December 12th, 2012 by Music Ally

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In our final Sandbox issue of the year we dissect 20 of the best digital marketing campaigns of 2012. Covering pop, rock, dance, classical, hip-hop and world, it's a broad sweep of genres and an equally...

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November 28th, 2012 by Music Ally

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We look instead at the other music-based apps sitting on the social network's platform, assessing how they are benefitting (or not) from the partnership and how they are helping the music business (or...

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November 22nd, 2012 by Music Ally

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Artists with an Instagram account now have a new way to promote it: badges that can be embedded on websites and blogs.

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November 20th, 2012 by Music Ally

Social media marketing firm theAudience has raised $20m of funding.

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November 14th, 2012 by Rob MacAllister

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Carly Rae Jepsen is one artist who has definitely benefitted from the power of YouTube. To capitalise on this UMG have released an interactive CRJ game.

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November 14th, 2012 by Music Ally

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In an age of social media ubiquity and increasing noise, Pheed is offering a less frenetic and more measured environment that it will charge for access to.

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November 14th, 2012 by Music Ally

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BandPage – formerly known as RootMusic – has taken another step away from its reliance on Facebook, with the launch of BandPage Connect.

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November 8th, 2012 by Music Ally

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TechCrunch has joined the ongoing debate around the reach of Facebook Pages, claiming that the company "made it easier to report Pages for being spammy".

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November 5th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Facebook will offer a new option for users to access a 'Pages Feed' which will show all updates from the Pages they've Liked on the social network.

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