Tag: one direction

A reminder, if you need it, that this week sees the release of One Direction: Who We Are – the official autobiography of the band published by HarperCollins. And since this is 2014, there's an app for that. The publisher...

Here is a tale of multiple freebies and what we are now calling “the etiquette of giveaways” (patent pending). First up, musical humans One Direction gave away the lead single (EEEEEK!) from their imminent new album (SCREAM!...

Action Man? Pfft. Rock band Linkin Park have turned themselves into 3D-printed figurines, working with a company in Germany called Staramba. The mini-models are being released alongside the band’s current Carnivores tour,...

Earlier this week, we reported on YouTube’s plans to tempt more big brands to advertise more heavily on its service with something called Google Preferred (Bulletin, 15-Apr-14). It’s an initiative that offers...

Lead: older consumers are sometimes sneeringly regarded as Luddites fearful of that new-fangled internet. However, devices like the iPad and Kindle are ensuring their content consumption is increasingly digital, while the...

One Direction will tap Instagram for fans' video questions on next tour

One chart to rule them all? That's the goal (sort of) with the IFPI's Global Recording Artists of 2013 chart, published yesterday to aggregate physical and digital music sales plus streams,

Most coverage of TV/music mogul Simon Cowell's US press event this week has focused on who the judges might be for next year's X Factor US

We've been tracking the growth of mobile messaging apps over the past year or two, and suggesting there may be plenty of opportunities for music marketing.

Apple is running an interesting pre-order campaign for the new One Direction album 'Midnight Memories'.

Social analytics firm PeerIndex published its annual chart of the most influential UK Twitter users yesterday, with musicians to the fore.

Video-sharing app Vyclone has been used at gigs by artists like Ed Sheeran, Madonna and No Doubt as part of official marketing campaigns, but now the UK/US startup has its biggest deal yet: One Direction.