible. The first significant mistake that guitar players make with regards to ... objective in mind. Mindlessly playing through guitar finger exercises will not make ... : Identify (in specific terms) y...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 6, 2011, 9:24 am
Steve Jobs died last night aged 56. Here, we remember why the death of the legendary founder of Apple marks the end of an era. He turned Apple from a garage startup to the most valued company in the world, and convinced everyone that technology could be desirable. It changed technology forever. As...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 5, 2011, 2:45 pm
The Death Knell has long been sounded for the conventional music industry. In the early 21st century the introduction of music file sharing with services like Napster sent the music industry big-wigs into crisis mode as they desperately tried to cling to their traditional stranglehold on music distr...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Oct 3, 2011, 1:54 pm
Facebook marketing is no longer about the mere maintenance of your band’s Facebook page since Facebook’s release of Facebook Music and their announcement of f8 partnerships with Spotify, MOG, VEVO, Soundcloud, Turntable, and eleven others. Until now, the reason behind signing up with Facebook h...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Sep 28, 2011, 6:34 pm
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation has announced this year’s nominees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The award, held annually, is considered among the most prestigious in the industry today. Some of rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest names are included in this year’s list of nominees, inc...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Sep 27, 2011, 2:13 pm
In today’s technology age three names come to mind. Those are Facebook, Apple, and Google. All three are powerhouse companies with an enormous amount of users in various countries. Whilst they all cater to different desires, they all have one common thing in mind: dominance. Facebook, the largest...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Sep 21, 2011, 11:53 am
The HMV executive, Simon Fox, told The Sun (via Gigwise) that the CD market will drop from £900 million ($1.4 billion) in 2010 to £300 million ($475 million) in 2014. Image credit: decaens on Tumblr He believes his retail chain, famous for it’s logo of a dog peering into a gramophone, will fin...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Sep 19, 2011, 1:05 pm
The importance of videogames to the music industry is often underplayed, seldom registered by fans of both industries. Much work goes into making a videogame into a final product ready for mass consumption, but some aspects are never really thought about when people are enjoying the result. LA Noire...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Sep 17, 2011, 8:42 am
And just like that, fall is upon us! It’s time to exercise the trend that male musicians do best – layering. That means jackets, hoodies, flannel shirts, and leather are piled on top of classic band shirts and tees. When cool weather sets in, great accessories like hats and scarves come out of t...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Sep 14, 2011, 6:55 pm
BMG Rights Management (BMG) has announced the acquisition of the distribution company, Bug Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiary, Bug Music, Inc. (Bug Music) for a reported $300 million. The Financial Times reported that the acquisition magnifies BMG’s position in the race to buy EMI from Citigroup, ...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Sep 12, 2011, 2:33 pm
Merch can be the money-maker for a new band trying to break into new markets by touring new areas – they tend to pay less for unknown commodities such as bands who are new to their town – and of course are the hot commodity for any big act, from Justin Bieber to Metallica. If it’s going to be ...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Sep 9, 2011, 6:57 pm
Google’s latest progress report on copyright protection has drawn a positive response from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after Google’s Public Policy Blog reported ‘considerable progress’ in tackling online copyright infringement. Google’s announcement via its Publi...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Sep 6, 2011, 3:23 pm
As we all know the music industry has changed a lot from the days of simply selling CDs to make a living: bands have to tour and bring the live experience to the fans and potential new fans; selling themselves, their show and of course their merch to make ends meet. However, getting merch made ofte...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Sep 2, 2011, 7:31 pm
A digital research company has published data showing significant presence of the Big Four record labels on youtube. comScore: Leading Digital Market Research Data published by comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in digital market research, shows youtube as an increasingly important market fo...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 30, 2011, 4:20 pm
As we reported in our weekly newsletter a week ago, MySpace’s new owner Specific Media had made a claim to relaunch the social media mammoth in 2011, focusing solely on music this time. The company’s new marketing head Al Dejewski even mentioned they are going to compete against the likes of Spo...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 26, 2011, 12:12 pm
New York City band PUi is preparing a live campaign in order to be filmed for their new music video for the single “Army Of Slaves,” being re-recorded specifically for the video. The cool part is that the band is making it up to the fans to direct their music video. PUi will perform a currently...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 24, 2011, 7:44 am
In the first post in this series, Mobile Music App Revenue & Predictions, we talked about how apps, streaming and ringtones were earning the mobile industry more than $15 billion in 2011, according to stats published by Midem. With revenue in 2014 predicted to be more than $25 billion, we decided t...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 19, 2011, 9:58 pm
Kings of Leon frontman, Caleb Followill, has cut the tour short for the rest of the boys due to exhaustion. That means the rest of the US tour is over for the year and they’ve had to refund all the tickets. Whether it’s “exhaustion” or some bigger problem, as suggested via Twitter, the grou...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 18, 2011, 8:54 pm
Vervedeck, a leading tech-driven music marketing company, has announced the launch of RhymbaLatino – a promotional music store containing nearly 170,000 pre-licensed songs for the Hispanic audience. With consumer expenditure on Latin-based music on the rise, RhymbaLatino aims to target the demogr...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 17, 2011, 2:21 pm
As you might have heard already, Chevrolet Sonic has teamed up with Spotify to bring those of you who live in the US music in a whole new way. Dotted Music has a number of free invites, and is giving them away! NOTE: We have run out of invites, but you can request one at this location! Be the first...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 16, 2011, 4:01 pm
Onesheet, the service that helps musicians set up a branded web presence in minutes, is celebrating its one-month birthday with some pretty big milestones. Today, the company announced that over 10,000 artists/musicians/DJs had signed up for the service in the first month. The company attributes th...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 12, 2011, 9:34 pm
Earlier this month Universal Media Group (UMG) announced the launch of Digster, a music playlist service intended to bring Spotify and VEVO to life. Digster: Revolutionary? UMG’s recent drive to increase its web presence is not unnoticed by the online community, and after last month’s deal wi...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 10, 2011, 11:33 am
The surge in mobile music apps has been significant. But how much are they earning the music business, and what will change in five years? It’s easy to understate the cultural effect of the mobile app market since Apple’s game-changing App Store launch in 2008. But a new Midem report outlines h...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 8, 2011, 2:00 pm
Technology exponentially increases, and that’s a topic we are always looking forward to covering at Dotted Music. One of the hottest new platforms on the market is a company called HAULIX, which is a platform for receiving promotional material at ease (mostly made for journalists and radio djs). ...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 6, 2011, 2:15 pm
So you’ve heard of Google+ and may or may not have gotten an invite. Word on the marketer’s grape vine is that Google+ is looking to be the next social media marketing powerhouse. So why, as a band, musician, label, or marketer, should you care? To grasp an idea about the impact of Google+ amon...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 4, 2011, 6:06 pm
The recent news that the world’s leading music company Universal Music Group (UMG) and social crowdsourcing platform Talenthouse are to enter a partnership is the latest in the Big Four’s utilisation of social networking for promotional purposes. Talenthouse provides a modern approach to music ...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 3, 2011, 2:27 pm
The Dotted Music crew is back from a trip to Berlin, where it was filming a segment of our brand new documentary film. The visit to Germany’s capital, known as a mecca for musicians from all around the world, was extremely fruitful – we brought home interviews with representatives of Universal, ...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Aug 2, 2011, 6:39 am
Duplication and Replication are two terms which you’ve almost certainly heard bandied about before, but what exactly is duplication and what exactly is replication? And what’s the difference between the two?! The answer to this question, is that CD duplication and CD replication are two separat...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Jul 27, 2011, 3:49 am
Most bands maintain a social media account, but the profile is a billboard for their own accomplishments and updates for those fans that are tuning in… It’s always a benefit to both your band and your fans to give back to the very collective who are the very reason for your existence and success...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Jul 24, 2011, 8:27 am
This is both an announcement and the beginning of one hell of a long project – an adventure. In fact, this might be the sickest Dotted Music adventure to date, and I’m inviting you to join us on the ride: we are filming a documentary on the music business. “Ear Pleasing Noise” (the project�...
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Andrew Apanov posted an article on Dotted Music - Jul 20, 2011, 1:12 pm
Social media, social media. You’ve talked to your friends, band mates and managers and were convinced to create a Facebook, Bandcamp, Twitter and Myspace page, but you’re not quite the social media maven and have not quite deciphered the clockwork that makes social media work so important. At th...
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