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 »
The Morning Lowdown 11-30-11
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» FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be ‘Liked’ (paidContent)
» Bets on Spotify’s news – radio… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Let’s Get Physical: Spotify Latest To Sell Digital Content In Stores
Manifesting digital content in physical form seems to work pretty well as a go-to-market retail strategy. Read more »
Some Marketers Are Blowing It With Facebook And Twitter
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Companies blitzing consumers with messages on Facebook and Twitter in a frantic attempt at engagement are about to learn a tough lesson: It’… 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 »
Industry Moves: Shine, Bearing Point, MIG, Spotify
Some of the latest executive hiring and exits in the digital media and online content industry… Read more »
Virgin Media’s Spotify Discounts Will Be Short-Term
When Virgin Media’s CEO said this summer he would bundle Spotify with his services at “significantly less” than Spotify’s own £9.99 Premium… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-28-11
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» Emily Gould And The Rise Of The Indie E-Bookseller (paidContent)
» Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spin… Read more »
The Awkward, Unanswered Questions That Led to Coldplay’s Spotify Embargo
Coldplay have opted to not have their latest album Mylo Xyloto made available on streaming services…all of them, though of course Spo… Read more »
Research: Spotify Had 2.4 Million U.S. Users In September
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Since Spotify launched in the U.S. this July, various folks have taken a stab at ascertaining its popularity. Here is another from comScore,… Read more »
Pandora Learns The Hard Way, Mobile Ads Are Still Far From Being A Cash Cow
Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app,… Read more »
Spotify Needs U.S. Success After Losses Deepened In 2010
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Accounts filed with Companies House show the likely reason Spotify wanted to break America so badly. Read more »
Steve Jobs: A Tribute In Links And Quotes
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We’ve gathered together a selection of some of the stories and tributes been written for Steve Jobs in the last several weeks — with a part… Read more »
Yet More Reports Of DST, Alibaba And Silver Lake Swarming Over Yahoo
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Not a new development, but further confirmation that there may be one on the horizon. China’s Alibaba, Russian investor Digital Sky Technolo… Read more »
Why Rhapsody Needs More Than Just Napster To Thrive
Rhapsody yesterday announced the acquisition of long-term rival Napster from U.S. retailer Best Buy. Rhapsody will retire the Napster brand… Read more »
Facebook-Spotify Love-In Over-Estimated Users’ Social Lives
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Inside Spotify, staff say their big U.S. delay left them “constipated”. Now that its American passage has been unblocked, Spotify is free to… Read more »
Pandora Smacked With Class Action For Revealing User Profiles
Pandora (NYSE: P) is the latest company to stumble into the minefield of privacy lawsuits that are blowing up all over the tech industry. A… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09-28-11
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» James Rubin Abruptly Departs Bloomberg (NYT/Media Decoder)
» Publishers’ Digital Download Hopes Rise Ahead Of Kindl… Read more »
We7 Cedes On-Demand Music Ground, Tries Pandora Model Instead
European music service We7 has finally completed the pivot with which it hopes to step out of the on-demand music shadow cast by Spotify and… Read more »
Is Facebook A Guardian Or Gatekeeper?
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As if to prove that Facebook’s F8 announcements were truly seismic we are still feeling the aftershocks now. Interestingly, though, it is Sp… Read more »
Spotify’s Levick: Facebook Integration Will Help Drive Ad Strategy
Just a few weeks after landing in the U.S., European-based streaming music service Spotify has gotten an immediate shot in the arm by being… Read more »
Pandora Website Revamp Bets On Turning ‘Listeners’ Into ‘Viewers’
Internet radio provider Pandora is primarily known for its mobile apps, but as it looks to build up its ad offerings, it’s overhauled its we… Read more »
AOL’s Levick Is Spotify’s New Chief Advertising Officer
A couple of months after being jettisoned in an executive restructure, former AOL (NYSE: AOL) global advertising president Jeff Levick has s… Read more »
Frank Meehan Steps Down As INQ CEO; Co-Founder Ken Johnstone Takes Over
Frank Meehan is stepping down as the CEO of INQ, the Hutchison-owned mobile phone maker that has been a trailblazer — if a very small one -… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-12-11: Google/Oracle, Apple/HTC Patents; Amazon; Adobe
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A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Amazon is taking one more step to enrich its content offerings; it’s reporte… Read more »
T-Mobile, Orange Reboot Their Mobile TV Services In UK
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks –… Read more »
Orange Duets With Spotify Competitor Deezer On New UK Mobile Music Service
Another mobile operator is taking a crack at the streaming music market: France Telecom’s Orange is partnering with Deezer — France’s answe… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 9-6-11: Apple vs. Nokia; 4G Spectrum; Telefonica; Intel
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) could overtake Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in smartphone shipments by the end… Read more »
Confirmed: Spotify Valued At $1.1 Billion For Global Push
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Spotify raised about €69 ($98.15/£59.97) million at a valuation of €774 ($1101.02/£672.68) million this summer for its roll-out in to… Read more »
Welcome To America, Spotify. Here’s Your Patent Lawsuit.
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Every company doing anything interesting in the tech sector these days gets sued for patent infringement-it’s practically a rite of passage.… Read more »
Virgin Will Price Spotify ‘Significantly Less’ Than Spotify Does
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) CEO Neil Berkett says he will bundle Spotify with his broadband service for a “very, very low monthly subscription… Read more »
