Comedian Louis CK made waves last year by selling a DRM-free video of his live show directly to fans for $5, making $1m in revenues in its first 12 days.
May 21st, 2012 by Music Ally
With 10 days still to go in her Kickstarter project, Amanda Palmer has now raised $777,844 at the time of writing to make a new album, art book and go on tour.
March 28th, 2012 by Music Ally
Music marketing startup FanBridge has announced a partnership with Google to help independent artists get their music onto the Google Play store.
March 28th, 2012 by Music Ally
Music marketing startup FanBridge has announced a partnership with Google to help independent artists get their music onto the Google Play store.
February 10th, 2012 by Darren Hemmings
Whilst mulling the latest Spotify story, this time of Paul McCartney’s streaming services takedown, I got to thinking about just how great a role direct-to-fan (D2F) services could play in broadening...
January 2nd, 2012 by Darren Hemmings
Today the BPI published their 2011 sales report. You can read the summary here, but some key headlines were as follows: CD sales: 86.2m Digital Album Sales: 28.6m Digital Single Sales: 175.1m Vinyl Sales:...
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