The Morning Lowdown 07-27-11
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» Aegis Group is selling its market-research unit Synovate to France’s Ipsos for £525 million ($861.2 million) in a move that wi… Read more »
Wall Street Analysts Like Pandora, Investors Not So Sure
Pandora (NYSE: P) shares popped nearly four percent in pre-market trading Monday after several analysts issued bullish research reports on t… Read more »
Video: Spotify’s Daniel Ek: ‘Ownership Is Great But Access Is The Future’
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) wants to organize the world’s information. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says his company’s goal is “to have all the world’s mus… Read more »
‘The Daily’ Launches A New Version; Hopes For Assist From Spotify
Another News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). tabloid is making news today and this time it has nothing to do with Parliament or police. The Daily is out w… Read more »
Spotify Launch Sponsors Pay $1 Million Each
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We spoke with an executive very close to Spotify and several advertising executives to understand the company’s strategy behind its hybrid a… Read more »
Netlog Pulls A Facebook, Signs Music Partnership With We7
The idea of social networks as a place to listen to and share music is one that MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) should have owned. But its gradual decli… Read more »
Want A Spotify Invite From Klout? The Magic Number Is…20
Can you get an early Spotify invitation? It all depends on how cool you are, or at least that’s what Klout wants you to think. The site, whi… Read more »
Pandora Shares Fall Sharply, Then Recover, As Spotify Hits the U.S.
Pandora (NYSE: P) may have gone public just in the nick of time. With rival Spotify’s long-awaited U.S. arrival finally at hand, Pandora sha… Read more »
Let’s Get Ready To Rumble: Spotify USA Is Finally Open For Business
After more literally years of build up, Swedish freemium music service Spotify finally opened its virtual doors in the U.S. today with three… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-14-11
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» Swedish freemium music service Spotify is finally live in the U.S. Invite-only access and subscriptions started this morning. (… Read more »
Not So Fast: Can Spotify Replicate Speedy Success Across The Pond?
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Last week when Spotify launched its U.S. site, we laid out some of the challenges the music streaming service would have in the competitive… Read more »
Spotify Launching In U.S. Thursday; Invite-Only Free, Instant Premium
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U.S. music enthusiasts who have claimed all along that they would be willing to pay for Spotify will get their chance to prove it Thursday.… Read more »
Pandora Touts 100 Million Users As Spotify, Clear Channel Loom
Fresh off its IPO, internet radio company Pandora (NYSE: P) touted its growing user-base and expanding partnerships during a meeting with an… Read more »
Sound The Trumpets! Spotify Has A U.S. Signup Page (But No Dates Or Prices)
It’s been a day of progress for music streaming service Spotify. In the morning: a deal with Virgin Media in the UK for a TV/online/mobile s… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 7-6-11: EU Roaming Rates; Spotify; HTC; Nokia; Microsoft
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Mobile roaming: A big set of proposals were put forward today recommending huge cost red… Read more »
Spotify Ad Campaign For Kronenbourg Gets Censored Over Binge Drinking Fears
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Heineken has been forced to drop a cover of the US punk band Dead Kennedys’ song Too Drunk to Fuck that featured in a Kronenbourg 1664 onlin… Read more »
Pandora For E-Books
24symbols, a site that harnesses a Pandora-like model for e-books, officially launched today. The site lets users read e-books by streaming… Read more »
Update: Facebook Shuts Down Apps In Abrupt Policy Switch. Spartan Prelude?
Facebook may be gearing up for a big, new attack on the mobile market with the so-called Project Spartan, but first, a little housekeeping.… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-20-11
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» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Buying DVR Software Maker SageTV (paidContent)
» Display’s New Kingpin: Facebook’s No. 1 (AdAge… Read more »
Spotify Secures Its Funding For International Expansion
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Stop me if this post sounds familiar…
Remember that $100 million which TechCrunch back in February said Spotify was supposedly raising, v… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-17-11: RIM/O2; iTunes Match; The Problem With Tablets
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Read more »
A Digital Music Bubble In Swedish Water?
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What’s in the water in Scandinavia?
Just four months ago, Spotify was supposedly valued at $1 billion (€705 million), according to report… Read more »
Updated: iCloud: Just A Lot Of Hot Air When It Comes To Streaming?
In the stream of announcements made today at the WWDC, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may have dismantled more than one business model in its wake. “Sh*… Read more »
Clouds Gather Over iCloud In Germany: Apple Faces Antitrust Complaint
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Amid ever-growing speculation and buzz around the WWDC, and the details of what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will be announcing at its annual develope… Read more »
Changing Of The Guard At Three UK: CEO Russell Replaced By COO Dyson
Three, the Hutchison-owned mobile operator that splashed on to the UK mobile scene as a greenfield 3G entrant in 2003, has lost its CEO of t… Read more »
Spotify’s Business Head Has Left The Company
Spotify’s global head of business development, Faisal Galaria, has left the music startup, which is now creeping closer to breaking out of E… Read more »
Video: Zennström, Parker On Innovation And Pushing Legal Boundaries
KaZaA and Napster helped destroy entertainment industry value. Now their co-founders have invested in building legal subscription offerings.… Read more »
Report: Spotify To Gain Prominence In Facebook Media Platform
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Facebook will soon add Spotify as an on-site music service, Forbes magazine reports.
Alongside Facebook’s own-brand photos, events and othe… Read more »
Will Consumers Baulk At Digital-Rental Lock-In?
With growing adoption of new unlimited-access media rental services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Spotify, I anticipate a future crunch poin… Read more »
Google To Bypass Record Companies, Launching Cloud Music Service
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is going ahead without approval of the major record labels and will unveil its cloud-based music program at the search g… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-06-11: Sony Ericsson/Facebook; T-Mobile; Visa; JiWire
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) updates its Xperia mini devices, and adds a “Fac… Read more »
7digital On Spotify: ‘Minimal Impact’ From Loss, Freemium Is Unsustainable
7digital, one of the leading digital music downloads retailers, will see “minimal impact” from losing the contract to sell tracks through Sp… Read more »
In The Mobile Music Landgrab, Rdio Signs On With Verizon
As big guns like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) reportedly gear up to launch their own music streaming services, the smaller sta… Read more »
Spotify Ends 7digital Relationship To Become Offline iTunes Rival
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Spotify is set to more closely compete with Apple’s iTunes and iTunes Store, by upgrading its pay-to-download music features and extending i… Read more »
Meet The Spotify Car, Six Months Free
It was only seven days ago Forrester research director Mark Mulligan postulated: “Imagine how tiny a fraction of a three-year Spotify premiu… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-19-11
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» The DVD and online video rental company LoveFilm has joined forces with Disney (NYSE: DIS) to stream films including Toy Story 3… Read more »
paidContent Week In Review: Tasini Vs. HuffPo; Google Earnings; Flipboard
In case you missed it, links to some of the top stories in digital media this past week:
» Tasini On HuffPo Lawsuit: We Have ‘Al… Read more »
Pay To Play: Can Spotify Still Turn Freeloaders In To Customers?
Asked why it’s downsizing its free service, Spotify tells paidContent:UK: “It’s not due to bandwidth issues and it’s not a premium conversio… Read more »
Spotify Halves Free Allowance Ahead Of U.S. Launch
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Spotify, which had previously slimmed the amount of music users could play for free, is now making a further curtailment that’s aimed at wri… Read more »
Confirmed: Spotify Hiring Domino’s Savoca In U.S. Push
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Spotify is due to name independent label Domino Records’ long-time head of digital Steve Savoca as its U.S. content operations head, paidCon… Read more »
