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 »
Warner Bros. Throws DVD Rental Gauntlet Down At Redbox — And Netflix
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The battle between the movie studios and new movie rental services (like Redbox and *Netflix* — but not Blockbuster) is quickly evolving in… Read more »
Spotify Close To Getting Between $33 Million And $50 Million In Funding
Spotify’s recent PR tightrope walk has paid off. We understand the streaming-music app has now closed the funding round it was looking for,… Read more »
Spotify Close To Getting Its Funding, Between £20 Million And £30 Million
Spotify’s recent PR tightrope walk has paid off. We understand the streaming music app has now closed the funding round it was looking for.… Read more »
Earnings Call: Time Warner’s Bewkes Brings Up The ‘A’ Word — Acquisition
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Updated: With the *Time Warner*Cable separation in the past and the AOL spin on the way, *Time Warner* Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes very, ve… Read more »
Spotify Is Already Out For iPhone (Unofficially)
While Spotify crosses its fingers Apple will approve its client for iPhone’s App Store, some folk are already using Spotify on the handset.… Read more »
Google Flames Tory MP Davis On Privacy Claims
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) had better hope former Tory shadow minister David Davis doesn’t return to a senior role in a future Conservative governm… Read more »
Interview: Blyk, Orange Chiefs Plan To Sell Ads Together
Orange UK says it will form a single mobile ad sales team with Blyk, which has now abandoned its ad-funded virtual mobile network (MVNO) mod… Read more »
Interview: Blyk Targeting US Operators After Shifting Direction
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Europe’s Blyk is rebooting its American ambitions after ditching its original MVNO model in favour of carrier partnerships. The startup had… Read more »
Spotify Waves iPhone Buzz Under Apple’s Nose
Streamed music service Spotify is trying to gain Apple’s acceptance for its iPhone app by simultaneously whetting users’ appetites and fla… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: We7 Stats, Music Royalties; ITV Friends Reunited Sale Reports; BT Vision
– We7: Is We7 finally hitting the right note? Two weeks after saying it’s getting two million monthly uniques, the site has leapfrogged Las… Read more »
Earnings: FT Profits Hit By Ad Downturn, Online Subs Up
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Free and paid subscriptions are still growing, but not by enough to keep Financial Times profits in the same direction. FT Publishing’s Janu… Read more »
Apple, Labels Jamming On Ways To Boost Music Sales
“Don’t it always seem to go you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” … Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) didn’t pave paradise but it helped kill o… Read more »
Warner Bros. Busts Digital, Traditional Silos With ‘One Eskimo’ Project
Big media companies talk about “breaking the silos” all the time, but often, it remains just that — talk — while content gets incubated an… Read more »
Midway Sold To Warner Bros. For $33 Million — But Two Studios Left Out
And now it’s done. Midway Games has been sold to Warner Bros. for $33 million — ending about six months worth of financial turmoil and head… Read more »
PRS Endorses Spotify, Rickrolling Earned Pete Waterman Just £11
PRS For Music is stepping up its negotiating campaign against YouTube by wheeling out another host of artists and waving around a new licens… Read more »
Industry Moves: Spotify Picks Slicethepie’s Brown As UK MD
Slicethepie commercial director and Pandora international MD Paul Brown is joining music streaming service Spotify as its first dedicated UK… Read more »
Spotify Tries Sponsored Playlists To Make A Buck, Grow Audience
Spotify is adding another commercial model to its ad-supported, £0.99-a-day, £9.99-a-month and download-to-buy options – brand partnership… Read more »
Spotify Adds Download-To-Buy Through 7Digital
On-demand music streaming app Spotify has now formally added one of the three music retail affiliates it told us about earlier this month. L… Read more »
