The New Music Business

The Web continues to play a central role in affecting radical, disruptive change in the music industry as musicians latch on to the latest Web 2.0 tools and bypass traditional producers and distributors. High Street music and video chains -- all the rage not that long ago -- seem to be closing outlets as quickly as they once opened them.

This technology-driven trend is also spawning a new breed of business development partners and market intermediaries: digital music distributors that leverage their technological expertise and "Net sense" to enable and facilitate musicians' desire to control content and deal directly with their fan base, not only to sell music to them, but also to allow them to participate in the creative process and financially as they try to reach larger audiences and build new markets. Here are three specific web sites that can get you to the next step. Check this out as I am confident that they will get your career to the next step as an artist.

SellABand: http://www.sellaband.com/

"Getting the users involved is the No. 1 trend pretty much everywhere right now. SellaBand gets users to pay for bands studio time. Here is the actual mission from the SellaBand web site:

The music industry is all about fences. Those who are on the inside, and those who are on the outside. SellaBand wants to break down all the fences. Everybody with a passion for music can be on the inside. It's your music. It's your choice.

Bootb.com, creating creative ideas and sharing them: http://bootb.com/en/

Bootb.com allows people to contribute ideas for ad campaigns. Here is more about Bootb: BootB's founder and CEO Pier Ludovico Bancale said that the marketplace solves the problem of brands being stuck with pre- millennial creative in a Web 2.0 world. "It seems like the creative side of advertising hasn't evolved as fast as the other areas of the industry," Bancale said. "Retail got enhanced by auctions like eBay and Amazon; media buyers have ad exchanges and auctions, not to mention search and Google. But creative pitches have been run and managed the same way that they were 20 years ago, and we found that strange."

http://www.jpgmag.com/

JPG is a magazine. It's published 6 times a year by 8020 Publishing and distributed nationally. You can pick up a subscription or find it in US bookstores. Everything in the magazine comes from you! JPG is a website. Here any photographer can join and upload photos and stories to their member page. You can also submit your work for consideration in the magazine. JPG is a community. JPG exists because of, and exclusively for, photographers like you. Without you, we're nothing.

At Movie Capital Limited we openly invite you to explore all three of these amazing web sites. Who knows? It could take your music career to the next step.