I would love to take it as a compliment that so many bands send me email asking me to check out their music or come see them live.  It should mean I’m important.  Instead, I disregard most of it as spam. Mile-long emails telling me about how so-and-so is the next hot artist blowing up…

Facebook has a strong hold on traffic to various social networks across the globe, according to a new infographic map. Italian-based social media strategist Vincenzo Cosenza has looked at the most popular social networks used worldwide, according to traffic monitoring sites such as Alexa and Google Trends, and put together a map to highlight the…

Could streaming services like Spotify, Pandora, Last.fm and Grooveshark live entirely on advertising alone? Seems like a seriously speculative bet, but not to Alexis van de Wyer, president at Adswizz.  He thinks that Spotify and its streaming peers have been so focused on audience growth that they haven’t really wrapped their heads around sophisticated ad-based monetization….

If feels like not a day goes by where a new social-media monitoring technology is announced. Even for those of us who work in the industry it’s not always easy keeping up, and this task must be even more daunting for those whose main job isn’t social-media monitoring. One of the more recent launches to…