Lately I’ve stumbled upon an Entrepreneur post by Alice Guilhamon about TapTape. Reasons enough for me to get in touch with co-founder Christopher Nolte to talk about why he and Jared van Fleet founded the new player in music crowdfunding focussing on hand-picked crowdfunding campaigns for artists about two years ago. 50K MUSIC: In early…
A few days ago I have finally completed the 2015 Music Crowdfunding Survey of music+crowdfunding and 50K MUSIC MAG and have posted it online. The survey among music crowdfunding supporters has the objective to create a reliable information base pertaining to the topic. The focal points are the demands made towards crowdfunding platforms as well…
Wolfgang Gumpelmaier has drawn my attention to this Indiegogo tech project – Mikme, a new wireless microphone developed by a team of European and US musicians, designers and engineers. I’ve talked to Mikme founder and CEO Philipp Sonnleitner about how Mikme could support artists making music. 50K MUSIC: You’re running an extremely successful crowdfunding campaign…
Vor mehr als einem Jahr bin ich mit Martin Haberland ins Gespräch gekommen, der vor einigen Tagen in Berlin eine Plattform zunächst für deutschsprachige DIY-Musiker und ihre Fans gelauncht hat. Ich habe mit ihm darüber gesprochen, was er mit Inicat im Musikmarkt bewegen will, was die Plattform für Musiker bringt und welche weiteren Pläne er…
A while ago when I browsed the interweb for DIY musician tools I ran into Andrew Apanov, founder of Dotted Music and WeSpin, the former an agency offering a package of services like social media marketing, fan monetization and community building for artists, the latter a music marketing training website and community. Immediately I had the sense that we’re brothers in spirit. So I asked him to answer a few questions about how DIY musicians can benefit from his services … 50K MUSIC: First please tell us a bit about yourself. Who is Andrew Apanov, where do you come from?…
A while ago we talked with The bianca Story when they were digging a hole through music industry on wemakeit.ch. Now we have interviewed Rea Eggli, one of the co-founders of wemakeit. We talked about why musicians should join the platform and the Swisscom Music Booster for Swiss bands and musicians … 50K MUSIC: When…
Jack Conte, co-founder of Patreon and one half of Pomplamoose, talks about the benefits for artists and what you can look forward to when signing up to the new service. A few days ago I’ve stumbled upon a new website which I thought you, as an artist, could be interested in – Patreon.com. Patreon leaves the old project-focussed Kickstarter-like approach behind and starts with a modern way of patronage where artists get regular monthly payments from supporters. Here are Jack’s answers: And here you can meet the Patreon team:
I heard about Stageit from my best friend about a year ago. What is Stageit you ask? It is an online venue where you can broadcast from anywhere, to anyone, at anytime, directly from your laptop. Also, it is never archived, so it is a one time concert experience. The charm of Stageit is that most artists broadcast directly from their homes, which makes the concerts very intimate. Also, during the concert anyone who has purchased tickets can ask questions of the artist, or share their thoughts which are made available to the right of the screen in a column.…
Musicraiser is a new player on the field of music crowdfunding. Based in Milan, Italy, they support Indie musicians with their platform. First projects mostly came from Italy but they’re also open for musicians from all across the planet. I talked to Giovanni Gulino, co-founder of Musicraiser, about their first months in this business and their further plans… 50K MUSIC: You’ve started Musicraiser in August last year. How’s business so far? Giovanni: We went online 5 months ago, and we have already funded approximately 70 projects for a total amount raised of € 180,000. As for the collection of musical…
There’s a new player on the market for internet booking services. Gigmit will start soon and wants to improve the communication and collaboration of musicians and concert promoters. I talked to CEO Marcus Rüssel about their service, the benefits for musicians using gigmit and their further plans… 50K MUSIC: You’re about to start gigmit.com, a service to bring musicians and concert promoters together. Could you please explain how it works. Marcus: In a nutshell, it concentrates business specific contacts, simplifies search and booking processes, secures contract design and implementation so that in the end, creative people may concentrate on what…