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| Jun 16, 2021 | Topspin Consumer Partners Closes Oversubscribed Fund II at Hard Cap of $205 million | |
| Aug 15, 2012 | Artists.MTV, Where Musicians Claim Their MTV Profiles, Enters Public Beta | MTV is opening its new Artists.MTV website in public beta today.
The site was first announced at South by Southwest as a “pro-artist initiative” that allows musicians to “take control of their MTV presence.” It’s basically a collection of 1... |
| Nov 17, 2011 | FanBridge’s New Facebook Brand Page Omni-App Combines Functionality From 12 Partners | Facebook Pages can host as many applications as they want, but unfortunately, most visitors never click away from the single default landing tab. To let its brand and band clients offer ecommerce, crowdfunding, music, video, and ticketing a... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | Keen On… How The Culture Business Can Fight Back Against Digital Parasites (TCTV) | If, like the author of Free Ride, Robert Levine, you believe that digital parasites are destroying the culture business, then the time has come for a major counterattack against both piracy and the free culture movement. Thus, as Levine tol... |
| Oct 17, 2011 | YouTube adds “Merch Store” feature to let musicians hawk T-shirts, tickets | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
YouTube is going to let musicians sell merchandis... |
| Oct 17, 2011 | YouTube adds “Merch Store” feature to let musicians hawk T-shirts, tickets | YouTube is going to let musicians sell merchandise, tickets and more on the site, the company announced on its blog yesterday.
Giving fans the ability to purchase things via the YouTube platform transforms the site from being just a place t... |
| Oct 12, 2011 | Announcing Step2 — Our New Platform For Helping Creators Succeed | Today we’re extremely excited to announce the launch of Step2, our discussion platform for helping creators, fans, techies, business folks and anyone else work together to help creators figure out ways to better succeed with their efforts. ... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | Kevin Smith Shows The Importance Of Building A Brand As A Part Of CwF+RtB | For quite some time, we’ve used Kevin Smith as an interesting example of someone who seems to really grasp the whole CwF+RtB (Connect with Fans + Reason to Buy) concept that we focus on in explaining how to create success models (not just “... |
| Apr 22, 2011 | We May Have Unbundled The Music… But We've Smartly Bundled The Music Experience | Ian Rogers, from Topspin, has an absolutely fantastic blog post on the question of “unbundling” and “rebundling,” in the music business. What kicked it off was David Pakman’s writeup about how unbundling the album into songs that can be pur... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | How to Find Your Most Important Fans | Word of mouth is an incredibly powerful marketing tool, but how do you work out which customers are most important in spreading your message? Services like PeerIndex or Klout help you find experts and influencers in particular communities, ... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Social Media Use Cases: Arcade Fire | Tomorrow the band Arcade Fire releases their new album, The Suburbs. It’s interesting to look at how a popular band of today utilizes the Web to release and promote a new album.
Is the band using Facebook more than MySpace now? Do they use ... |
| Feb 9, 2010 | Some More Data On How CwF + RtB Is Working In The Music Space | While we keep presenting details of CwF+RtB working for various musicians, big, medium and small, some have complained that there needs to be more data to demonstrate that these kinds of business models can work. So, here we go. I briefly g... |
| Nov 2, 2009 | MobBase: Drag and Drop iPhone App Maker for Bands | When most of us hear the words, “For as little as 50 cents a day…” our brains conjure up solemn images of Sally Struthers. For as little as 50 cents a day MixMatchMusic is offering starving and made musicians a chance to reach their fans vi... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | Four Rules For Music Business Success | The Topspin blog has a story of one of the bands they’ve worked with, a lesser known act called Fanfarlo, that was able to reach some specific goals in promoting itself and building up its fan base, while getting many to commit to paying. F... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | Facebook Fund REV Graduation Day: Backlight, Thread and More | After a summer of hard work, Facebook’s 24 fbFund REV incubator companies presented their products to a room full of investors, entrepreneurs and journalists. Created by Accel Partners and Founders Fund, the fbFund REV program is meant to f... |
| Aug 4, 2009 | Yet Another Music Business Model: Label Signs With A Band | One of our regular critics here claims that part of what I talk about is killing off the record labels. Nothing is further from the truth, of course. I’ve spoken repeatedly about how I think there’s still a tremendous space for smart record... |
| May 19, 2009 | Last Chance For The Old Recording Industry… But Plenty Of Excitement In The New Music Industry | I spent Monday at the wonderful SanFran MusicTech Summit and I have to admit that I came away quite optimistic. You may recall earlier this year that my takeaway from MidemNet was how optimistic people were becoming — but how much the old s... |
| May 6, 2009 | You Can't Predict What Will Drive Music Business Models… So Be Open To Everything | Topspin CEO Ian Rogers has a great post detailing how (contrary to his own beliefs) Twitter appears to be quickly becoming a very powerful channel for promoting music and playing into music business models. He gives two examples of how Twit... |
| Apr 8, 2009 | Amazon and others follow iTunes' lead in hiking MP3 prices | Take it as a sign that the digital music industry is finally reaching maturity. The labels that once clamped down on digital distribution with absolute prejudice have generally loosened up, allowing DRM-free distribution to flourish. Now, t... |
| Apr 3, 2009 | Bands That Take Selling Seriously | We recently wrote about how bands are (successfully) experimenting with different models to sell more merchandise at shows, and Ian Rogers of Topspin (who I also — finally — got to meet at the Leadership Music Digital Summit) writes about t... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | Riders of the next wave in music: Topspin Media | A moderately powerful computer and some choice bits of software can effectively replace dozens of individuals formerly integral to the music recording and mastering process. Multi-million dollar studios have been replaced by laptops with an... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Congratulations To the Crunchies Winners; Facebook Takes Top Prize For Second Year | The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn’t attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are bel... |
| Dec 29, 2008 | What Was The Best Of The Web in 2008? A Voter's Guide For The Crunchies. | Last night we released the finalist names for the Crunchies Awards. Vote here for who you think should win. We’ve set up a site that is pretty self-explanatory, with all of the names of each finalist for every category, along with links to ... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Ian Rogers On The Death Of The Music CD Business: "I Don't Care." | We’ve written a lot about the death of the recorded music business, but in a keynote address to a music industry conference a couple weeks ago Topspin CEO Ian Rogers sketches out a different future. Rogers, the former head of Yahoo Music, c... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Dear Recording Industry: Stop Whining, Start Making Money | In the past we’ve linked to some of Ian Rogers great presentations at music industry conferences, and now he’s done it again. At a recent music industry conference, he told the assembled industry execs to basically stop whining about “losse... |
| Oct 8, 2008 | Amidst the cacophony of music start-ups, ReverbNation echoes | While grinning investment bankers, safe pension funds and good returns from tech stocks may be hard to come by for the foreseeable future, the world does not lack start-ups promising to help indie musicians. Among them, ReverbNation, which ... |
| Oct 7, 2008 | LP33.tv launches the underground’s answer to MySpace Music | Today, LP33.tv, the company formerly known as MyAWOL, goes live with its intensely ambitious site for unsigned musicians. The site centers around a video player that features original music videos, short band documentaries and news clips, a... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | Future of Online Music – Industry Players Discuss | In yesterday’s episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, our topic was online music and we had 3 very special guests on the show: Dalton Caldwell, founder and CEO of Imeem; Lucas Gonze, founder of Webjay and until recently a senior member... |
| Jul 10, 2008 | MyAWOL, a music company that grasps reality | Remember the days when MTV actually centered its content around music? When there was less Real World and Carson Daly and more music videos and MTV news breaks with Kurt Loder? If you don’t, you’ll have to take my word for it: For those tha... |
| Jun 24, 2008 | The New Music Business: Enabling Musicians To Take Advantage Of New Business Models | It seems that whenever we write about various bands embracing new business models, one of the criticisms raised is this idea that we’re somehow expecting musicians to also become businessmen to embrace these new models. Nothing could be fur... |
| Jun 20, 2008 | Ex-Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers Launches Topspin Media | Ian Rogers, the former GM of Yahoo Music, has finally taken music startup TopSpin Media out of stealth mode. The new company will offer a marketing software platform for music artists to maximize their fanbase and brand exposure.
Rogers, wh... |
| Apr 3, 2008 | Head of Yahoo Music Ian Rogers departs for music startup | Ian Rogers, who pushed the music industry to drop DRM, is resigning as general manager for Yahoo Music to take the helm at a new startup called Topspin Media, which calls itself "the future of digital artist services."
Rogers, tho... |
| Apr 2, 2008 | Yahoo Loses Its Musical Soul | Yahoo Music Vice President Ian Rogers has resigned to join a new stealth music startup called Topspin Media as CEO.
This is a blow to Yahoo – Rogers is one of the few music industry insiders who have a clear vision for what the future of mu... |