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With Teeth: Spotify & Direct-to-Fan could be a perfect partnership
Whilst mulling the latest Spotify story, this time of Paul McCartney’s streaming services takedown, I got to thinking about just how great a role direct-to-fan (D2F) services could play in broadening...
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With Teeth: Introducing The Tour Scrapbook
This week I thought I would put my money where my mouth is and write about something I have developed with Martyn Davies of Six Two Productions. Anyone reading this column knows that an ongoing bugbear...
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With Teeth: In Praise of Live Nation Labs
Ever since Live Nation snapped up Big Champagne I’ve been following their movements to see how this story would to develop. Its been incredibly interesting too: having brought in Eric Garland and his...
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With Teeth: Should YouTube Be Your Primary Social Media Presence?
For at least 2 years now accepted wisdom has been that the second most important place a band should focus on (after their own website of course) is their Facebook Page. Like many I’ve focussed on...
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With Teeth: Spotify Player, WordPress and the need for open source in music
Upon reading Spotify’s news of their embeddable player yesterday I must admit that I was initially really excited by the concept. After all, Spotify has aspirations to become “the OS of music” and on...
View ArticleWith Teeth: My Viral Marketing Presentation for Generator/Music Ally
On March 27th I attended a Generator/Music Ally “Music Futures” event, looking at viral marketing. Two presentations were made; the first by Ste and Drew from Powster, the second by me. Ste and Drew...
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With Teeth: Reactions from Twitter to Spotify’s Branded Apps
Today Spotify announced that it was to launch branded apps in conjunction with Coca-Cola, Reebok, McDonald’s, Intel and AT&T. So, I thought I’d gauge intial response from my followers on Twitter....
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SANDBOX special: Facebook Listen button – the digital music marketer’s viewpoint
Sandbox caught up with five digital marketers within music to get their thoughts on the subject. They were Aaron Bogucki, senior digital manager, Polydor Records; David Emery, head of marketing,...
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With Teeth: I’d Missed This Excellent Feature of Facebook’s “Listen” Function
I was using Facebook earlier and realised something I’m not sure has been widely mentioned before now. As well as adding a “Listen” button to Fan Pages, Facebook further extends this when you browse...
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With Teeth: Rdio, Spotify and the perils of user experience
For the last few weeks I’ve been using Rdio and of late something has become clear: I am now using it far, far more than Spotify, to which I am also a Premium Subscriber. Why? Because as a user...
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With Teeth: Investigating Facebook’s new “share music” feature
Yesterday TheNextWeb reported that Facebook is rolling out a new “Share Music” button to your status update box which, when clicked, would allow you to share any song you like to your friends. So how...
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With Teeth: the death of display ads – and what we can do about it
I’ve had a couple of very interesting discussions recently regarding advertising in general, but also with specific reference to music websites. The suggestion from some site owners is that the income...
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With Teeth: Is it time for Spotify’s play counts to be made public?
It’s been interesting reading Grizzly Bear’s thoughts on Spotify over this weekend. One comment that particularly caught my eye was this one: “Not saying that Spotify doesn’t spread the word, but at...
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With Teeth – Streaming services: why aren’t you courting CD and vinyl owners?
Today, Amazon finally launched its Cloud Player service in the UK, France and Germany. Akin to iTunes Match, the core premise of the service is that you can upload your digital music collection into...
View ArticleWith Teeth: Sorry Richard Metzger, but you’re WAY off re: Facebook
Yesterday a post from Richard Metzger over on his excellent Dangerous Minds website started going viral. Entitled “FACEBOOK: I WANT MY FRIENDS BACK”, it ranted about a much-covered topic, namely...
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Sammy Andrews and Darren Hemmings talk social, streams and Kobalt
If you want an opinion or ten on digital music marketing, you could do worse than start with Sammy Andrews or Darren Hemmings. Head of digital at label Cooking Vinyl and founder of digital agency...
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Motive Unknown on how artists can take control of remarketing
Labels and managers can use their marketing budgets for artists more efficiently by booking digital ads in-house, and making smart use of remarketing techniques. That’s according to Darren Hemmings of...
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Motive Unknown boss criticises ‘toxic’ working culture
After yesterday’s widely-shared column on wellbeing within the music industry by David Emery, now marketing agency Motive Unknown’s boss Darren Hemmings has posted his own response. “Of all the people...
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With Teeth: Should YouTube Be Your Primary Social Media Presence?
For at least 2 years now accepted wisdom has been that the second most important place a band should focus on (after their own website of course) is their Facebook Page. Like many I’ve focussed on...
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With Teeth: Spotify Player, WordPress and the need for open source in music
Upon reading Spotify’s news of their embeddable player yesterday I must admit that I was initially really excited by the concept. After all, Spotify has aspirations to become “the OS of music” and on...
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