industry pros

RSS

The Green Room

TiVo and YouTube Join Forces


Now if you have Tivo, The New York Times reports you will be able to watch your favorite YouTube videos on TV. Every advancement that brings so called "non-traditional" media to the broader public changes the entire landscape and further fragments the audience. This is, per se, neither good nor ...

Author: Voltaire

One Big Happy Family?


There seem to be a lot of folks taking cheap shots at people in the music industry lately.  We're sometimes characterized as lazy, drug induced sex-a-holics (will some things never change?).  While there are problems within our musical family, I"m still a big fan and I feel very blessed to ...

Author: lvanhook

DVR’s vs. VOD


ABC recently announced it would offer viewers video on demand of some of their hit shows like “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives,” only without the capability to fast forward through the commercials. ABC is doing this in an effort to combat DVR usage. ABC has reported that testing of the product ...

Author: cbisson

What the #%&$! is Seth Godin doing talking about the Music Biz?


So why does this dude Seth Godin think he can write about the music biz? Big deal... he is a author that sells books...and he has worked in the advertising world.... He has never worked for any record label....nor has he EVER worked: a) at a real record store b) ...

Author: Ty Braswell

Hello Tunejar


I am very excited to be part of this ground breaking media event. Change is the one constant we can always count on in this industry. Those who are able to predict, or better yet influence the direction of this constant state of change will prosper while those who resist ...

Author: Bill Churchville

It was hard.


It was 1986. I was in 7th grade. And the shitty record stores where I lived in Iowa didn't carry the Dead Milkmen or the Violent Femmes. From then on, finding the music I wanted hear became a quest. Whatever kind of person you are, whatever you're feeling, whatever you're ...

Author: Seth Perisho

State of recording music for films, Television, commercials and records


Times are moving faster then we can all even keep track of. Here in LA (supposedly the recording center of the world), recording music for films, TV, commercials and records has undergone huge changes as far as how projects get recorded from the beginning to the end. There is still ...

Author: Chris Tedesco

So What is iBand?


New ideas of how to use your iPhone abound. These musicians use it to make videos of their band. Three art students from Austria have hacked into their iPhones and loaded them with music-playing software, which they have used to record songs. The videos they put on YouTube last month ...

Author: Voltaire

Marketing in Video Games


How much is too much? Recently, I have been in discussions with PR agencies about in game marketing. Since that space is becoming prime real estate for advertising it begs the question, "How much is too much?" Part of the reason gamers play games is so they can escape the ...

Author: dbrandon

The Power of Music


Music was a large part of my life, way before I began looking at it from the perspective that now drives my business, "branding." When I was a kid in high school, I would bum food off my friends, so I could save my lunch money to buy a new ...

Author: jmartin

Advertisement