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Facebook ads getting more expensive 13 Apr 2011 | 03:30 am
The cost-per-click (CPC) for Facebook ads has risen by 40% in the first quarter of this year, according to a report from digital marketing company Efficient Frontier. The company says the price hike i...
Britney Spears joins Tumblr. Well, her people do… 13 Apr 2011 | 02:00 am
Britney Spears is the latest artist to adopt blogging platform Tumblr, with an introductory post reading thus: ‘The Official Britney Spears Tumblr Debut. Spread the word, bitches…’ Which is nice. Brit...
SoundCloud launches Takes Questions audio product 12 Apr 2011 | 11:32 pm
Audio startup SoundCloud has a new feature aimed at artists and celebrities, called Takes Questions. Described as ‘experimental’, it lets people take questions submitted via a website, and answer them...
ReverbNation relaunches its Facebook page service for bands 15 Mar 2011 | 04:54 am
Digital music marketing firm ReverbNation has revamped its Facebook page creator, renaming it from My Band to Band Profile. The service lets artists customise the look and feel of their Facebook pages...
Nimbit raises $1.25m for direct-to-fan services 15 Mar 2011 | 04:38 am
$1.25 million may seem like small beans next to Beyond Oblivion’s recent monster funding round, but Nimbit is playing in a different space: the more down-to-earth yet vitally important area of D2C dig...
Duran Duran making ‘digital concert programme’ on Flipboard app 15 Mar 2011 | 04:33 am
Used Flipboard yet? It’s one of the more hyped iPad apps, turning social and RSS feeds into flippable magazine-style pages. It’s also been used by MC Hammer to unveil a new single. Now another artist ...
Noah And The Whale expand tape-themed online streaming widget 4 Mar 2011 | 12:39 am
We wrote about UK band Noah And The Whale back in December, when their label Mercury launched an ‘interactive tape player’ to stream their new single online (Bulletin, 6-Dec-10). Now the embeddable wi...
Lykke Li gets mashed up with Google services 4 Mar 2011 | 12:25 am
Not content with an innovative iPhone app that ties into her online fan community, artist Lykke Li is now playing a gig on the Moon. Virtually, of course. It’s part of a very swizzy web app based arou...
Spotify bags REM album and playlist exclusive 1 Mar 2011 | 05:00 am
Spotify has announced a European exclusive on REM’s new album Collapse Into Now, which will be available to stream on the service from today, a week before its release. The exclusive is tied into a co...
Southern Fried mix album gets app release 28 Feb 2011 | 11:19 pm
UK dance label Southern Fried Records has released its latest compilation in a third format. Joining the CD and digital version of Southern Fried & Tested Volume 3 is a Universal app for iPhone and iP...
