Brilliant....Mr Adam Buxton

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In light of a 'potential' closure of 6 Music, great news for Indie bands

You may be vaguely aware that some YouTube videos aren't embeddable on external sites, like ours, or indeed on many blogs. This is because record labels don't get any revenue from their artists' clips that are posted elsewhere - other than the main YouTube website. Aside from, y'know, all that PROMOTION which an embeddable video would cause.

This caused much consternation from bands and bloggers alike, and rightly. If you're going to make a video, you want people to actually watch it, after all. The most prominent of the outspoken artists are those fine makers of viral music videos OK GO, who expressed their disgust and annoyance at the whole thing - and their record label, EMI - earlier in the year.

Thankfully, and finally, things may now be moving in the right direction to this (via Wired), as on YouTube's newly-launched 'Musicians Wanted' channel, artists will be able to make money through video views, including views which are on external sites, with embedded content. A statement, to be posted on YouTube's blog reads:
“Whether you make hip-hop, folk, noise-rock, jazz or a genre of your own invention, we are looking for all types of original music video content.”

However, the videos uploaded to the partner page actually have to be videos, not that old trick of an mp3 uploaded to a background image and no moving pictures. That would be cheating. The sections, devoted to independent music, will be searchable in the aim of helping people sift through the mass of content which will feature.
So, although independent artists may not get the amount of revenue that major labels do, at least it will leave them not having to split the revenue with their record label. All of this is very much A Good Thing.

Glenn Brown, YouTube's head of business said:
“Our goal in all these partner programs is to help people get to that point where they hear the most beautiful words a creative person can hear, which is ‘You can quit your day job,’ and some of our partners have already done that.”
As mentioned previously, OK GO were pretty narked at the whole thing, and wrote an open letter recently. Funnily enough, they were one of the first bands to sign up to 'Musicians Wanted'. Damian Kulash, of OK GO, told Wired:

“What’s tremendously freeing about starting our own label is that we can now distribute our work however we want to, and we can look for new and interesting ways to make a living off of it without constantly chafing against the constraints of a big label with a rat’s nest of conflicting agendas.

“The YouTube Partners Program, and specifically the Musicians Wanted division of it, is a great example. We can distribute our videos the way we want to (embeddable!), and actually make some money off it, to boot. A couple months ago our hands were tied by the embedding restrictions at our label, and the money that was generated from our streams wasn’t winding up in our pocket. Now we’re enabling embedding and we’ll collect a check every month. It’s a pretty obvious win/win.

Credit to Drowned in Sound for the article

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Lets hope that Atoms for Peace make an appearance on UK shores in the coming months, but Portishead done my Mr Jonny Greenwood (Axe factor! Vote! if you listen to 6 Music) and Mr Thom Yorke, simply beautiful.....

6 Music - A necessity in the role of British Music.

"Less is more" "To focus on quality programming" "We want to do less better". The frequent buzz sentences I have heard on the T.V and the Internet this week from the lovable Director General Mark Thompson. First off let me introduce 6 Music, in a world where people crave the £££ hence why you dont find this kind of station on commercial giants such as Global and Bauer, 6 Music provides insightful broadcasting by its DJ's and identifiable music that wouldnt be played elsewhere because its not "popular".

Where else can I join the Black Squadron as I wake up on a Saturday morning (not for the meantime COME BACK ADAM and JOE!), hear such funny piss takes out of skins, great music sessions, insightful musical musings by Laverne during the week, Craig Charles bringing us Funk and Soul, Nemone's voice that gets me everytime and yes although everybody hates the man (and i do understand why with what 6 Music stands for) listening to George Lamb and Marc Hughes
bantering away but at the same time playing great music that in my eyes is very unique.

BUT! hold the phone a niche BOMBSHELL has struck at the BBC, to be more economically efficient it seems that the big wigs at the BBC want to get rid of such a station that serves as a great memory to a man who dedicated his life to music John Peel.

Now having studied Business at University (lord I wish I hadn't) from a commercial prospective although still wrong I can understand a need to lose a station with a niche market, what with advertising etc (sorry people thats just the way business is sometimes), but what I can't get my head around is that the BBC is a PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTER and with such programmes doesnt need to focus on ratings and listeners numbers nearly as much as a commercial broadcaster and i've had this answer come from Mark Thompson on Newsnight and Helen Boaden who came to Lincoln to give a talk (when i questioned her about it), IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE.

Another scenario which strikes me as odd is the cost of 6 Music compared to other stations at the BBC. In 2009 the BBC spent £9 million on 6 Music, this compared to £115 million on BBC Three which although at times can be entertaining surely the Beeb could cut costs on such pointless programmes like Date my Daughter, Snog? Marry? Avoid? Young Butcher of the year or the ever magnificent I believe in UFO's by Danny Dyer, is this really what people want to see, I call this a social experiment in humiliation by all acounts.

£3.4 Billion and 6 Music costs £9 million to run (thats a tenth of Mark Thompsons enourmous salary), its not exactly an economic nightmare having 6 Music which brings new music to the masses and brings hope to new bands/artists who's music would never see the light of day on Radio 1 or even 'slippers on' Radio 2, can we honestly say that music broadcasters on the more 'popular' stations would give La Roux, Florence and the Machine and Ellie Goulding (although she has been sucked into the machine) the light of day without 6 Music pushing it right from the start.

Lets hope the many protests which have developed (much praise to the Morters) spark a change with the directors which leads them to reverse this appauling decision. On a final note Beeb dont fear the absolute biscuits that are the Murdochs or a potential new government, maybe look into presenter salaries especially those who's shows are now pre-recorded aka watered down for harassing old men, or presenters who create such art like Car Park Catchphrase, have a good look BBC have a good long look.

P.S Listened to a song by Caribou today called Odessa on Lauren Laverne's mid morning show, I wonder if Scott Mills would play that inbetween pranking a Scottish pizza parlour, hmmmmm quality broadcasting.