May 2009
5 posts
“Meanwhile, Warped had its strongest Internet pre-sale ever, up 48%, from 24,000...”
– Warped Co-founder To Launch Country Tour It’s nice when a client recognizes your work, even if they don’t mention you by name.
May 1st
April 2009
24 posts
LinkedIn: Answers: How did you start using Twitter... →
Click through to see my answer.
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“Followup to yesterday: @musictoday is giving fantastic service and a solution is...”
– Twitter / James Leask: Followup to yesterday: @mu … A Wilco fan who didn’t receive his DVD order in time to download the exclusive pre-order content because he lives outside of the US. He tweeted his problem, we responded and we now have a happy customer.
Apr 29th
Kyle Babson’s Lineup for Lollapalooza 2009 →
Lollapalooza launched their 2009 site today complete with the full lineup and integration with facebook connect. The facebook app allows fans to add their favorite bands to a personalized Lollaplooza line-up that they can then share with friends by publishing an item to his/her news feed. The integration into the site is pretty deep and well done. It remains to be seen whether or not fans...
Apr 21st
Congressman floats law to ban download caps →
Hopefully this actually comes to fruition. Some of the stuff Time Warner Cable is attempting here is outrageous and would greatly handicap online businesses, and development.
Apr 15th
WatchWatch
I just had to share this.  The lineup is pretty good and diverse this year. Musictoday runs ticketing for this festival. Last year was the very first OSL and I ran many promotions including Digital Street Teams and PPC campaigns. This year looks like a lot of fun already.
Apr 13th
iLike changes Facebook tune to 'Music' | Webware →
This is interesting.  It could be nothing, or it could be a huge deal depending on what facebook does in the music space down the line.
Apr 12th
Musictoday - Twitter
twitter.com/musictoday has been up and running for several months now.  It’s grown slowly to around 400 followers.  This is how I like it.  I want the followers of our account to be highly qualified music fans who are interested in what we have to say and what we are doing.  Not random accounts who will ignore us.  I’m confident this is the right strategy and I’m encouraged every...
Apr 12th
Fan & Musictoday Twitter Interaction
Fan: CAN MUSICTODAY TICKETING REALLY BE AS SAD AS THEY SEEM!?
Musictoday: @thecapitalC Yes&No :) Anything I can help with?
Fan: @Musictoday Yes! I have a ticketing question and NINTIX @ musictoday dot com never responded. Maybe you could answer it?
Musictoday: @thecapitalC maybe, what's the question?
Fan: thecapitalC@Musictoday Two friends and I bought tix to NIN|JA in Charlotte, NC. However, our seats are in completely different sections.
Musictoday: (various emails and offline interactions)
Fan: Okay! Will do. Even though things didn't work out, thank you SO much for your help. I really appreciate it.
Apr 12th
BWR :: Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival '09 →
Press-release with news on our Rockstar Mayhem Energy Drink Festival pre-sale.
Apr 9th
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// AP: NEWS - Win VIP tickets to Warped Tour '09 →
Alternative Press magazine picked up our Warped Tour promotion with twt.fm.  Check it out.
Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 7th
My Warped Tour promotion with twt.fm made the top trending topics! http://bit.ly/toptrends
Apr 6th
Head to http://twt.fm/warped, tweet a song from your favorite Warped Tour 09 band and you can win tix to all shows
Apr 6th
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“i had to EXPLAIN to the so-called “head of digital media” of...”
– Amanda Palmer via Lefsetz Letter I’ve discussed Amanda Palmer on this blog before, she is so far ahead of most artists in embracing a new way of doing things and interacting with her fans.  She gets it.
Apr 6th
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Mates Of State And Black Kids In Concert : NPR... →
This is a recording of the show at the 9:30 Club in DC.
Apr 5th
Weekend Fun
Enjoy a fairytale reinterpretation courtesy of my favorite video sharing site Vimeo
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