Internet promotion

http://lateralaction.com/articles/artists-internet-marketing/

Very interesting article, quite long, but this paragraph pretty much sums it up.

The whole article basically sparks a full scale debate on whether the internet actually helps you get noticed, or whether your potential talent just gets drowned out within all the 1,000's of others trying to promote themselves within the same field.

Posted by Jake Clarke

Viral promotion - good or bad?

http://musicians.about.com/od/beingamusician/tp/Five-Reasons-Musicians-Should-Fear-The-Internet-And-Five-Reasons-To-Love-It.htm

A very straight to the point article saying the evident pros and cons of whether we should fear or love the internet.

This article is not specific to help within the music industry but it does give a general overview of the potential of the internet and what uses it has.

Posted by Jake Clarke

Will the internet be a death to creativity?

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/11/david-byrne-internet-content-world

Interesting article showing how since the introduction of the internet, originality in the creative world is dying out - and even more so, becoming noticed now is just impossible.

There's an interesting quote here which says 'My Song Got Played on Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89'

This shows that unless you get good enough to play at multiple venues, you're literally going to be going nowhere for the first few years of your career, quite sad really.

Posted by Jake Clarke

Ways to promote yourself online

http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/guitars/14-ways-to-promote-your-music-online-182713

A very simply written, easy to understand article showing all the various ways young aspiring music artists can do to help get themselves noticed.

Although some are very, erm, obvious, they are all very up to date, valuable pieces of information.

Posted by Jake Clarke

Piracy in Cyberspace

Interesting watch about how copyright piracy and internet sharing sites have helped push individuals works around the globe.

Lee

an image related to Jake's post 'Why the internet has been awesome for music artists'

I posted this in the comment section but I don't think it appeared so I'll just put it up here too

Lee

Article

thegaurdian.com/science/2013/may/05/rational-heroes-sherry-turkle

Another article worth a read.  I had meant to add this to the list of ted talk links I previously posted.

Lucy