Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Rocking the Daisies 2018 chokes on their ‘no personal drinks’ announcement Rocking the Daisies 2018 probably made their worst PR blunder to date last Friday and, what seems right now, to be a branding nightmare. With one month to go, Cape Town’s ‘biggest musical festival’ (as claimed by promoter, George Avakian – see cringeworthy Twitter […]
Euphonik struggles to get Facebook page back after fall out with management company Euphonik has no access to his Facebook DJ page. “At CSA we have a passion for working with and promoting African talent across the continent and around the world. Welcoming Euphonik to the family is another step in our mission to create […]
Artist page engagements biggest loser on Facebook algorithm Hunger Games: Facebook news feed – especially for artist page engagements. I’m not talking about a new movie where Jennifer Lawrence is part of social media circles that have to defeat each other behind keyboards; I’m talking about the changes made to FB news feed algorithms that […]
Facebook and Instagram are implementing a time limit feature Take a time-out from Facebook and Instagram. Addiction: the fact or condition of being addicted (dependent, craving, habit, compulsion, weakness, enslavement) to a particular substance or activity Most people are addicted to cell phones and social media, spending massive chunks of their day scrolling, commenting, liking […]
Facebook is rolling out several music features on its platform Facebook is ready to roll out its new music features. After making several moves to bring music onto its 2 billion user strong platform, social media giant FB is ready to roll out with it new features. From Tuesday users from select countries will be […]
Facebook AI can change a song’s genre on the fly Facebook AI is musically inclined. If music is the universal language, then genres can be seen as accents and let’s face it, accents are mighty exciting! Naturally songs are put into certain genres and you might get remixes of said songs in different genres, but […]
Facebook scores music licensing deal with ICE Facebook scores music licensing deal with ICE. With the internet, copyright and the payment of royalties to rightsholders is something that cannot be ignored, and although somewhat tricky is something that companies need to focus on. Yesterday Facebook took the next step towards becoming honourable in this regard […]
Facebook Downvote option being tested It’s the dawn of a Facebook Downvote button, possibly. The thought of a ‘dislike’ button on Facebook has been around since the birth of the ‘like’ button. As with everything in life, we strive for a balance between positive and negative. The dislike option, called Downvote is currently being tested […]
New Facebook policy blocks deceptive financial ads; cryptocurrency A new Facebook policy aims to shut out deceptive and misleading ads. In a blog post, Product Management Director Rob Leathern divulged: “Two of our core advertising principles outline our belief that ads should be safe, and that we build for people first. Misleading or deceptive ads […]
DJs and artists could say goodbye to Facebook News Feed It’s time to bid farewell to the Facebook News Feed as we know it. On Thursday the 11th of January, Mark Zuckerberg announced a News Feed ‘remodeling’. Zuckerberg today wrote: “Recently we’ve gotten feedback from our community that public content — posts from businesses, brands […]
