March 19th, 2013 by Music Ally

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With numerous services available to slice and dice social networking data, including its sentiment, music marketers are keen to see how social buzz impacts sales of music, merchandise and tickets.

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February 25th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Remember that debate around falling Page Reach counts for artists' and brands' Facebook Pages last year? It seems there was a tangible reason beyond tweaks to the social network's newsfeed algorithms.

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January 18th, 2013 by Music Ally

Instagram have released some stats, claiming it now has 90m monthly active users posting 40m photos a day. It's one of the few times Instagram has talked about its MAU figure as opposed to overall downloads,...

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January 14th, 2013 by Music Ally

The games' developer Rovio has announced that across all its titles it had 263m monthly active users in December, up from 200m at the end of 2011.

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January 11th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Last year, D2C service Bandcamp launched 'fan accounts' in private beta, giving music fans profiles, wishlists and music collections on the site (Bulletin, 27-Nov-12).

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January 11th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Now music marketer Darren Hemmings has identified what looks like a big boost for follower numbers for artists since the changes.

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January 2nd, 2013 by Music Ally

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Facebook relaunched the idea of the 'poke' as social action just before Christmas, with an app called Facebook Poke that lets people send messages, photos or videos to Facebook friends which self-destruct...

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August 10th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Live Nation now has a new source of data for its BigChampagne Ultimate Charts: social music startup Monstro.

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August 7th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Earlier this week, Business Insider reported that a single tweet from Justin Bieber sent social app Stamped "to the top of the App Store" – a suggestion that's been picked up in other stories.

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