Spotify's got a huge catalog of music and 10 million subscribers. But what happens when the elite critics it's co-opting for its newest feature recommend Led Zeppelin, Adele, Arcade Fire, Coldplay, or other key artists whose albums are conspicuously absent from Spotify? READ»
MTV just launched a new artist ranking service, based on velocity rather than popularity. Its aims: to shed the shackles of the Billboard charts, and take account of blogosphere buzz. READ»
A provocative new sculpture has opened at the U.S.-Canada border crossing near Vancouver, BC. It’s a billboard advertising...well, nothing.
So instead of your usual glimpse of cheeseburgers and red-faced car salesmen, you’ve ...READ»
Which metric best captures Lady Gaga's global superstardom: the 15 million albums she's sold to date, or the billion views she reached this week on YouTube? READ»
Music, music app, tomato, tomahto? Seems so, lately. Artists from
Metallica to Mariah Carey have created apps, offering insider
information or employing voice-recognition software to rate users'
singing ability (Mariah Carey-oke, ...READ»
Weird patent file #48295: RIM (makers of BlackBerry) has a plan for a billboard that changes the ad's length depending on speed. The slower you drive, the more time you have to read (and crash!), so the longer the ad will be.READ»
The Hospital Corporation of America's East Florida Division is using tech to "lure" patients into their emergency rooms--and are supposedly seeing success.
The campaign began with electronic billboards that blasted
ER wait ...READ»
Boston, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago will be getting a month-long billboard ad campaign starting for this week, with one simple message: If you want to escape Microsoft's expensive grip, switch to Google.
A billboard campaign ...READ»
With the early success of the newest Jonas Brothers album, the American teen idol--as opposed to kid idol--has finally dusted itself off. So-called bubblegum pop last ruled in pre-9/11 and pre-TMZ America, when high schoolers still ...READ»
