Deezer Goes Boldly Global, Thumbing Its Nose At U.S.
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The Deezer music subscription service has put a June 2012 deadline on its already-announced plan to roll out in over 200 countries – a globa… Read more »
7digital Music Adds Microsoft To Its App List, Still Awaits Apple Approval
Music downloads may have taken a backseat to streaming services like Spotify in the buzz stakes, but with iTunes still driving more music sa… Read more »
Report: Apple To Give 4G A Shot In Arm With Next-Generation iPad, iPhone
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We’ve seen some significant strides for LTE in the past year — with some big names like Verizon and AT&T (NYSE: T) getting behind the fast… Read more »
Industry Moves: Vuguru; BBC; Vevo; Jun Group; MWW
– Vuguru: The independent studio founded by Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company has hired entertainment veteran Scott Nocas as head of distri… Read more »
Spotify Launching Integrated Apps Within Its Platform
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration t… Read more »
Video: Noel Gallagher On How Technology Is Devaluing The Music Experience
iTunes, Shazam and crowdfunding get a pasting from the former Oasis musician as he promotes his solo album (language not safe for some workp… Read more »
Shazam Is Buying Back Its Own Core Patents To Go Multi-Media
in a move illustrating the growing role of technology patents, mobile music service Shazam is buying back some of its intellectual property… Read more »
First Look: Spotify's TiVo App On Virgin Media UK
Virgin Media has finally made live Spotify’s first UK TV app. Virgin Media customers who are Spotify Premium subscribers can access the musi… Read more »
Chart: Spotify's Growth Story; Next Stop: 100 Million Users?
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Spotify is getting its systems in order to support a planned 100 million users in the future, job openings suggest.
But, as it prepares to… Read more »
Rolling Stone Releasing Beatles' Guide For iPad; Mag Apps Coming In '12
Rolling Stone magazine will release an iPad app companion this week for its The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide book this week, a… Read more »
Now With 2.5 Million Customers, Spotify Tries Patenting Itself
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Spotify’s paying customer base has grown by 25 percent (500,000) since Facebook started letting users spurt out their listening habits on Se… Read more »
Prometheus Execs Make Their Exodus, As Billboard Searches For Direction
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Over the past few weeks, as Prometheus Global Media, the owner of b-to-b trade magazines Adweek, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Back… Read more »
Spotify Announcing 'A New Direction' Next Week; What Is It?
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Spotify has invited press to an intriguing “global press conference” in New York next Wednesday, November 30, to answer the question “What’s… Read more »
France Wants To Tax ISPs To Fund Music, Add Streaming To Three-Strikes Law
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Away from the Eurozone crisis, France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy has come up with one way to raise more funds in his country for one strugg… Read more »
Why Facebook Is The Real Winner With Google's Mediocre Music Strategy
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The digital music market is not in a great place right now and is in need of some major change: CD sales are still shrinking more quickly th… Read more »
Big In Sweden: Spotify-Crazy Youngsters Are Bellwether For Music Biz
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Spotify’s early traction in its native Sweden gives the world a glimpse at what a market looks like when strong music subscription services… Read more »
How The Stop Online Piracy Act Will Kill Innovation
America is fond of chiding other nations about freedom of speech in the internet age. Leaders including President Obama and Secretary of Sta… Read more »
Updated: Google Music Launches, Songs For Sale And Free Cloud Storage
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Google’s take on online music services evolved Tuesday with the launch of Google Music, a free service that will let users upload 20,000 son… Read more »
Call Of Duty Maker Booms As Vivendi Sells A Stake To Buy EMI
When Vivendi (EPA: VIV) announced it was buying EMI’s recorded music division last week, it cryptically said the deal would see it sell “500… Read more »
It's Time For Transparency On Music Streaming Rates
Major labels may be hoping that new-wave digital music jukeboxes can make up for slowing downloads growth. But a drip-drip of labels pulling… Read more »
Report: Google To Put A Piece Into Its Music Puzzle With Universal Deal
On the heels of news last week that it has secured EMI’s recorded music division for nearly $2 billion, Universal Music is again in the news… Read more »
Tencent Launches A Shanzhai iTunes To Sync Your iPhone, iPad
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Tencent (HKG:0700), China’s social media giant, has thumbed its nose at Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) (NASDAQ:AAPL) by releasing a desktop ‘App Assista… Read more »
Apple Launches iTunes Match, But Puts Temporary Hold On New Subscriptions
It took a little longer than expected, but Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched iTunes Match Monday with the release of a new version of iTunes just… Read more »
Spotify Expected To Launch In More Countries This Week
Spotify is ready to launch in Belgium, Austria and Switzerland, possibly as early as this week, paidContent understands. Read more »
EMI Group Split Between UMG And Sony
Four years after the whole label sold to Terra Firma for £4.2 ($6.69) billion, now one half of EMI Group – the record music division, EMI M… Read more »
Vevo Mulling Premium Content, Global Expansion In 2012
“Charging or user subscription is not something that exists on the platform at the moment but is something being looked at for 2012,” Vevo’s… Read more »
Spotifies May Steal Customers From Pandoras, With Facebook's Help
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Unlimited-access music subscription services will take almost a third of consumers’ digital music spending by 2015, analyst firm Gartner rec… Read more »
What Twitter's Latest Move Means For Other Social TV Players
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As social TV emerges as something beyond an experiment for advertisers and TV networks, Twitter is eager to take a bigger role in connecting… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11-08-11
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» NYT Digital Head Martin Nisenholtz Retiring; Won’t Be Replaced; (paidContent; paidContent)
» New York Times (NYSE:… Read more »
Update: BPI Asks BT To Block BitTorrent Site Pirate Bay, Or It's Court Time
A new twist today in the battle of media companies trying to stop their content from being distributed by illegal means online: the UK’s mai… Read more »
More Proof Of A New Nook Tablet–And It's Priced $50 Above The Kindle Fire
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has been widely expected to reveal a new tablet at an event to be held in New York next Monday, and now we are st… Read more »
@ pcE11: Tercek: The Content Is The Container
Robert Tercek, the former MTV exec and ex-president, Digital Media of Discovery’s OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, closed paidContent Enterta… Read more »
@ pcE11: Where Do You Build Your Brand?
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When it comes to marketing, some things are obvious: Twitter is important. Facebook is more important (at least so far). Holding onto those… Read more »
Two Tracks For Digital Music: Aspiro White Label Deal; 7digital Tablet App
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expect… Read more »
OpenEMI, An Innovation Files Case Study
Following on from Part 1 of the ‘Innovation Files’ series, this post looks at EMI’s OpenEMI initiative and how it could drive transformation… Read more »
Amazon Prime Kindle Lending Library Opens For Business — With A Catch
Two weeks ahead of the shipping date for the Kindle Fire, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding more to its all-you-can-eat media buffet for Amazon… Read more »
This Thursday: paidContent Entertainment, Hollywood
paidContent Entertainment: Everything Everywhere is this Thursday, November 3rd in West Hollywood. We’ve tweaked the program, the format, an… Read more »
Apple Misses October Deadline For U.S. Launch Of iTunes Match
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Apple’s iTunes Match service appears to have gotten lost amid the Halloween candy. Despite promises that it would launch its Internet-based… Read more »
Rdio, Spotify Race To Launch In LatAm, Germany, Asia
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Music subscription services are about to face off on the global stage. Rdio, kickstarted by Skype’s founders, is embarking on the internatio… Read more »
Why iTunes Isn’t A Digital Vampire
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Pete Townsend from The Who has called iTunes a ‘Digital Vampire’. As much as the claim makes for nice headlines, it is misplaced and poorly… Read more »
