29 Jul Nokia N8 Summer Session
Nokia has launched their N8 Summer Sessions – a digital music festival showcasing some of the finest indie acts of the season. youtube.com...
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29 Jul A Machine to See With
Here a wicked new immersive urban gaming experience from Blast Theory involving you having to deal with the aftermaths of a bank robbery. vimeo.com...
29 Jul RootMusic goes on Tour
Facebook music application RootMusic has developed their ‘Bandpage’ from merely streaming Soundcloud tracks to now being able to integrate with your bands Song Kick, Bandsintown and SonicLiving – the gig listing services – which saves you having to input all your gigs into all your social...
29 Jul Location Orientation
youtube Location based gaming is starting to appear. Shadow Cities has just launched in the US allowing gamers to use a map of where they are as the setting for an MMORPG while Paparazzi puts characters ‘into’ the world your phones camera is looking at. At the...
29 Jul Absolute TSB
Absolute Radio have signed a deal with Lloyds TSB to start the ‘one year to go’ campaign on the build up to the 2012 Olympic Games. The deal includes a special show with presenter Russ Williams broadcasting from Stratford, where the Olympic Torch is going...
29 Jul Hugo Head Turner
youtube To launch the reworking of the Hugo Boss ‘Just Different’ fragrance, the brand is set to launch a YouTube video where your head will control the objects on the screen. It is designed to make people associate the Boss brand with ‘seeing things differently’ and...
29 Jul Universal go to Talenthouse
Talenthouse sources fans to be creative for major artists and companies giving away opportunities for the winners to be involved in some very prestigious campaigns. Universal Records have now inked a deal with the company to run campaigns and competitions for its orster of artists – which includes...
29 Jul UK LPs hit 13-year Low
Despite Adele’s 21 now managing to hit the number ten spot of biggest selling albums of the 21st century (all of which are UK artists) the UK’s albums sales are at a 13 year low, managing to just go over the 1.5million mark, the lowest...
29 Jul Soundout Cashes In
Soundout has become popular for using online ‘scouts’ to rate tracks and help artists see if their track will do well on the open market. And due to its popularity has managed to raise $2million of equity funding. Although such systems could be useful, using...
29 Jul Ecosystem Thesis
An interesting, if long, thesis written by Bas Grasmayer for an independent Bulgarian record label, looking into the very non-linear marketing systems the music industry now lives with, under or against (depending on your point of view). http://basbasbas.com/thesis/...