StubHub, a large website on which tickets are traded, says the average concert-ticket price dropped by 18% between 2008 and 2010.The long boom in live music, which saw American revenues rise from less than $1 billion in 1995 to $4.6 billion in 2009, has paused.
For a large website like the Houston Chronicle's Chron.com or Boston.com, which has dozens of hyperlocal sites, it's an easy way to expand and manage local advertising with a clean user interface.
"What we have designed and built is a social network for music, not in the form of a large website and links but something very simple," says CEO Steve Jang.
If your website just has some information and pictures (and videos ) of the DJ then you'll need very little space, say like 10MB-2GB but if it's a large website of the DJ with forums and games where users can sign up in your DJ website the space will eventually increase.
Eurekster, a twenty person company located in San Francisco and New Zealand, has a profitable business (called Search Publisher) that provides customized search results to a number of large websites.
"We come from a background of running large websites with lots of user-generated content," he told me.
When I get vile emails or tweets, often one my first thoughts is, "Well, I don't have it as bad as [insert the name of activist/writer/critic/author/ creator/artist here]." I'm not a fantasist: I know large websites and social media networks will never be able to rid themselves of all abusive behavior, whether it arrives on a hashtag or not.
"We have a very large website.
And to reinforce that point, several large websites and a host of smaller ones are attempting to "cover the web" on Wednesday with icons showing a "Loading... .. message as part of a symbolic "Internet Slowdown".
The massive jump comes from the FCC chewing through a deluge of comments that were filed last week as part of a public campaign that saw large websites ask their users to speak up on net neutrality.
