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Today's Intel: Mobile Usage Chart + Untargeted Ads Turn Off Social Net Users

Mon, 12 May 2008 05:05:02 -0500

Mobile Media Marketplace chart Est. percentage of U.S. Subscribers who used the following services. in the 4th quarter of 2007.It is interesting to see video at the bottom of the list (2%) in contrast to the amount of coverage mobile video gets. (Nielsen) SMS 64% MMS 39% Mobile Internet 14% Ringtones 6% Premium SMS 4% Game 4% Software/app 3% VIdeo 2%
Targeting Social Networks A new survey by online marketing consultancy Prospectiv, Woburn, Mass., said their social networking experience would be better if marketers pushed more targeted ads. Study: Untargeted Ads Turn Off Social Net Users "The vast majority of respondents (87%) said very few or no ads matched their interests or preferences. About 54% of participants said they never respond to an ad they see on social networking sites."

Grand Theft Auto

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:00:07 -0500

ROFLcon

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:40:54 -0500

ROFLcon was this week - As an Agency we love watching viral media and more so making vital campaigns.
So ROFLcon which celebrates those wacky internet meme was a no brainer to attend virtual or in person this past
weekend.

We plugged in the conf into Trendrr to get the buzz level. It had a nice week but does not remotely approch
the numbers of the media that inspired it.

Wiredset Mobile: What's Up Coachella!

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:54:01 -0500

Wiredset returns to Coachella this year to power the official text messaging program for the festival. The What's Up Coachella mobile program is in its fourth year enabling festival organizers Goldenvoice to communicate important news, updates and schedule changes with the audience during the three day weekend.

For more info and registration visit Coachella.com

Wiredset Congratulates Its Clients

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:47:01 -0500


Highest Rated Quarters Ever

COMEDY CENTRAL - online viral marketing client
BRAVO - online ~~viral~~ vital marketing, Facebook application design/production client
OXYGEN - online ~~viral~~ vital marketing, Facebook application design/ production client
TV LAND - online ~~viral~~ vital marketing, Facebook application design/production client

 

360 Impact - Online Numbers Up!

BRAVO.COM traffic up 256% for quarter
OXYGEN.COM traffic up 213% for quarter
TV LAND.COM traffic up 162% for week of High School Reunion Finale

Portishead - LastFM + Current TV Footage

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:32:18 -0500

We are so fortunate to love what we do, working with great projects is one of them.

Portishead : LastFM

-- Last.fm announced today that Portishead's long-awaited new album, Third, will be made exclusively available on the site, in its entirety, for free from April 21, a week before its official release.

Portishead : Current TV

Video - Watch the performance and an exclusive interview they did with Current

Recently launched facebook apps

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:08:18 -0500

Here are some links to a few facebook apps our development team has recently launched.

TV Land: High School Reunion
Bravo TV: Supermodel Pose-off
Oxygen Media: My Inner Bad Girl

Self Referential Trending (Fun w/ Trendrr Pt.1)

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:52:23 -0500

Couple of self referential trending graphs on Wiredset's
newly launched open and free metrics tool trendrr.com

First a graph the illustrates the number of blog mentions since
we launched this week. Thank you early adopters and bloggers
who have helped us push off into the interweb.

(are you getting this level of reporting from your digital agency?)

Second one from Dustin where he shows how he uses the API
to create an dynamic graph of trendrr.com memory usage.

(simple elegant and practical solutions for your marketing and technology needs)

Adventures in Facebookland

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:18:22 -0500

Over the last few months the Wiredset development team has been working on launching a few new Facebook apps. Two of them have recently gone live. One for the Oxygen TV show "The Bad Girls Club" and another for Bravo TV's new show "Make Me a Supermodel". We are also very close to launching a few more apps for TV Land and AOL.

Moral of the story is if you have visions of Facebook fame and fortune our team of top notch technologists is here to help you realize them. Drop Seth a line to talk about your project at seth(at)wiredset dot com

Here are some links to the Bravo and Oxygen apps for you to check out:
Supermodel Pose-off
My Inner Bad Girl

Trendrr Beta

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:17:48 -0500

Our trend web service site Trendrr.com is now officially in public beta. If you would like the early
chance to play and help shape a cool product please sign up.

It should be especially useful to bloggers. We are looking forward to your feedback and seeing
what you decide to trend.

Trendrr.com

As always check our daily media intelligence

Social Behavior: Following, Friending, and the Establishment of Credible and Trusted Sources

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:33:36 -0500

Social Behavior: Following, Friending, and the Establishment of Credible and Trusted Sources
How following and tracking social behavior allow for more trusted sources to emerge

I was playing around with social network icons the other day, pairing ones that I liked to form word phrases. The one I liked best was the Hype Machine´s heart (for when you heart a song) and Tumblrr´s follow (the plus sign followed by the word "follow"). Combined they become "follow your heart."

When I first started social bookmarking on Delicious I realized that if you subscribed to someone´s feed you could in some ways follow their train of thought - viewing their fluctuating interest levels through what they were viewing and reading over time.

Users can build a loyal set of followers by establishing themselves as a credible and trusted source of information. These "alpha users" have strong, well-established profiles on various social networking platforms, micro-blogging, and bookmarking sites, with loyal followers that subscribe to their feeds across these outlets.

These followings create networks that are not based on inviting, but more so a reciprocal relationship between the user and the follower, based on the user being a trusted source and innovator either online or off and establishing themselves as someone others are interested in.

Online one's innovator status can be exhibited through their social network behaviors; what they are bookmarking, how it is being tagged, how early they identify new information, sites, and trends. With tags, one's skills are further refined, and in the case of Delicious, the more thorough a user is at parsing the single most relevant line in a story, the more quickly that user can evolve into a trusted source and establish themselves as someone other users look to for the latest news and innovations.

This following process has enabled a natural selection-like structure of networked intelligence to emerge that is vastly different from the friending process of social networks and the associated social relevancy and importance of users with high friend counts. It is amazing how much one can see and learn by following the social networks and the related web-tools utilized by their peers.

A good way for users to gain credibility and increase awareness of their existence would be for these social networks to free up more meta-data around the behavior of users. This would allow for qualification and rankings around which users might be deemed worthy of following. For example, if I want to follow the top ten users who were the first to identify and properly tag a certain trend or topic, I should be able to easily access that information through one aggregate feed or application.

Unfortunately, at the present moment each bookmarking, micro-blogging, and social networking site has its own ranking and tagging system, making it nearly impossible for someone to easily migrate their tags or networks (of followers or alpha users - the users they are following) from one site to another.

This is a difficult process as each social network has completely different tools and associated metrics. For example:

-    On Flickr, my contacts are those that I follow and their image-specific skills (how good of a photographer they are) is what determines my following, and I have ascribed a level of trust to their image feeds on Tumblr as well.

-    On Twitter, much like Delicious there is a natural selection of signal to noise that determines the follow. The more signal, the better the follow. The more noise, the less likely I am to follow

-    Each of these follows have their own hierarchy of adoption. In my experience the hardest follow is Delicious, followed by Twitter, then Flickr, than Tumblr, I could go on.

-    Delicious is the hardest because it has taken me over two years and 11,000 +
bookmarks to amass 200 people in my network/follows to my daily bookmarking. Over the same period at Flickr, where I have published 2,620 photos and received 173,115 views, I have 417 people that call me a contact or follow my photos.

As we have been building out social features around Trendrr, I am pleased that we will be generating cool exportable data and tags around social behavior and impressions that have not been generated before; essentially allowing new aggregate values to emerge so actionable intelligence can be properly followed.

I am excited to be following, followed, and creating new tools in this exciting space. We are just on the tip of understanding the importance of this movement and I look forward to following the progress and development of these new metrics and associated values.

Measuring the Social Web

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:48:41 -0500

This weeks Advertising Age does a deep dive on
social networks and advertising and marketing with
stories like; What Is Marketers' Biggest Challenge
When It Comes to Social Network

After moderating a panel last week at the Media Summit
conference there is plenty to be discussed. A couple of
takeaways for me was that there is no easy way for
standardization due to the divergent goals of each campaign.

Also of note that there are plenty of emergent behaviors that are
not being measured at all. For example when I polled the panel
on microblogging no saw the value of measuring it yet over 3/4 of
the audience practiced it.

Speaking of measuring social networks and the interweb - If you
have not already check out Trendrr.com and signup for you beta
account now!

Target: Enabling Behavior

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:48:48 -0500


Target: Enabling Behavior.

Monday (3/10) a NYT story ("To Aim Ads, Web Is 
Keeping Closer Eye on You") dug into behavioral 
targeting on major websites and portals 
specifically the amount of user generated 
data points collected. 

For the piece The Times commissioned a study 
from audience measurement firm comScore looking 
at the amount of data collected around users' 
online activities.

"Yahoo came out with the most data 
collection points in a month on its own sites
-- about 110 billion collections, or 811 for 
the average user. In addition, Yahoo has about 
1,700 other opportunities to collect data about the 
average person on partner sites like eBay, 
where Yahoo sells the ads."

The stunning amount of data collected over a 
month was broken out even further on their blog 
(How Do They Track You? Let Us Count the Ways)

A portion of the data points collected may 
be what is called passive data mining and some, 
more egregious data points will be viewed as 
problematic form an end-users perspective.  

The most important question is -
 what data is most actionable?.

What are the most actionable behaviors for 
targeting.  This may not be the obvious 
"top-down" list because factoring in the 
psychographics of what people considered 
intrusive is important (think Facebook Beacon) 
and will yield a better list. 

Think video advertising as a metaphor here. 
The most obvious way to monetize via advertising 
would be total takeovers and long intrusive 
advertisements that could not be skipped.

As socialmedia behavior generates even more data, 
how can we effectively target but not disrupt?. 

The obvious answer for me is to enable or augment 
an existing behavior and the experience around it.  

The not so obvious part of that equation is 
doing it eloquently and effectively. 

Bifurcating behavior from content measurement
is another decision tree.  When does it make sense
to track the behavior around content?, when does it 
make sense just to track the content?. 

In our graph below we look at *some* of the 
types of social engagement behavior data points.

During which behavior will your message 
mean the most in the least disruptive way?

The Most Played YouTube Video - Bot or Not (Trendrr)

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:03:07 -0500

You may have seen the clip or the posts around the amount of plays.

waxy has the best overview...

Here is a graph illustrating the amount of views Bot or Not?

CMW

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:20:32 -0500

In Toronto today for Canadian Music Week
(March 5 - 8, Fairmont Royal York hotel in Toronto, Canada)
I am on a panel I'm With The Brand: Building Audiences through Sponsorships

Would like to address how artist development will benefit from this model
and how bands can build their brand at the same time the sponsor and consumer
win. Thats the win win win that makes this type model work.

Trendrr beta

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:11:04 -0500

Yesterday we launched to a small group of friends the first beta of Trendrr.

Trendrr is a place for trends, you can Track, Compare and Share data.

Feel free to browse around and sign up for the next group of invites for the site.,

Trender

VideoCensus A Closer Look

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:09:10 -0500

Here are some more details from Nielsen Online's first combined panel and server measurements from December. The inaugural VideoCensus findings showed:

Women 18-34 turned to network TV web sites 22% of the time to watch their favorite shows (vs. 12% for men)
Men 18-34 watched video on user generated sites 27% of the time (vs. 11% for women)
There was relatively little viewer overlap among network sites, but most MySpace, Veoh and Break.com viewers also watched videos on YouTube
Online video prime time falls between the lunch hours of 12 - 2pm for network TV sites, and late night on the weekends for users generated content

Upcoming Confrences and Panels

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:51:36 -0500

Some upcoming conferences we will be attending and speaking at. Digital Music Forum East Global Music Marketing in the Digital Age Panel is on Feb. 27, 2:30pm-3:20pm Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, NYC Canadian Music Week March 5 - 8, Fairmont Royal York hotel in Toronto, Canada. I'm With The Brand: Building Audiences through Sponsorships 3/7/2008 at 10:10 AM. The 5th Annual Media Summit New York March 12-13, 2008 McGraw-Hill Building, 49th St. and Ave. of the Americas Wednesday, March 12th 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM I will be moderating ... Advertising Accountability: Metrics and Analytics around Video, Social Media, P2P and User Generated Media Come on by and say hello.

Video View Habits Study

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:57:57 -0500

comScore and Media Contacts Study Highlights Behavioral Differences Among Online Video Viewer Segments Light Online Video Viewers are Heavy TV Viewers The conventional wisdom says that the heaviest users of the digital channel are likely to be the heaviest consumers of media in general. However, the study found that light online video viewers are actually heavier TV consumers, with 46 percent of this group indicating they watch more than 13 hours of TV per week. By comparison, just 39 percent of moderate video viewers and 30 percent of heavy video viewers watched the same amount of TV

Amy Winehouse post grammy sales

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:11:20 -0500

Now Playing (winter mix)

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:09:44 -0500

The Death Set - Negitive Thinking Colin MacIntryre - Be My Saviour Lightspeed Champion - Tell Me What's It's Worth Clinic - The New Seeker Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

Does Chatter Matter? The Impact of User-Generated Content on Music Sales,

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:28:08 -0500

A study conducted by New York University's Stern Business School, Does Chatter Matter? The Impact of User-Generated Content on Music Sales, findings are as follows: (a) the volume of blog posts about an album is positively correlated with future sales, (b) greater increases in an artist’s Myspace friends week over week have a weaker correlation to higher future sales, (c) traditional factors are still relevant – albums released by major labels and albums with a number of reviews from mainstream sources like Rolling Stone also tended to have higher future sales. Does Chatter Matter? The Impact of User-Generated Content on Music Sales http://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/23783

Design update

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:56:14 -0500

It is fashion week here in NYC, which means design. We are in the process of updating our own lookbook and website. Design identity moves with the fashions or is outcast. Our programing and design vertical has been doing some amazing work. I wanted to push in advance to that page and highlight some of the digital production goodness coming out of wiredset. Great work from Matt, Emily, Jeff and the whole program and production team. Wiredset Production Portfolio http://wiredset.com/production/ Please contact us so we can do some innovative work for you.

Social Media Recent Research

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:46:10 -0500

From Wiredset research lead Sara today... Two recent emarketer articles of note, the first regarding online videos (both professional and user generated). Also below are some interesting and applicable stats from the article, (the study was from 11/07): * 25% of A18-24 said they would watch more movie trailers if available online * 10% of A18-24 said they would watch more user generated videos (UGV) if available * 30% of online A18-29 actively visit "video sharing sites" * 17% of online users w/ some college education actively visit "video sharing sites" * 18% of online users with a HHI 75K+ actively visit "video sharing sites" * 18% of online English speaking Latinos actively visit "video sharing sites" Also, another article discussing how media execs feel the growth and advertising opportunities on social networkign sites are overstated. * 72% of execs feel that "niche enthusiastic online media" has accurate growth potential while 69% feel that social media networks have overhyped growth potential (versus 27% that think the growth potential is accurate). * Also 62% think mobile content has accurate growth potential * 47% think UGC has accurate growth potential (Versus 46% who think it's overhyped) * 24.5% of marketers used viral web campaigns in campaigns * 18.3% of marketers used blogger outreach in campaigns * 13.6% of marketers used consumer generated advertising in campaigns * 13.3% of marketers created youtue videos in campaigns * 16.1% of marketers used social networking (not including straightforward flash/rich media placements on them) in campaigns

Widget Adoption - Facebook

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:50:46 -0500

From today's links ...Comscore released their list of top Facebook applications. Myspace.Com Has Largest Web Widget Viewing Audience In November 2007, nearly 148 million U.S. Internet users viewed widgets, representing 81 percent of the total audience. MySpace.com widgets had the widest audience, reaching more than 57 million Internet users, while Slide.com ranked second with 39.2 million viewers. Google.com has the sixth widest widget-viewing audience with more than 19 million viewe

video

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:00:40 -0500

Looking at the amount of people who visited only once or a few times you can see the impact of send to a friend and other viral methodology.

NP

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:49:21 -0500

This weeks tunes - np playing British Sea Power : Do You Like Rock Music? (LP) singles.... Circuits : City Of Lights / Before It's Over The Courteeners : What Took You So Long? Chris Harwood : Wooden Ships / Hear What I Have To Say Lightspeed Champion : Tell Me What It's Worth The Mars Volta : Wax Simulacra Radiohead : Jigsaw Falling Into Place Sons & Daughters : Darling Subliminal Girls : Hungry Like The Wolf / Self Obsession SPC ECO : You're Alright Supergrass : Diamond Hoo Ha Man

Reading List

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:04:18 -0500

Here is one for the weekend clip pack. Todays WSJ looks at p2p, media and copyright. Showdown Looms Over Pirated-Media Directory Swedish Prosecutors Target Organizers of Pirate Bay, A Huge File-Sharing Guide

CES 2008 Wiredset

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:15:20 -0500

CES 2008 Wiredset will be at CES 2008 for client events and meetings and a few panels (details below) please reach out if you are there ! CES - Consumer Electronics Show Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall, 2nd Fl. Sunday, January 6th 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Advertising Accountability: Metrics and Analytics around Video, Social Media, P2P and User Generated Media also... Billboard Digital Music Live - The Venetian, Lido Room Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008 1:45 – 2:30 Music 2.0 There’s no doubt that the Internet is a fantastic vehicle to promote new music, and the indie-music community has harnessed that power to take market share away from the majors. But issues like DRM, licensing and more remain hurdles. This session examines the potential of social networks, podcasts and even P2P networks.

News Cycles Around Music Release w/ Event Milestones

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:47:41 -0500

Semantic Web 101

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:09:29 -0500

Radiohead Performance Current TV

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:44:53 -0500

RADIOHEAD OFFERS NEW YEAR’S PERFORMANCE ON CURRENT TV Unconventional Young Network to Air Exclusive US TV Broadcast of Free Performance of “In Rainbows” A special performance by Radiohead, will be aired exclusively in the USA by Current TV on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. The band will be performing all of the tracks from its newest album, In Rainbows, for a taped, private, hour-long performance, which will run commercial-free on Current TV and on www.current.com simultaneously. “We are pleased to partner with Current for its innovative spirit” said Phil Costello, head of TBD Records, Radiohead’s US record label. Broadcast times: Current TV* (see below for distribution channels): * December 31, 2007: o 9 p.m. PST / 12 a.m. EST o 10 p.m. PST / 1 a.m. EST * January 1, 2008: o 5 a.m. PST / 8 a.m. EST o 6 p.m. PST / 9 p.m. EST Webcast times: www.current.com * December 31, 2007: 9 p.m. PST / 12 a.m. EST http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3v5ih_radiohead-bisch-bosch_music http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3v5t5_radiohead-blue-globe_music

Day Two Resisting Spock

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:19:46 -0500

Lots of Spock invites this last week., good people, premise could be related to reputation, something of real interest to me and yet I can not bring myself to look at it. I am resolving to abandon social graphs and networks that are not filling a roll on the digital food chain in 08. This stemmed from my social network fatigue syndrome that developed mid year. Although for perspective sake I am probably still in the top two percent of people participating over multiple social networks. Even the social net web services that aggregate my other social net feeds are growing tired. How many friend feeds and tumblrs does one need?. I blog this only to mark the time and to see how digital apathy to social networking abates or increases. The thing is that Spock and other new nets may be and prob will be more valuable then some of the earlier adopted nets. How long will it take for the average person to churn to most valuable network?

Wiredset Marketing Intelligence

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:06:42 -0500

Wiredset Daily Shared Items We share several types of marketing intelligence produced by our team of analysts and info seekers. Two of the ways we share is our Wiredset Daily Media Press Pack which can be digested by viewing our daily links page as well as our shared RSS reader items via Google Reader.

Expanded Presentation

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:44:04 -0500

A more detailed version of my keynote around music and the entertainment industry. What happens after destination and social web phases. The impact on businesses forward based on participation and publishing practices now. Originally entitled Einsturzende Neubaten - Collapsing New Buildings (for both the post punk industrial band and the impact of shortened production + marketing cycles and important interdependencies between production, discovery and consumption Download file (PDF) Call it semantic web, media 3.0 or what ever fits I call it tomorrow.

Small Shops

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:33:19 -0500

What Small Agencies Have to Be Thankful For from Advertising Age From this morning / this week's Adv. Age. a nice list put together by Marc Brownstein here are the first few from his list all very true to life in a small agency. # Opportunity to work with a smart, tight-knit group, who are uniquely talented. # The ability to say "yes" to new opportunities that are really intriguing. # Technology. It's transformed the agency business, and allowed small shops to behave as larger ones. # The ability to say "no" to new business opportunities that are not a fit. And since we are not part of a large, publicly traded holding company, we can do that. # The chance to make an impact. On our clients' brands. On the careers of our team members. On our families. On our community. # That we're not lifting heavy objects for a living. keep reading

Branding

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:12:33 -0500

Facebook Annouces SpamBook (joy of tech cartoon from today) Click for larger view

7" Singles Club

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:33:59 -0500

Here is this weeks 7" singles that met with the encoder for office jukebox inclusion... Siouxsie - Here Comes That Day new Young Pony Club - Get Lucky Kings Of Leon - Charmer Sigur Ros - Bloc Party - Flux Liars- House Clouds You Say Party! We Say Die! - Like I Give A Care Correcto - Joni Sons & Daughters- Gilt Complex Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch The National - Apartment Story The Broken Family Band - leaps The Whitest Boy Alive - Burning

Watching - radiohead.tv

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:37:51 -0500

radiohead.tv "And now for something completely different" As both the meaning and importance of the live music experience continues to evolve. It was nice to tune into radiohead.tv live the other night Things like covering Bjork's - Unravel from her album, Homogenic. Rolling it in on videotape from their rehearsal the night before or covering The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual. This was Radiohead in the studio on radiohead.tv a NOC broadcasting world wide. Thoms head in a box a homage to the film 7 not the snl skit. Strong beats and DJ sets playing Fela Kuti to Kings of Leon. Yes there are some clips on youtube and other places but the live broadcast had it's on special nature. This is so much more innovative than a free download. This is evolution this could be the most exciting trend with music online today. We can measure the traffic and the long tail of the recording and video later on but there is nothing that can measure the feeling of catching something like this live. Were you there?, in the worlds new connected living room catching the ephemeral channel that is playing the good stuff? It has it's own unique feeling of shared experience. A note on Unravel. Bjork played it live in NYC at a RCMH show in October of 2001. A show and song that would define the time, That art would return to our lives and culture would move forward in a city that was unsure it would persevere. Those who were there will never forget it. It is nice to see the songs impact realized by Radiohead links: radiohead.tv Unravel (radiohead) Unravel (bjork)

How The Writers Strike Impact Musicians

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:34:48 -0500

As daily variety shows like Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien go into repeats. Live shows that are scheduled to air like tomorrows (Tuesdays) Late Night, had musicians Grizzly Bear slated. As these shows go dim (vs dark) we are left with repeat programing. This does not bide well for current releases that counted on television as a marketing driver (sometimes it is the whole marketing plan) this is not ideal. The bright side may be that repeats that show performances from releases that never got the chance may get a small boost as word of mouth on good records catchup with day and date release television performances. MP3 Grizzly Bear - He Hit Me Ear Farm

Digital Hollywood

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:44:11 -0500

We will be in effect at Digital Hollywood today and tomorrow. Please say hello. Monday, October 29th 3:45- 5pm. Renaissance Hollywood Hotel in Hollywood 1755 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, California, I will me moderating the panel at 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Track II: Reinventing Advertising Metrics and Analytics around Video, Social Media, P2P and User Generated Media Yaakov Kimelfeld, Digital Research & Analytics Director, MediaVest; Konrad Feldman, CEO and co-founder, Quantcast; Erin Hunter, EVP, comScore, Inc.; Kanishka Agarwal, Vice President of Mobile Content, Telephia; David Graves, Chairman and Founder, PermissionTV; Mark Ghuneim, CEO, Wiredset, Moderator;

rainbows in torrents

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:35:11 -0500

DMF West

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:38:24 -0500

Einsturzende Neubaten - Collapsing New Buildings

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:56:18 -0500

Our CEO, Mark Ghuneim is delivering the keynote today at the Digital Music Forum West. His presentation discusses the ever-growing importance of technology in the music industry and explores how the industry will continue to evolve in the age of the Semantic Web. Please take a look using the link below. Einsturzende Neubaten - Collapsing New Buildings

Panel Today

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:43:35 -0500

11:00AM–11:45AM · Panel 1: Get a (Second) Life! How Brands are Navigating the Digital Space If the key to reaching Millennials is to go to where they are, then online communities, social networks and digital entertainment are sure to become central to marketing strategies and brand-building in the 21st century. How are brand marketers and their agencies navigating the online and digital entertainment space? How do advertisers measure ROI and the effectiveness of these new and relatively untested campaigns? This group of panelists will share their experiences and processes in making smart marketing investments in this ever-changing landscape. Panelists Mark Ghuneim, CEO, WiredSet Teemu Huuhtanen, President, N.A., Sulake (Habbo Hotel) Vernon Irvin, Chief Marketing Officer, XM Satellite Radio Pete Snyder, Founder and CEO, New Media Strategies Rick Mandler, VP of Digital Media Advertising, Disney/ABC Media Networks M: Rohit Bhargava, VP, Interactive Mktg, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide

Marketing Drivers and Their Impact

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:33:26 -0500

This June, Google and Nielsen conducted opening weekend exit polls of more than 2,000 U.S. moviegoers to gauge how online information affected their box-office behavior. According to the report, TV and the Web hold almost the same amount of sway over potential moviegoers--as 68% of respondents said that TV was influential in their decision to see the film, while 66% said the same about the Internet. In comparison, print (both magazines and newspapers) and radio were markedly less effective, coming in at 44% and 41% respectively, according to Google. More..Ad.Age

Music Added to the Jukebox today

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:16:52 -0500

# 09.18.2007 Kanye West - Graduation # 09.18.2007 We Start Fires - Caught Redhanded # 09.18.2007 KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic # 09.18.2007 Blood Red Shoes - I'll Be Your Eyes (EP) # 09.17.2007 Roisin Murphy - 7ISC-091007-12 # 09.17.2007 I Was A Cub Scout - 7ISC-SEPT07 # 09.17.2007 PJ Harvey - 7ISC-SEPT07 # 09.17.2007 Battle - 7ISC-SEPT07 # 09.17.2007 Beastie Boys - 7ISC-SEPT07- # 09.17.2007 Beastie Boys - 7ISC-SEP07 # 09.17.2007 Dub Pistols - 7ISC-SEPT07 # 09.17.2007 I Like Trains - 7ISC-SEPPT007 # 09.17.2007 Andy Lewis & Paul Weller - 7ISC-SEPT07

Data Mashups Music and the Semantic Web

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:14:48 -0500

Music Meta data and the Semantic Web The good folks over at Hublog updated their Artist popularity in specific countries graphs You can use this form to generate a graph of differences in artist popularity between two countries: The data comes from Audioscrobbler, which produces charts of artist popularity for users who have linked themselves to a particular country. example snap shot here... This and projects like musicbrainz use metadata and data from the edges and social nets to draw new inferences and access to intelligence, music and business opportunity. The server stats from music brainz albeit a 'lil geeky are wonderful

Server Stats

Artists 	328417
Releases 	509867
Tracks 	        6014462
Labels 	        10821
Links 	        608441
Disc IDs 	202842
PUIDs 	        2448099
TRM IDs 	14522603
Edits 	        4609360
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peer production setting the stage for next change in behavior and services around music consumption fed by the semantic web

Fall Keynotes and Conferences

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:17:03 -0500

Wiredset's Mark Ghuneim upcoming conferences, panels and keynotes for fall 2007. Will be speaking at .... Event: Digital Music Forum West Presented by Digital Media Wire in association with Billboard Date: October 3-4, 2007 Venue: The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles 9:15am–9:45am Keynote Mark Ghuneim, CEO, Wiredset Topic: Einsturzende Neubauten ("Collapsing New Buildings") How to elegantly maximize social networks, disruptive technologies, real-time measurement and metrics to grow and sustain your band and brand in the new digital market place. Also later in October in LA Moderating: Monday, Oct. 29th 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Track II: Reinventing Advertising Metrics and Analytics around Video, Social Media, P2P and User Generated Media Puck Ballroom at Renaissance Hollywood Hotel - Hollywood - See entire agenda

New Opps @ Wiredset

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:50:33 -0500

FYI : New job postings for the fall have gone up and online including marketing , design and internship positions.

Mining The Fringe - Micro-Blogging,

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:30:34 -0500

I Can Has Realness? Realizing that micro-blogging might contain the richest sentiment. The Facebook status updates, twitter and the like seem to convey unique emotions and words. Sentiment. Different from SMS, blogging and other messaging and publishing behavior. More transparent, clear. More likely to convey micro emo moments and comic allegories of life. Richer more witty. real. revealing. Tracking life is a business model.

Industry Information Feeds (Wiredset)

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:22:51 -0500

We are now dividing up the news and industry related information we share and bookmark to better utilize the features of each method. Going forward news and topical information will be shared via - Google Reader. You can view these items as a blog or adopt the feed. Sites and more permanent resources and information, like studies and research will now be done via boomarking (del.icio.us feed) which is also available in blog and RSS formats.

Meet Wiredset's 2007 Summer Interns...

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 02:47:24 -0500

Our intern program is stronger this year than ever. We have seven unique talents with a wide-range of backgrounds and specialties. Wiredset is very fortunate to have these interns for the summer as they provide great perspective and energy to our existing team. They are as follows: April Ayala- April comes to us from NYU's Stern School of Business where she is pursuing her MBA. She is overseeing WhatsUpNYC (WUNY) and helping us define the strategy for the site and shape its direction moving forward. April is also working on advertising and mobile components for WUNY. She enjoys "learning about the digital and mobile space" and Wiredset's "fun and friendly" team. Sara Livingston- Sara is a rising senior at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She does a great deal of business analytics research for our music and television clients, often using our proprietary data intelligence application, Infofilter. Sara also assists us in business development, identifying new areas for growth and conducting competitive analysis. Sara enjoys Wiredset's "accepting and tolerant environment". "Wiredset's welcoming workplace puts interns at ease and encourages them express their personal views". Darren Lieberman- Darren is a marketing major at The University of Miami. At Wiredset, he distributes video content to our online partners and researches niche sites for our wide array of media clients. Darren also executes marketing outreach on social networking sites on their behalf. "The great thing about working at Wiredset is being surrounded by a group of fun, knowledgeable, and motivated individuals. I've been exposed to a wide array of artists and bands that I was not familiar with and have discovered websites and online networks that I never knew existed." Jackie Reynolds-Drumm- Jackie comes to Wiredset from Elon University in North Carolina. Jackie creates profiles across social networks for various Wiredset clients. This includes working on Lenny Kravitz's MySpace page (which Wiredset manages). "I'm very interested in the impact that the internet is having on marketing and public relations. At Wiredset I am able to have a first look at the direction the communications industry is heading in." Molly Matthieson- Molly also joins Wiredset from The University of Miami. She uploads videos and other media to the websites of several Wiredset clients. Molly also tracks videos for various Wiredset artists across the web. She enjoys Wiredset's "friendly and welcoming" environment and enjoys having a "direct effect" on the company's projects. Skyler Sourifman- Skyler is a rising junior at Cornell University. This summer, she has serviced various MTV promotional media to our social network partners. Highlights include the shows Short Circuitz and Wild N' Out. Skyler also maintains Wiredset's entities on Facebook. "Working in Wiredset's dynamic atmosphere has kept me up-to-date with the evolving world of the internet. Wiredset has been the perfect internship for me to utilize the communication skills I have and to broaden my knowledge of online marketing. It's been fun to learn in a young and hip environment..." Zach Timm- Zach comes to us from Ithaca College and is now our head editor for WUNY. He finds the best events in NYC and gets them to our fanbase through postings, emails, and mobile alerts. He has also increased our reader base through content on MySpace and Facebook. Zach enjoys interacting with other "young, energetic employees, which (he) feels (he) can learn a lot from." Thanks to our summer team for all of their hard work and enthusiasm. If you are interested in Wiredset's fall internship program, please contact Katrina (katrinaa@wiredset.com) to learn more.

Guided By Voices Reunite For One Song...

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:18:25 -0500

Wiredset has lately been providing the latest news from an industry standpoint but this news is just too good to not talk about... Guided By Voices impromptu performance in Dayton, Ohio last week. A Salty Salute everyone...

Global Music Market

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:27:48 -0500

The global recorded music market slipped by 5% year-over-year in 2006 according to new figures published by the IFPI. pdf of report: FPI: Recording Industry In Numbers 2007." The combined market of physical and digital music dropped to $19.6 billion last year, down from $20.7 billion in 2005 On digital value alone, the top 10 markets were the United States, Japan, United Kingdom, South Korea, France, Germany, Canada, China, Italy and Australia.

Concert Ticket Pricing + Music in Commercials

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:42:53 -0500

Nice story on ticket pricing in todays LA Times... Key numbers for the story,.... The average concert ticket price climbed to $61.58 last year from $25.81 in 1996. Tickets are generally priced based on the acts — and the demographics of their fans. The Cheetah Girls, for example, sold their tickets for an average of $35; Fallout Boy, $27. Seeing Barbra Streisand cost an average of $298. Music in Commercials... Love this; ATT :15 second spot with Mates of State doing their track "For The Actor" I have bookedmarked a bunch of sites that track music in commercials in the past. Came across this nice list today w/videos.

To The Edge Of Many Platforms

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:10:25 -0500

In distribution today, UMG and ITMS are making more ink than they need to... EMI + Snocap (this is news?).. and on the video front, Xbox LIVE's Marketplace Video-on-Demand service has offered downloads of movies, often in high definition, and download-to-own episodes of television shows for over a half year. No stats yet. What is crystal clear in this market place is that you have to take it to the edges. It's not enough to just have your own destination, you need to be able to convey your message and experience on others sites and networks. The EMI Snocap deal is only notable in that it provides a store front widget of sorts for bloggers to use. Furthermore, the competition for discretionary entertainment time and income is super intense. Hell. growing up my dollar had two choices; LPs or movies. Marketers thus need a clear and cool message and content holders must provide an experience which can be conveyed across several platforms. Only by pushing to the edges can the full potential for a project be completely realized.

Facebook Apps

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:17:24 -0500

We published a Facebook application today - for our mobile local SMS service - What's Up NYC. It had a dozen subs before we made it public.

Tipping Point Electronic Music Distribution

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:29:17 -0500

Back in the mid to late 90's there was plenty of talk on how traditional music retail was dying. It was of course, but has taken longer than many expected to fully disappear. The growth of digital music sales in the U.S. marketplace, coupled with the decline in purchases of shiny discs, has led to an important milestone. Apple's digital music store, iTunes, is now the third-largest music retailer in the United States with 10 percent market share, overtaking Amazon.com and Target Corp. in units sold. ITunes had a 9.8% market share , behind Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s 15.8% and Best Buy Co.'s 13.8%, according to NPD Group. Amazon.com had 6.7% and Target 6.6%, (via NPD Group) ---- Also today... This morning the New York Post's Peter Lauria reported that online music service Qtrax will launch in October of 2007 and has deals with all four major music groups. This is news? Two words Spiral Frog. There are many companies in the space and others that have deals with the majors. Plenty of companies have committed to an advances, agreed to licensing terms and promised monthly revenues. What would be news is if one of them worked!

CASRO Presentation

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:18:59 -0500

Mark really enjoyed speaking to the CASRO group today. He would like to thank Mickey, Jim, and the rest of the folks at MediaMark for including him. Please check out his report to learn more about the measurement of digital metrics in the ever-growing marketplace... Probing The Blogosphere.PDF

Indie Music Blogs - Food for thought

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:17:05 -0500

A snapshot of indiemusic blogs and their traffic trend over the last year.

Wiredset Does In The City

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:27:11 -0500

Wiredset will be in the house for In The City and moderating a panel all about social networks tomorrow (6/13) at 11AM. Come down to the panel (if you can) at the W Hotel in Union Square for some new knowledge.

CASRO - 12th Annual Technology Conference

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:17:49 -0500

Will be speaking at the 12th Annual Technology Conference CASRO Council of American Survey Research Organizations Thursday, June 21 2007 The Roosevelt Hotel, New York City 11:15 a.m. – Probing the Blogosphere: Real-Time Tracking of Internet Commerce and Buzz for Marketing Intelligence This presentation will show how the combination of web monitoring software with traditional and emerging market research tools and techniques can afford market researchers and their clients with increased opportunities for passively acquiring valuable tactical and strategic learning. First, we’ll contextualize the rapid emergence of both e-commerce and blogs. Then we’ll establish the scope of the e-commerce universe and the blogosphere. Finally, we’ll move to present several case studies illustrating the tracking and integration of disparate information to create business insights and marketing intelligence. James Collins, Senior Vice President, Research, Mediamark Research Inc. Mark Ghuneim, Chairman, Wiredset/Infofilter Mickey Galin, Vice President, Research, Mediamark Research Inc. http://www.casro.org/techform/2007-techconf.cfm

Recent 7" singles and Wax LP's

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:06:30 -0500

The Cinematics: Keep Forgetting The Airborne Toxic Event: Does This Mean You’re Moving On Ape Drape Escape: Traditional Music Black Lips: Cold Hands Carbon/Silicon: The News Grizzly Bear: Knife Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart Little Death: Countdown The Longcut: Idiot Check/You Got The Love Los Campensinos: You! Me! Dancing!\ Louie: I Know What You’re Doing Tonight! The Maccabees: Precious Time The Paper Cranes: I’ll Love You Until My Veins Explode Candie Payne: I Wish I Could have Loved You More The Pigeon Detectives: I’m Not Sorry Seventeen Evergreen: Haven’t Been Yourself Voxtrot: Blood Red Blood The Young Republic: Blue Skies LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends- Franz Ferdinand Version Bonde Do Role: Sotta O Frango/Rap Do CB LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends- John Cale Version LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends- Harvey Remix/Frak Out/Starry Eyes Deerhunter: Cryptograms WIlco: Sky Blue Sky Windmill: Puddle City Racing Lights Bonde Do Role: With Lasers The Cribs: Mens Need’s, Womens Need’s, Whatever The National: Boxer The Pigeon Detectives: Wait For Me

Online Metrics

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:47:23 -0500

Hook up this week.... This week besides Interpol and Veils shows we will be in the house for the Paid Content mixer and V.Cerf Google talk on Thursday Next week,... Wiredset will be at Digital Hollywood, Santa Monica, California Date: June 11-14, 2007 Location: Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel and Le Merigot I will be moderating a panel ...Monday, June 11 - Special Pre-Day Event 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Session C: Metrics and Analytics around Video, Social Media, P2P and User Generated Media Please email or call if you would like to meet or schedule time Also Monday in LA is LCD Soundsystem doing three nights- We will be in the house.

It's Nice To Share

Thu, 31 May 2007 18:24:57 -0500

Notes From The Edges RealNetworks Introduces New RealPlayer Rip/Save/Burn "All" Online Video Fomats with New Player YouTube and Yahoo Videos Are Easily Downloaded RealNetworks® unveiled the new RealPlayer®, the first media player to make it one-click simple to download online videos from thousands of Web sites. The new RealPlayer makes it easy for consumers to watch videos whenever and wherever they want, burn them to DVD and CD, and share video links with friends. Most major formats are supported, including Real, Windows Media, Flash, and Quicktime. The new RealPlayer will be available for free Nielsen: Some Commercial Ratings Top Program Ratings For example, NBC's "The Office" had a live program rating among adults 18-49 of 3.11 for the week of April 30. Its commercial rating for live viewing plus three days of DVR playback was a 3.36. 17 percent of U.S. households have DVRs and about 10 percent of broadcast prime-time viewing is seen via DVR playback. For cable, 97 percent of viewing is live, while 98 percent of viewing of syndicated shows is live. First Single From 'Planet Earth,' Prince's New Unreleased Album, Available Now - Free And Exclusively - From Verizon Wireless Prince's new single, "Guitar." Music fans can get the single today -- weeks before the highly-anticipated release of "Planet Earth," his new studio album release -- when they use Verizon Wireless' free new V CAST Song ID to identify the single. The direct All the Mag Stats You Can Handle (Adage) CosmoGirl rates No. 1 for youngest readers, with a median age of 23 (although we should note that MRI excludes minors from this research and fields a separate, more teen-centric study on other occasions). FEWEST WOMEN PER COPY: American Rifleman takes the prize for repelling women, snaring the attention of just 0.37 women per copy. Even Penthouse crushes that stat (it averages 1.41 women per copy). FEWEST MEN PER COPY: What do guys have against First for Women and Working Mother? Neither gets more than 0.06 men to look at any given copy. Woman's World gets five times that many.

Radio, Radio...

Wed, 30 May 2007 11:03:12 -0500

Today's News and Links ITMS launches iTunes Plus: iTunes Updated for DRM Free Music. Online radio heats up with investments both in the US and UK. CBS Corp. is buying a popular social-networking website - last.fm - organized around musical tastes for $280 million, combining a traditional broadcast giant with an early leader in online radio. And in the UK - GCap Media to step-up investment in on-line music stations. GCap Media PLC, the commercial radio company that operates the Capital Radio, Classic FM and XFM stations, is planning to step-up its investment in the online sector of the market in an attempt to rebuild revenues and audience numbers. The radio quote of the day - or the "Fine, then I am taking my marbles and going home" move - goes to Clear Channel Chief Exec John Hogan who reacts to the chatter about legislation around U.S. radio stations to pay for the right to play music.

"It would make broadcasters really rethink whether they want to be in the music business at all," says Clear Channel Radio Chief Executive John Hogan.

Advertising linkage includes a deeper look by the WSJ on why bud.net, despite earlier suggestions that it might scrap its struggling online entertainment channel, Anheuser-Busch has decided instead to revamp the website to make it edgier. All this intel and more found every day on our links page.

Today's Links

Tue, 29 May 2007 11:38:03 -0500

Tuesday Links notes.... On the music front, check out the Q&A with Hype Machine founder Anthony Volodkin. Also of note on the music blog agregation front is the launch of mobile elbows. On the artist front - good story in the WSJ, Playing Cellphones On Stage Has Ring Of Respectability. Mentioned Ms. Yoon has incorporated the phone into her solo act, using it alongside her voice and other instruments. She has also collaborated with musicians including Suphala, a tabla player and protégé of Indian legend Zakir Hussain. We are fortunate to be working with Suphala on her upcoming release. Stay tuned for details and music. Good items today covering walled gardens of MySpace. Web traffic questions. Stark disparity in firms' tracking of website visits (Los Angeles Times) New sites bookmarked include Ooyala and Particls. Television and advertising links include Turner Broadcasting System’s TNT and TBS plan to stream all seven of their combined original summer series on their respective websites. For the most part, they will be available the morning after they premiere on TV. For all of these individual links and more, visit today's links at Wiredset.com

Grace

Tue, 29 May 2007 11:05:12 -0500

Jeff Buckley 10 years gone today

Metrics

Wed, 16 May 2007 11:30:48 -0500

In The City Lineup

Tue, 08 May 2007 10:41:55 -0500

June 13th and 14th - Nokia Theater Happy Mondays The Rakes The Pigeon Detectives June 14th - Highline Ballroom Blood Red Shoes Enter Shikari Biffy Clyro

In The City of New York

Thu, 03 May 2007 17:11:19 -0500

Music Festivals: Coachella

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:26:13 -0500

Part of the Wiredset team will be west coast for Coachella and other events. We are psyched to be doing some cool mobile messaging around the event for the fourth straight year. This is always the festival that sets the bar highest for the season and with expanded days and killer line up its well on its way to creating the music memories that mean so much to so many. http://mobile.wiredset.com/coachella/ Give us a shout if you want to catch up

Tokyo Police Club likes action figures

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:17:31 -0500

and so does Wiredset. Therefore we really enjoy the new Tokyo Police Club video for Cheer It On

Radiohead Share New Track

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:25:42 -0500

In true Radiohead fashion, the band have premiered a clip of the recorded "15 Step" on their website. You have to do a bit of searching to get to it...but Wiredset is here to assist in the process. Its a bit of a task but you need to click the ‘HODIAU DIREKTION’ link at the top of the page on the Dead Airspace section. Don't say we never did anything for you...

Klaxons save the day

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:52:23 -0500

Klaxons continue their NYC escapades by filling in last minute (literally) for Lily Allen at the 55DSL party at Studio B. A few of the Wiredset kids were in the house and said it was a good time. Band played a short set but of course Golden Skans and Atlantis to Interzone was in there. You still have a chance to catch the band tonight at Studio B with Bonde Do Role.

NYC there's no need to stop

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:37:26 -0500

This week in New York has been mental... Monday - Saw The Stooges again and it was absolutely fantastic. Iggy is just brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. It was tempting to run onstage and do a SXSW Part 2 but we held back and let others enjoy the fun. Tuesday - Klaxons and Bonde Do Role tore up Bowery Ballroom. Golden Skans even sounds great live...awesome! If you missed them Tuesday you can still catch them Friday at Studio B. Tonight - Lily Allen at Irving Plaza (The Fillmore...whatever you want to call it) and the YO YO after party. Lily is always a pleasure and now she's added more of her lovely covers to her set. Also, Lily DJing should be a trip. Mixtape #1 and #2 were rad and homegirl has great song selection and some damn good mixing skills Tomorrow - Kaiser Cheifs at Roseland and Diesel Party at Studio B Friday - Klaxons and Bonde Do Role again. Gossip after party perhaps? Saturday - The Gossip at Knitting Factory. As long as Beth Ditto doesn't strip we're in the money. All for girl power and being yourself BUT 99.9% of people don't strip on stage...get the gist? Sunday - Pass out and sleep all damn day Till next week!

Lily Allen DJs in NYC

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:27:10 -0500

After her gig at the newly named Irving Plaza Miss Lily is going to be doing a DJ set.

Team Wiredset Goes Past 14th St

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:22:31 -0500

A couple of fine folks from thw Wiredset office decided to make the journey to 175th and Broadway to check out the new United Palace Theater and see Bloc Party and Albert Hammond Jr. Thoughts? The venue is far but its quite pretty. Note to any future attendees: use the bathroom and drink before as the line for both is long and annoying. Bloc Party can do no wrong and by the end of the Saturday night gig the band managed to have a massive crowd in front of the stage jumping and dancing in a seated venue. Solid set that ended with the crowd going mental to "Helicopter". Albert Hammond Jr sounds like Julien Casablancas...too many Strokes shows influencing him is the educated guess. Still, great record and good live performance from the Stroke with the 2nd best hair.

Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm Video

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:11:13 -0500

Dancing girls! Lights! Brianstorm!

MIKA Does The Big Apple

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:45:41 -0500

We've got a soft spot for Mika in this office and his first OFFICIAL New York show at the Gramercy Theater tonight is going to be a blast. Fear not if you missed the chance to get tickets to this insanly popular show....because Mika will be doing an in store performance and signing tomorrow at Borders in the Time Warner Center. Here are the details: Friday. March 30 4:00pm to 6:00pm BORDERS – TIME WARNER CENTER 10 Columbus Circle New York, NY 10019 You'll catch a couple of the crew there so come down and say hello.

Wiredset Loves SXSW

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:51:41 -0500

So much to share about SXSW but this clip says it all... Two of the Wiredset crew were in this mess we call "The Stooges - Live At Stubbs". Absolutely incredible.

Arctic Monkeys U.S. Tour Dates

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:26:21 -0500

Yes...we'll all be a Hammerstein... Of course the UK gets Amy Winehouse, Supergrass AND The Coral. Arctic Monkeys - 2007 Tour Dates 03-29 Tokyo, Japan - Zepp Club 04-27 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella) 05-01 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre * 05-02 Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre * 05-03 Seattle, WA - Showbox * 05-04 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom * 05-07 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue * 05-08 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre * 05-09 Pontiac, MI - Clutch Cargo's * 05-11 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus * 05-12 Montreal, Quebec - L'Olympia * 05-13 Boston, MA - Avalon * 05-15 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom * 05-16 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club * 05-17 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory * 05-19 Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle * 05-20 Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live * 05-28 Landgraff, Netherlands - Pinkpop 06-01 Nürnburgring, Germany - Rock am Ring 06-02 Nürnberg, Germany - Rock im Park 06-16 Dublin, Ireland - Malahide Castle 06-17 Dublin, Ireland - Malahide Castle 06-22-24 Somerset, England - Glastonbury Festival 06-29 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter 07-06 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park 07-21 Valencia, Spain - Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 07-28 Manchester, England - Lancashire County Cricket Ground # 07-29 Manchester, England - Lancashire County Cricket Ground # 08-11 Osaka, Japan - Summersonic 08-12 Tokyo, Japan - Summersonic * with Be Your Own Pet # with Supergrass, The Coral, Amy Winehouse

NY2LON SXSW Party RSVP

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:27:08 -0500

Get it while it's hot: NY2LON SXSW RSVP »

Coachella Mobile 2007

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:24:21 -0500

Wiredset launches 6 mobile lists for Coachella 2007! Check it out »

Wiredset Returns To SXSW...

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:21:48 -0500

...With On-Demand Scheduling, Text Messaging Services for SXSW 2007. NEW YORK, March 5, 2007 -- Wiredset announced Monday it will be the technology provider for official SMS messaging, text alerts, festival listings and updates for this year's SXSW Music, Interactive and Film festivals and conferences. All band and film schedules will be available on demand to attendees' mobile devices via interactive SMS. Important festival information will be available on the go by texting requests to Wiredset's 56658 shortcode. Keep reading »

The Stooges Unveil New Track

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:20:07 -0500

With the anticipation of The Weirdness coming (March 6th...only a few more days!) another track has emerged from the album. Here is a stream of "Free and Freaky": Real ASX

Deeper Look at Todays Links

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:53:10 -0500

Notes from todays daily links... The top 10 real tones for '06 as announced by mobile distribution service 9-Squared ere all hip hop / urban tracks. Lots of campus music chatter including renewed copyright efforts by the RIAA which yielded a list of top infringing schools. Label reps are now more focused at tapping personnel from the same sector with internship and talent searches. Schools that llegally download the most music include University of Tennessee, Ohio and Purdue universities, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of South Carolina. Nice paper on line by IBM - Navigating the media divide Although traditional media revenues still dwarf those of new media, the latter category is expected to grow much faster--20% compared to 6% for old media from 2006 to 2010. Other reports include taking sides on who will win the bandwidth wars. ... The phone companies, with all their DSL and fiber lines combined, may eventually grab 47.5% of U.S. households while cable grabs 52.5%. But as cable starts to lure away subscribers who aren’t near a fiber line, cable’s share rises to 64% Other market place predictions surfaced in our link blog included this report - Annual consumer spending on Internet downloads of movies and TV shows will top $4 billion in 2011, up from just $111 million last year, according to a study released on Wednesday by Adams Media Research.

Sasquatch 2007!

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:00:22 -0500

The line-up for Sasquatch was announced the other day. And of course the Beastie Boys will be there - Sasquatch is their bud... Full Line up

Music Blog Buzz -

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:50:59 -0500

nyc - why we live here

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:43:37 -0500

It snowed Tuesday - The Arcade Fire played

Razorlight Tours America

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:28:36 -0500

Lots of tour info on our end today... UK favorites Razorlight are about to win over the States with their upcoming 2007 tour. Here are the dates: 2/26 - Bowery Ballroom New York, NY 3/1 - Mod Club Toronto, CANADA 3/3 - Martys Chicago, IL 3/4 - Varsity Theatre, Minneapolis, MN 3/8 - Slims San Francisco, CA 3/9 - El Rey Theatre Los Angeles, CA 3/10 - Casbah San Diego, CA 3/12 - Salon 21 Mexico City, MEXICO 3/14-3/18 - SXSW NME Showcase Austin, TX NY is already sold out. Chicago is already sold out. See a pattern? Thats means buy your tickets now. Victoria from the office says so...

The Stooges Tour 2007

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:31:17 -0500

The Stooges have announced their first tour in support of their upcoming album The Weirdness Here are the tour dates: Mar 8 - Caprices Festival Crans-Montana Mar 17 - SXSW Festival Austin, TX Apr 7 - Orpheum Boston, MA Apr 9 - United Palace New York, NY Apr 13 - Fox Theatre DETROIT, MI Apr 17 - Filmore Auditorium Denver, CO Apr 19 - The Warfield San Francisco, CA Apr 27 - WaMu Theater at Qwest Field Events Seattle, WA Jul 21 - Tromso Open Air Festival Bukta

SXSW Mobile Alerts

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:52:46 -0500

Like last year we are working with SXSW on mobile messaging alerts. Get Dialed in. http://2007.sxsw.com/toolbox/sms/ Not a SXSW Registrant? Even without a badge for SXSW, you can still easily stay in the loop. To sign up for general updates and alerts about SXSW 2007 just send the text message sx add to 56658 from your mobile phone! We'll make sure you don't miss out!

media summit -

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:36:39 -0500

Moderated a panel on metrics and measurement in the web 2.0 VOD mobile sectors today at Media Summit in NYC. Good times and a lot of good knowledge dropped. Some one took notes as I acoss this post on the panel A Media Circ.us 2007 Media Summit Unedited Notes- Metrics and Analytics around Video, Social Media, P2P and User Generated Media

7' Singles Club

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:17:54 -0500

Week 3 '07 recent singles. Foreign Islands - We Know You Know it The Hours - Back When You Were Good Noisettes - Sister Rosetta (capture the spirit) Bloc Party - The Prayer Pop Levi - Sugar Assault Me Now Future of the Left - Fingers Become Thumbs Aereogramme - Barriers Klaxons - Golden Skans

Street Art Advertising Gone Wrong - Never Forget

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:46:44 -0500

Tuesday Shows...

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:34:17 -0500

Nice night in nyc ... Paul Weller doing Style Council songs and Peter, Bjorn and John at the Bowery.

2007 Media Summit

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:44:13 -0500

If you're in the NY area on Feb. 7th, check out Media Summit New York Wednesday, February 7th 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Strategic Track - Session B: Metrics and Analytics around Video, Social Media, P2P and User Generated Media Jonathan Carson, President and CEO BuzzMetrics Will Hodgman, President & CEO, M:Metrics Kenneth Papagan, Executive Vice President, Corporate, Business Development & Strategic Planning, Rentrak Corporation Scott Radcliffe, Director of Communications Intelligence Solutions, SAS Additional speakers to be Announced Kenneth Papagan, Executive Vice President, Corporate, Business Development & Strategic Planning, Rentrak Corporation David Rosenberg, Director, Emerging Media and Optimization, JWT Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski, Strategy and Legal Affairs, Oversi Mark Ghuneim, CEO, Wiredset, Moderator 2007 Media Summit: More Info »

The Stooges - The Weirdness

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:18:06 -0500

After 33 years of waiting, here is the tracklisting for the new Stooges album "The Weirdness", which will be released on March 6th via Virgin Records. 1. Trollin' 2. You Can't Have Friends 3. ATM 4. My Idea Of Fun 5. The Weirdness 6. Free & Freaky 7. Greedy Awful People 8. She Took My Money 9. End Of Christianity 10. Mexican Guy 11. Passing Cloud 12. I'm Fried Go to our MP3 blog to download the first single, "My Idea of Fun"

WIREDSET ANNOUNCES NEW MARKETING TEAM

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:03:38 -0500

WIREDSET ANNOUNCES NEW MARKETING TEAM NEW YORK, Jan. 22 -- Wiredset announced Monday a series of appointments to its marketing department that will strengthen the company's ability to break ground with creative digital marketing campaigns for leading media, music, film, gaming and fashion companies. The appointments by Wiredset Vice President of Marketing, Grant Johmann, include Victoria Tsigonis as Director of Marketing, John Creech and Audrey Diaz as Managers of Online Marketing, and Paul Josephsen as Coordinator of Online Marketing. more »

Remix The Death Set

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:24:08 -0500

Wiredset loves the Death Set. Wiredset also loves remixes. What happens when you have the chance to remix the Death Set? Let's just say we love it... Click here to remix the Death Set and the best ones will end up on one of their pressed vinyls. DJs unite!

Tech blogger booth CES

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:10:02 -0500

Tech blogger booth
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What tech bloggers look like at CES

CES / MacWorld Blogging and News

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:24:12 -0500

Short list of blogs and event blogging from CES and Apples events this week. Engadget Live blogging from both CES and Macworld CES Notebook - WSJ.com CES Blog ces.blogs.com NYT Bits Mac World News As always keep track of whats up 24/7 with our linkblog.

Mika - Introducing Mika (at Podcast Alley)

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:00:11 -0500

My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-0c86a6c04729758ed4cfb02a6c180d80} It's a British invasion. "Life in Cartoon Motion" hits stores March 27, 2007.

2006 Year End.

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:08:01 -0500

The end of the year is always marked by lists. Some of my favorite meta lists. Nielsen Issues Most Popular Lists for 2006 Going forward they this information will be released publicly on a regular basis. Most downloaded digital single clocked 1,880,000 downloads (Daniel Powter - Bad Day) While Akon - Smack That clocked 1,220,000 ring tones. A couple of good meta music lists Radio Airplay Leaders for the Most Played Artists on Radio Largehearted Boy: 2006 Year-end Music Lists djmartian's bookmarks tagged with "b2006" on del.icio.us even arists have year end favs...Top of the stars' playlists Video was the new black for '06. A video list of lists from Reel Pop: Top Ten List of Top Ten Lists of Top Ten Online Videos Google Zeitgeist 2006 is always a good year end read. AOL has posted their 2006 Year End Hot Searches MSN The Top of Live Search for 2006. -Top product searches ...ipod #3 Zune not on the list. Yahoo Top Searches of 2006 Perhaps the most telling Yahoo! list is.. Top 10 Song Lyric Searches which reads like an order of causal query's.. 1 Hips Don't Lie 2 My Humps 3 Grillz 4 Unfaithful 5 Bad Day 6 Beep There is the Top Movie Posters, and Music videos and Fimoculous list of lists The Wiredset office have posted our year end, year's best (below) including the list I make each year. Mediaeater - 2006 Year End, Year's best Top Recordings,Shows I liked this year end list graphic from Catbirdseat... (click for larger view)

Food Bank PSA's

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:37:26 -0500

The Food Bank NYC PSA The Food Bank NYC has an appetite for ending hunger. This short video illustrates the relationship between hunger and poverty, asking the question, "can we break the cycle?" Check out this PSA and visit FoodBankNYC.org for more information.

Wiredset Staff 2006 Year End, Year's Best.

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:40:50 -0500

Mark: Top 15 Albums (in order) > Band Of Horses - Everything All the Time The Decemberists - The Crane Wife TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy J Dilla - Donuts Lily Allen - Alright, Still Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers The Automatic - Not Accepted Anywhere Hot Chip - The Warning Golden Smog - Another Fine Day Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles of A Bohemian Teenager Thom Yorke - The Eraser ----tbd Mark: Top 20 7" Singles (not in order) > -released as single uk or us Hot Chip - Boy From School Gnarls Barkley - Crazy The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes CSS: Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts Liars - The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack Lily Allen - Smile Fields - Song For The Fields Band of Horses - The Funeral Clap Your Hands Say Yeah In This Home on Ice Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks The Blow - Pile of Gold Golden Smog - Corvette 3:51 TV on the Radio ' Wolf Like Me Clearlake - Good Clean Fun The Automatic - Recover The Knife- Like a Pen Sparklehorse - Knives of Summertime 120 Days - Come Out (Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone) Muse - Supermassive Black Hole Mark: 12" Remixes (6 random order)> Gorillaz - Kids with Guns (Hot Chip Remix!) Muse 'Supermassive Black Hole (Phones Control Voltage Mix)' 06 Metric 'Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)' Teah Yeah Yeahs 'Cheated Hearts (Peaches Remix)' Bloc Party 'Helicopter (Weird Science Remix feat. Peaches)' Boards of Canada Trans Canada Highway Mark: Top Live Music Shows (12: not in order) > Band of Horses - Bowery Ballroom Editors - SXSW BBC Show Brakes - SXSW BBC Show Arctic Monkeys - Mercury Lounge Stars - Webster Hall David Ford - Panios TV on The Radio - Coachella Bloc Party - Coachela Hot Chip - m3 Miami Metric - Webster Hall Lily Allen - Hiro Ballro Daft Punk - Coachella Grant: Top 10 Items from Western Beef (Local supermarket and haven of unhealthy and cheap snacks) > 1. Barbeque Potato Chips 2. Duplex Creme Cookies 3. Easy Mac (in the microwavable individual packets) 4. Fiesta Mix 5. Pringles with "Nice Seasoning" 6. Milky Way Snack Packet 7. Sesame Breaksticks 8. 99 Cent Individual Fruit Pies 9. Lard Donuts (6 pack) 10. Barbeque Potato Chips - Yes, so good you gotta include it twice. Grant: Top 10 Annoying Things About the Wiredset Office > 1. Mysterious Gas Fumes 2. Victoria's Annoying Questions 3. Delivery Men Coming into the Wrong Office 4. Jukebox Wars 5. Grant's Cursing Outbursts 6. Lack of Experienced Receptionist 7. Taking the Stairs Between Noon and 1pm 8. Bad Interns 9. Seth's Sneezing 10. No Close Fast Food Options Jon: Top Albums of 2006 > 1. The Knife - Silent Shout 2. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier 3. The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love 4. Hot Chip - The Warning 5. The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out 6. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury 7. Cansei de Ser Sexy - CSS 8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones 9. Love is All - Nine Times that Same Song 10. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time 11. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo 12. Teddybears - Teddybears Jon: Top 10 Moments of 2006 at the Wiredset Office > 1. Playing "Physical" with Tony Wilson overhearing 2. Mark yelling at the delivery person - "Hey Ace!" 3. The Inauguration of the Jukebox 4. Discovering Kwame "The Last Soul Brotha" 5. Berman the doorman telling Victoria not to touch his things 6. Breaking out the Monster Ballads for the first time 7. Anytime a pigeon image is sent to Victoria 8. Seth showing the office his appearance on Room Raiders 9. Grant's short obession with Virtual Laguna Beach (another Kwame inspired moment) 10. Figuring out John Elway's role in Real World: Denver Appendix - Us in South Park Morgan: Top Ten Albums > 6 Favs Of The Year: Brazilian Girls - Talk to La Bomb TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere The Rapture - Pieces of the People we Love Hot Chip - The Warning Honorable Mentions: The Grates - Gravity Won't Get You High Ratatat - Classics Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere Audio Bullys - Generation Seth: Top Ten Albums > 1. Cat Power - The Greatest 2. The National - Alligator (came out in 2005, but makes my list for the 2nd straight year as I couldn't stop listening) 3. Metric - Live It Out (see #2) 4. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope (not as solid as Soviet Kitsch, but "On The Radio" and "Hotel Song" are great) 5. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (not out until 2007, but already listening to a lot) 6. Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City (see #5) 7. Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo To Anywhere 8. The Secret Machines - 10 Silver Drops 9. Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat 10. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain 11. Beck - The Information Audrey: Top 10 In Reggaeton > 1. Noche De Sexo – Wisin y Yandel Feat. Aventura - Pal Mundo 2. Atrevete Te' Te'– Calle 13 3. Calienta y Pega - El Tio 4. Me Quiere Besar - Alexis Y Fido 5. Ella y Yo – Aventura Feat. Don Omar – God's Project 6. Dembow - Tempo Ft Wisin Y Yandel, 7. Myspace - Don Omar Ft Wisin Y Yandel, 8. Si Tu Te Vas – Cheka 9. Down – Rakim Y Ken-Y 10. Noche De Entierro – Various Artists (Hector El Father, Daddy Yankee, Tony Tun Tun, Wisin y Yandel) Los Benjamins Audrey: Top 10 In Latin Hip Hop > 1. Put Ya Hands In The Air - Cheka Ft Keesha, Castro,& Juno, 2. I Wonder Why - Gringo 3. Se La Pueden Buscar (Cosa Noztra) - Arcangel Y De La Ghetto 4. What You Wanna Do (Habla Claro) - Noztra Ft Arcangel, 5. Descarada - Pitbull 6. Que Tu Sabe D'Eso - Pitbull Ft FatJoe Y Sinful, 7. Depression (LDA Y Bigmato Diss) - Noztra, 8. Suave - Calle 13 9. Mentira – Don Dinero Feat. Temperamento 10. El Anormal -Chyno Nyno Bryan: Backwards from 10: 2006 Classic Shit! > 10. Lupe Fiasco's 'Food & Liquor' - it restored my faith in hip hop 9. Intelligent interns make the workplace go 'round 8. subway musicians and the hustle 7. the hope Eminem starts making dope songs again 6. the hope Seth will not be coughing the next time he comes in 5. Thursday night at Frank's for free beer 4. The impending release of John Public's classic first album, "The Thrift Shop Experience" 3. the ocean - especially when it threatens to wash over city shoes and city jeans 2. latin women... need i say more?? 1. thoughts looking in from the WTC middle platform on a crisp, freezing morning and the feel of the fence on bare hands

7" Single Club

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:06:06 -0500

Last two weeks 7" Singles The Luminaries - Jumping The Great White Palace Fires - Never Gonna Get Away The Rapture - W.A.Y.U.H People Don't Dance No More White Rose Movement - Love Is A Number Art Brut - Nag Nag Nag Nag Muse - Nights of Cydonia Damien Rice - 9 Crimes Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - War Of The Worlds The Killers - Bones DJ Foundation - Grace - Stand Still The Fratellis - Whistle For The Choir Howeling Bells - Setting Sun The Death Set - Intermission Breaks - Hold Me in The River The Sounds - Tony The Beat Lee Hazelwood - Baghdad Knights Prinzhorn Dance Schoool