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MySpace Disables Auto-Play Feature

Lior Shamir — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:46:42 +0000

MySpace disabled its auto-play feature last month in a bid to save $10m/month in streaming fees. Next Big Sound reported on the impact this move has had on the number of overall plays on the site and, interestingly, how “the number of streams MySpace reports is no longer inflated by auto-play and is more directly impacted by true fans listening to their favorite songs.”

iLike

Lior Shamir — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:45:49 +0000

iLike, the hugely successful consumer-facing extension of the not-so-hugely-successful indie artist community, GarageBand, announced its further investment in self-promoting artist tools for iLike registered artists, specifically the marketing and syndication of music and music-related collateral across several social networks. The 300,000 member iLike artist community will now be able to automate their feeds to Twitter, synchronize their YouTube channels to their iLike accounts, add an ‘up-selling’ widget to their MySpace concert listing, and include an iLike ‘music tab’ to their Facebook profile… and this is just the very tip of the ice-cream: iPhone apps, content syndication tools, premium artist stats, own web-domain management and many more flavours.

iLike is a powerhouse, catering to 45 million music fans across its network. This investiture will undoubtedly put some pressure on small players such as BandMetrics and RockDex who focus on statistics for artists, and ArtistData who focus on content syndication, to offer value features that iLike can’t or simply chooses not to. And in spite of ReverbNation’s exponential growth and market lead on the indie artist front, iLike enjoys an unmistakable advantage: primed access to consumers en mass.

Bandcamp Stats

Lior Shamir — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:14:30 +0000

Bandstats. I don’t care what it’s for. I just wanna play with it. Gimme.

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