By Ryan Van Etten on 12/08/2010
8 Advantages To Embedding Videos From YouTube OR Vimeo—as opposed to streaming from your own host in a custom player 1. No bandwidth strain or maintenance issues. 2. Visitors get player controls that they’re already used to. 3. Shareability. 4. It works. Everywhere. Always. (plays on iPhone etc.) 5. Easy as f*** to implement (copy [...]
Posted in Music, Music Flux | Tagged Atari Teenage Riot, best practices, embedding, Fusion, Fusion 2010, Google, live music, music web design, shareability, social media, social music, stats, syndication, tips, traffic, Tube Mogul, UK, usability, UX, video, video player, Vimeo, web design, YouTube |
By Ryan Van Etten on 07/27/2010
Mr. Owl, How many clicks does it take to get to the rock n’ roll center of a retail mp3? Let’s find out. A One… A two-HOO…too many! Mr. Owl just BitTorrented right in because it was easier than buying it on iTunes. It took less clicks. It took less clicks. Are you testing your fans’ user experience?
Posted in Design, Music, Music Flux | Tagged Ariel Hyatt, clicks to content, consumers, consumption, content, digital sharing, Disc Makers, Eric Garland, fans, free, Futurehit.DNA, Google, iTunes, Jay Frank, Mr. Owl, New Music Seminar, NMS NYC 2010, OneBox, P2P, package deals, ripping and burning, strategy, streaming, tips, Tom Silverman, Tony Van Veen, UX, What I Learned at NMS10 |
By Ryan Van Etten on 07/26/2010
10 seconds to engage someone. 10 seconds to impress them. In his research for Futurehit.DNA, Jay Frank discovered an impressive trend: Shorter song intros lead to better sales. “2/3 of bestselling songs have an intro that’s less than 7 seconds.” The average intro length for Top 25 songs is 6.6 seconds. “You really have 10 seconds to engage people.”
Posted in Music, Music Flux, News, Popular | Tagged 7 seconds, Ariel Hyatt, attention, attention span, business, consumption, don't make obstacles, engagement, Eric Garland, first impressions, Futurehit.DNA, Google, Gwen Lipsky, impact, Jay Frank, marketing, Mike Doernberg, monetization, MusicBiz, New Music Seminar, NMS NYC 2010, obscurity, people, Ralph Simon, ReverbNation, SEO, song intros, tips, What I Learned at NMS10 |
By Ryan Van Etten on 06/03/2010
In the sea of music blogs, best means most relevant to the reader. How can bands or listeners find blogs in their genre? How can they find blogs in a specific city? Google is an obvious search tool for most topics, but to really get in the trenches and find smaller indie blogs, here are five super-effective search techniques. Includes live music photos.
Posted in Music, Music Flux, News, Popular | Tagged blog aggregators, bloggers, Cymbals Eats Guitars, Delicious, Elbo.ws, genres, Google, Hype Machine, indie, Japandroids, last.fm, live music, location, music blog search, music bloggers, MusicBiz, No Age, noise pop, photos, resources, rock/pop, search relevance, search trends, similar artists, social media, stumbleupon, tips, Titus Andronicus, Twitter |
![Facebook More Traffic Than Google [Stats]](http://img.virtualmusic.tv/thumbs/facebook-friendwheel_jahw.png)
By Ryan Van Etten on 04/27/2010
Here’s some graphical perspective on Facebook’s growth via estimated traffic data from Quantcast and Compete. The numbers are significantly different between the sources but the basic trend and relative traffic difference between Facebook and Google is evident: Facebook is a rocket, or, rather a full-blown planet with enough gravity to start a galaxy—the data shows it surpassed Google in traffic in late 2009.
Posted in Infoculture, News, Visual | Tagged comparison, compete, data, Facebook, Facebook growth, Facebook vs. Google, Google, graph, open, quantcast, social media, stats, traffic, trends, visualization |
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/11/2010
Dubbed musicblogocide2k10 Google deleted at least six known music blogs from its Blogger platform. Google posted an official response highlighting their current procedures for handling DMCA complaints that were last updated last summer—Google implies that they warn offending bloggers but cite difficulty contacting offenders in the past. They also include the link for filing a DMCA counter claim.
Posted in Activism, Discussion, Editorial, Infoculture, Media/Journalism, Music, News | Tagged backup, bandcamp, blog shutdowns, blogger, bloggers, blogging, blogspot, change, copyright law, Creative Commons, digital, DMCA, domains, dreamhost, DRM, EFF, embedding, export, Google, Grooveshark, hosting, how to, import, internet, jamendo, legal, musicblogocide, musicblogocide2k10, platform, posterous, promo code, resources, rights, SoundCloud, squarespace, tips, transfer, transferring, tumblr, widgets, WordPress, writers, YouTube |
By Ryan Van Etten on 12/08/2009
The major labels’ new video site Vevo is due to launch tonight. A potential upside is that Vevo’s backend is powered by Google and YouTube technology, which may make it easier to integrate social features. It might also fuse somehow with the Google music search. The potential downside is that it could be fueled by greed more than music.
Posted in Discussion, Music, Music Flux, News | Tagged Abu Dhabi Media, advertising, CBS Radio, content, deals, EMI, entertainment, Fatboy Slim, Google, last.fm, launch, major labels, media, money, music industry, music sites, partnerships, Sony, streaming, Universal, veto or viva, Vevo, video, YouTube |
By Ryan Van Etten on 11/13/2009
If you often use Google to lookup artists then you’ve no doubt already seen the new Google Music Search that includes playable audio right in the search results. The streaming audio is served via iLike or Lala. Links to other streaming music sites are shown as well—namely Rhapsody, Pandora, Imeem, and Lala.
Posted in Discussion, Music, Music Flux | Tagged crowdsourcing, data, Google, iLike, Imeem, information, integration, iTunes, Lala, media, music industry, MusicBiz, MySpace, OneBox, pandora, Rhapsody, search, social music, streaming, The Cardigans, trends, Wikipedia, YouTube |
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