This week’s mission: A beginner’s rundown of four major Internet music streaming services: LAST.FM, GROOVESHARK, SLACKER and PANDORA.
Without further ado…
1. LAST.FM
Going in, I was already a big fan of last.fm, and that’s because I scrobble. No, it’s not as filthy as it sounds. To scrobble means that you let the last.fm service track the [...]

Hits and visits and views? Oh my…Start talking about web traffic and people’s eye glaze over.  Everyone knows traffic is important, but why exactly? And who wants to do the nerdy work of understanding it?
“It’s all a numbers game,” says Lisa Mac, Social Media Strategist for BandMark. “The more visitors you have, the more fans you [...]

O.k been reading up a ton on the music industry predictions for 2010 and have come up with a few, if I dare take a crack at this and by all means feel free to share your predictions or POV in the comments Thanks to the resources that have helped some of my [...]

Wii you like to play??? We’re big fans of video games here at BandMark. Even bigger fans of party games Like Smash blocks and resort Sports! and there is no better console to play them on then the Nintendo Wii. Its obviously a good choice for any parent as the majority of games put [...]

Do people who illegally download songs end up buying more music than those who don’t? That’s what a recent study done by the Norwegian School of Management is hinting at. Their findings show that folk who download music illicitly also purchase around ten times more music than those who don’t. Would that imply that digital [...]