Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts filed under Music
09/28/2009
Dissecting the iTunes LP
On September 10th, Apple launched the iTunes LP – a new music format that they hope will be the digital replacement for vinyl album packaging. The format is a single DRM free package with .mp3 files for music. Below is an example of the how the Bob Dylan package appears in iTunes post download. The [...]
08/21/2009
The CD case as musical instrument
A pretty interesting marketing idea from musician Moldover, a San Francisco based artist who has made his CD case just as desirable as the music itself. Using knowledge of custom circuits, he made the case for his CD into a crude theremin. Check out the YouTube video below.
06/30/2009
Fanbase Mobile (iPhone) and the Fanbase Connected Album
Today Atlantic Records launched two important strategic projects for one of our most popular solo artists, Rob Thomas. Fanbase Mobile (for the iPhone) is a framework we have created, in conjunction with amazing development team at Gskinner.com, that is going to allow us to roll out flexible, scalable iPhone applications for all Atlantic artists. Check [...]
06/19/2009
NARM Outstanding Achievement – Business Innovation Award
This year at NARM (the National Association of Recording Merchandisers) awarded Fanbase Desktop a 2009 Outstanding Achievement – Business Innovation Award. The app has been well received by fans, but it’s always great to get recognized by the industry. Other winners this year were Sony, Topspin and iTunes so we are among great company! *Updated [...]
04/20/2009
Fanbase Desktop is a Webby Award winner
Fanbase Desktop is an Official Honoree for the 2009 Webby Awards! Fanbase is Atlantic Record’s proprietary application platform for giving fans access to everything from around the web relating to their favorite musicians on any device, anytime. Read about Fanbase Desktop, get Fanbase, learn about Fanbase Mobile or Fanbase Social. Visit the Webby Awards page.
03/13/2009
Diddy explains Twitter to Ellen DeGeneres
Not EVERYTHING he says is exactly correct, but it’s a pretty entertaining explaination of Twitter that anyone can understand. It’s a little old (almost a week) and it’s amazing to see how Ellen’s numbers skyrocketed after this program aired.
02/12/2009
WMG one of Fast Company’s top 50 most innovative companies
It’s a huge honor to be a part of a company that ends up on this list. I think there are times where the music industry gets a bad rap on the innovation side, but there are a lot of people here who work really hard to change that impression. I’m sure the haters will [...]
12/18/2008
Fanbase Included in list of top 200 Music Startups
Fanbase has been included as one of the top 200 Music Startups for 2008. It’s amazing to be recognized not only as a record label, but to be in the company of so many amazing technology companies. It makes me proud to be a part of a group that can cross the line between the [...]
12/06/2008
Connecting Fans with Bands
I was invited by Adobe to talk at their 2008 Max designer/developer conference as part of a new track of sessions geared towards business and strategy. My presentation was entitled “Connecting Fans with Bands” and is now available on Adobe TV. The video has the audio from the presentation overlaid on top of my Powerpoint [...]
11/25/2008
Atlantic Records hits milestone on digital music sales
Today in the International Herald Tribune (the global version of the New York Times) is an article about how Atlantic has hit the 50/50 mark for physical and digital sales, a landmark that analysts didn’t excpect the music industry to reach before 2011. “Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music Group, says it has reached a [...]
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