Spotify Could Go On Virgin Media; Virgin Wants Exclusive
Spotify and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) are in talks to carry the music service to the cable company’s customers, paidContent:UK understands. Read more »
Let’s Do The Time Warp: Spotify’s 2009 Accounts
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Spotify’s 2009 UK accounts appeared at Companies House on Friday. They’re largely irrelevant now – not just because they’re nearly 12 months… Read more »
eMusic Launches New Site With Tiered MP3 Pricing
eMusic launched its new website today, which includes 250,000 new songs from Universal, new hits from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Music and Warner Musi… Read more »
WMG Renews Spotify For Europe, Still Talking In U.S.
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If analysts on Warner Music Group’s Q4 earnings call were hoping for news of a Spotify deal, they got exactly what they wanted. Edgar Bronfm… Read more »
Spotify By The Numbers: High Royalty Outgoings, U.S. By Christmas?
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Yes, Spotify is sticking to a target of launching Stateside by Christmas. In the meantime, our original curiosity about the freemium music s… Read more »
Hey, Spotify Sceptics – International Is Hard To Do
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Naysayers continue expressing suspicion Spotify will launch in the U.S.. But Spotify’s not alone in discovering the challenge of an overseas… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.27.10
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» If you want a white iPhone, better be patient. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has experienced delays again and says the white version won’t… Read more »
Updated: Spotify Tries Live Concert Broadcasts; New U.S Murmurs
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Spotify aims to add live broadcasts of music concerts to its premium services as one more potential reason people might pay to subscribe, as… Read more »
Warner Bros. Hires Transpera’s Ballard To Lead Digital Games
Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has hired mobile gaming veteran Greg Ballard to lead its digital games business, as the company continues to double… Read more »
Spotify Gains Another Premium Option – Sonos Wireless Players
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Spotify has given itself one more, small reason why people might subscribe to Spotify Premium – a hook in to Sonos’ wireless music systems a… Read more »
Spotify’s Brown Is COO At Academic Network Mendeley
Paul Brown, who is leaving as partnerships SVP at Spotify, is becoming chief operating officer for Mendeley, a start-up often described as a… Read more »
Spotify SVP Brown Leaving For New Startup This Week
Spotify’s partnerships SVP Paul Brown is leaving after 18 months with the music startup, saying his exit’s on good terms. Read more »
In Unlimited-Music Race, Rdio Beats Spotify To U.S. Launch
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Despite trying for over a year, Spotify has been beaten to U.S. launch by Rdio, the comparable online music start-up backed by Atomico Ventu… Read more »
First Look: Spotify’s On TV, But It Still Needs Partner Deals
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Spotify has been offering pay-TV operators a set top box version of the music service for some time now. But so far it only has the deal ink… Read more »
Spotify Halves Subscription Cost As Competitors Gather
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Spotify is slashing the cost of its advert-free music streaming in Europe, in a bid to win more paying customers besides just mobile users.… Read more »
Spotify Targets iTunes, All-Comers With Social And MP3 Features
Spotify spent most of its first year saying it would refrain from adding “social” features and concentrate on just serving music. But the ic… Read more »
Blockbuster To Get New Warner Bros DVDs Four Weeks Before Netflix/Redbox
This surely isn’t the four weeks of Advent, but nevermind, at least Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) gets some breathing space it desperately needs.… Read more »
@ SxSWi: Spotify CEO Ek Says Spotify Passes 320,000 Paid Subs But Mum On U.S. Date
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If you were hoping that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek would use his South by Southwest Interactive keynote to announce a launch date for the U.S., n… Read more »
Sony’s Hesse More Positive on Spotify’s US Chances
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At the Digital Music Forum East in New York today, Thomas Hesse, President of Global Digital Bus., US Sales & Corp. Strategy at Sony (NYSE:… Read more »
Spotify Reportedly Raises New Funding From Founders Fund For U.S. Expansion
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Spotify has reportedly raised further venture funding from Facebook and Friendster backer Founders Fund, for U.S. expansion. The company won… Read more »
Warner Bros Takes Control Of Batman Game Maker Rocksteady
Already an investor in TT Games, Snowblind Studios and Midway Games assets, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) Home Entertainment is buying further in… Read more »
Redbox Drops Warner Bros. Lawsuit; Accepts Extended DVD Window
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Redbox has ended its lawsuit against Warner Brothers Home Entertainment and will give in to the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) unit’s demands for a… Read more »
The Key To Making Free Music Services Work
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In a previous post I explained how free music services such as Spotify were making premium rental services such as Rhapsody and Napster incr… Read more »
@ Midem: Spotify CEO: Everything Hangs On The Library
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Much-hyped music service Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek took to the stage at music-biz conference Midem and again tried to remind onlookers – it’s… Read more »
@ Midem: Labels Go Cold On Free Music Services; A Challenge To Spotify?
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Spotify has over 250,000 paying subscribers, SVP Paul Brown confirmed on stage at Midem, as streaming services fall over themselves to downp… Read more »
Spotify Says It Can Multiply U.S. Music Subscriptions Five-Fold
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Music streaming service Spotify is still yet to launch in the U.S., but it already has big ambitions for revolutionising the market there.… Read more »
Warner Music Got $9 Million in Lala.com’s Sale to Apple; Bronfman’s Salary
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) got at least $9 million back of the $20 million it invested in online music service Lala.com, after the latte… Read more »
Netflix Agrees To Warner’s New Release Delay In Exchange For More Streaming Rights
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) have reached new content distribution terms — with Netflix agreeing to a 28-day delay on… Read more »
Warner Music in Video Deal With Hulu; Second Label After EMI
Hulu is looking more and more like a mini-Vevo competitor: after a deal with EMI, done last month before Vevo’s launch, Warner Music (not pa… Read more »
Redbox Adds Retail Interference Claim To Warner, Fox Lawsuit
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Redbox’s latest claim in its lawsuit against Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Home Video is that the two studios are encouraging retailers l… Read more »
Warner Music Hands Over Video Ad Sales To Outrigger
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has a vision for how it’s going to make money with digital content this time around — and it includes a few… Read more »
Warner Bros. Emphasizes Mobile, Hires Farsi To Head Efforts
Warner Bros. Entertainment is putting mobile higher on the agenda by hiring Natalie Farsi to head mobile business efforts. Farsi will report… Read more »
Perlman’s OnLive Raises Double-Digit Funding From AT&T, Warner Bros., Others
OnLive, the connected gaming technology company founded by *Apple* alum Steve Perlman, just received a major dose of credibility in the form… Read more »
Warner Bros. Tests VOD Release Of Some New Movies Before DVD
Warner Bros. may be trying to keep its new DVD releases away from Redbox and *Netflix* until it’s had about a month to sell them in stores,… Read more »
Updated: Warner Close To Deal With YouTube, In Early Talks With Vevo
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Updated: Have Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) and YouTube finally negotiated a deal that will bring music videos from artists like Madonna an… Read more »
Report: Pirate Bay Appeal Hampered By Spotify Connection
You couldn’t make it up. After trying for a re-trial based on claims the judge in its case was a member of pro-copyright groups, The Pirate… Read more »
Warner Bros. Launches DC Entertainment — Brings DC-Branded Comics, Movies, Games Under One Roof
Let Disney (NYSE: DIS) have Spider-Man … Warner Bros. wants to make sure that it’s generating the most revenue possible from icons like Ba… Read more »
The WMG Reinvention Continues…But Is Time Running Out?
Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is continuing to dial back towards its content and marketing roots, a shift reiterated Friday by Atlantic Rec… Read more »
DivX, Film Fresh Get Studios' Blessings For Download-to-Own Movie Service
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Funny how certain Hollywood studios have chosen to embrace certain new movie distribution strategies, and yet fight hard against the evoluti… Read more »
Redbox Tries For Trifecta, Sues Warner Bros. Too
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Maybe Redbox’s lawyers get a bonus when they hit a certain number of lawsuits but this is getting to be a bit much. Yes, like Chris Albrecht… Read more »
