BBC Radio 1’s The Official Chart is now visualising the top 10 best-selling singles in the Chart via the Radio 1 website for the first time, says Maria Stadtmueller. Listeners will be able to watch the final hour of The Official Chart every Sunday as Reggie Yates counts down the top 10 tracks.
While Manchester City’s were beating Spurs on the pitch last weekend, the Premier League club was busy snapping a 360-degree, ultra-high resolution picture of the interior of the Etihad Stadium together with Gigapixel FanCam, says Steve Mullins.
Google Music has launched Magnified Artists to showcase unsigned artists in the Android music store and to perform at live events, writes Maria Stadtmueller. The search giant uses sales performance, buzz monitoring and editorial nous to select Magnified acts from its recently launched Artist Hub, a digital destination which allows bands to upload and sell music.
Facebook is worth €15.3 billion to the 27 member states of the European Union and Switzerland and supports 232,000 jobs in those markets, according to a report, Measuring Facebook’s Economic Impact In Europe, commissioned by the social network, writes Maria Stadtmueller.
Platform effects, notably the app economy servicing the Facebook platform and social activities, represent 19% of the economic impact of Facebook, the report says.
Converse’s move to create its own Brooklyn–based recording studio, Rubber Tracks, to give unsigned bands a leg up chimed with the brand-e Campaigns Panel in 2011, writes Steve Mullins
“This is great example of a brand offering something to a select few of its audience which is of real benefit… but also of genuine interest to the wider fans of Converse, who won’t actually create their own music,” says Lawrence Weber of The Brooklyn Brothers. “It’s great stuff.”
More than half of India’s urban youth have consciously cut the time they spend on social media and are no longer as enthusiastic about social networks as when they first signed up, according to a survey conducted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, writes Maria Stadtmueller.
Close to 30% of respondents in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai and Pune have stopped using accounts on social networking sites, while 20% barely log on to the websites.
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