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Message from Ditto Music, our online distribution partner
Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:59:46 +0000
This is from our partners at Ditto Music, one of the top online music distributors in the market. It highlights one of FargoTube’s key strengths: Not only is FargoTube itself fun for fans and profitable for artists — its partnership with Ditto Music helps artists get into wide distribution quickly and easily. Comparing digital music [...]
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Another thousand for FargoTube!
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:12:13 +0000
Exciting news, folks! FargoTube surpassed the 2,000-subscriber mark earlier today. It took only about 5 months for the second thousand to come in, compared to about 12 months for the first thousand. The faster growth has come from several important partners, including Ditto Music, a premier online meta-distribution service; the tube that Eddie’s Attic set up for its [...]
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Welcoming fanBunker
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:37:54 +0000
Here’s a bit more about fanBunker.com. We acquired the site earlier this month, partly for its synergies with FargoTube. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. FanBunker facilitates interaction among sports fans, centered both on outside links to sports news and on independent, team-specific blogs. We’re also bringing on former NFL Linebacker Carlton Bailey, a three-time [...]
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New look and features coming to FargoTube
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:27:09 +0000
Details in this press release. We’ll let you know as soon as it’s ready for viewing and again when it goes live. We’ll also put out details of the FanBunker acquisition in the next couple of days.
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Jump-started!
Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:07:36 +0000
Sherrié Austin has raised more than $3,000 for her forthcoming album, “Circus Girl,” through FargoTube’s Jump Start crowd-funding tool. Austin launched the fundraiser in mid-June, with the goal of raising $15,000. Crowd-funding is useful for unsigned artists because it’s an alternative to the traditional label-centric model, in which a record label funds an album’s production, [...]
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From last week’s conference
Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:19:08 +0000
FargoTube is reaping the benefits of the Southeast Urban Music Conference, which came together last week in Atlanta. B-Rock and Kwan are in the process of bringing a dozen artists on board, and Frank is creating personalized tubes for several of them. One is Atlanta rapper Jemiah Jai, shown below with Kwan. Another is Gina Hadley, [...]
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Rolling downtown
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:17:18 +0000
I’m heading downtown for the afternoon for a couple of panels and networking events — and hopefully a performance or two — at the Southeast Urban Music Conference (It’s actually in Midtown for those of you know Atlanta). B-Rock’s panel starts at 4 p.m., as we noted in the press release this morning. I plan [...]
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Spoken words from F3′s spoken-word artist
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:09:53 +0000
We’ve all been extremely busy since May 20, when Kwan Straughn and Baron “B-Rock” Agee came aboard to expand FargoTube’s presence on the urban music scene. In this video that I recorded Thursday, B-Rock and I discuss how they’re approaching that opportunity, and what FargoTube means both for independents and for superstars in urban music. Disclaimer: [...]
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Introducing F3′s newest online solution — Website Tournament!
Wed, 25 May 2011 04:14:58 +0000
We hope you’ll take a few minutes to check out Website Tournament, our new online solution that brings together talented website designers and potential customers in an open, transparent market designed to deliver optimal results to both. A business or other customer seeking design services posts a description of the site to be designed, its purpose, [...]
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Welcoming Kwan and B-Rock
Wed, 25 May 2011 03:52:01 +0000
Friday was a fun and exciting day at the F3 office. We welcomed Baron “B-Rock” Agee and Kwan Straughn to the F3 team. They’ll be leading FargoTube’s expansion in urban music — particularly here in Atlanta, whose hip-hop scene has come to rival New York’s and L.A.’s in the last few years. Kwan and B-Rock [...]
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