Industry Moves: Vivendi CEO Lévy To Chair Game Maker Activision Blizzard
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) CEO Jean-Bernard Lévy is to chair Call Of Duty and Guitar Hero game publisher Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard’s board,… Read more »
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UMG’s Grainge: Media Entering Global Warming, Music Needs Graduated Response
Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge has backed the UK’s government plan to warn unauthorised downloaders. Appearing on a panel at Frida… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Orange iPhone TV; MusicStation On PC; Zed-Universal
By Dianne See Morrison
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– Orange iPhone TV: In France, the telco is rolling out an iPhone app tha… Read more »
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Film Biz’s Friendly, Weird New Anti-Piracy Ad: Doesn’t Mention Piracy
By Patrick Smith
For years UK cinema-goers have been warned that copying, downloading or buying copied DVDs and CDs is a crime, in short adverts using the… Read more »
Music Roundup: Muzu; Universal-RTL
By Patrick Smith
– Muzu: Irish video-sharing site Muzu has partnered with online ad sales house eType to step up its display and video-ad revenues. The deal… Read more »
Reports: YouTube, Universal Teaming Up On New Music-Video Site
By Tameka Kee
Sources are telling the WSJ and CNET that YouTube and Universal Music Group (UMG) are in late stage talks to launch a music video site tenta… Read more »
Imeem's New Challenge
By Dianne See Morrison
Can music-oriented social-networking site Imeem get consumers to pay to get music on their cell phones that they could otherwise listen to f… Read more »
Vivendi And Iliad File EC Complaint Against France Telecom
By Dianne See Morrison
French media giant Vivendi (EPA: VIV) and broadband provider Iliad have joined together and filed a complaint with the European competition… Read more »
Earnings: Vivendi Finds Money In Music, NBCU Drags, 'Record' Games Profit
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Universal Music Uses Kyte To Kick-Off iPhone Blitz; Five Artists Launch Apps
By Tricia Duryee
Kyte, the San Francisco-based company that enables people to stream video directly from their phones to the web, has identified a new revenu… Read more »
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UMG-Sony Music JV Total Music Shuts Down
Two-year old Total Music has closed up shop, Billboard.biz reports TechCrunch confirmed. The causes? Billboard.biz, citing multiple “directl… Read more »
UMG-Sony Music JV Total Music Shuts Down
Two-year old Total Music has closed up shop, Billboard.biz reports TechCrunch confirmed. The causes? Billboard.biz, citing multiple “directl… Read more »
Sony Ericsson And Universal Music Publishing In Deal To Promote Emerging Acts
By Dianne See Morrison
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has struck a deal with Universal Music Publishing to allow the publisher Read more »
Universal Music Artists To Stream Video To Fans Using Kyte
By Tricia Duryee
After seeing success with artists, such as Pussycat Dolls, Soulja Boy Tell Em and All American Rejects, Universal Music Group said it is des… Read more »
Industry Moves: Universal Music’s Adam Flick Out, Thumbplay’s Mitch Rotter In As Marketing Head
By Tricia Duryee
Adam Flick, VP of marketing at Universal Music Group Distribution, has left the company to pursue other opportunities, a spokesman confirmed… Read more »
Carriers Find New Ways To Wall Off Content, This Time Using The Memory Card
By Tricia Duryee
Carriers have found a new way of dangling content in front of consumers, but with all the same strings attached as the original “walled gard… Read more »
Vivendi Writing Down NBCU Value; Sell-Off Option Still Unclear
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) is reducing the book value of its 20 percent stake in the NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) joint venture. The French conglomerate… Read more »
Universal Says Mobile Is Nearly Half Of Its Digital Business; Amazon’s Biggest 3rd Party Is Android
By Tricia Duryee
A few interesting tidbits surfaced during an interview between Rio Caraeff, EVP of Universal Music Group’s eLabs, and CNet, that implies tha… Read more »
@ CES: Moms Part Of Early Adopters For Nokia’s Comes With Music Service
By Tricia Duryee
Early results from Nokia’s Comes With Music service are showing that one of the more surprising demographics that are adopting the service a… Read more »
How The Big Mobile Stories Of 2008 Will Play Out In The New Year
By Tricia Duryee
This year was somewhat an anomaly for the wireless industry. A lot of things got done: the impossible of mergers closed; new phones launched… Read more »
Vivendi Games Mobile Europe Shut Down
By Dianne See Morrison
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) Games Mobile Europe is no more. Mobile Entertainment reports that European partners have received Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: MTV Games, Mumspower, PlusTV
– MTV games: The TV network is extending its relationship with its German web games vendor to 10 more of its European websites. Hamburg-bas… Read more »
Telefonica, Vivendi Mull Bid For Spain’s Digital Plus TV Outfit
After BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) took an interest but later pulled out, Spain’s Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) telco and France’s Vivendi (EPA: VIV) media co… Read more »
Vivendi CEO: No Decision Yet On Whether To Sell Stake In NBCU; GE’s Immelt: ‘Would Buy In Heartbeat’
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) SA has yet to decide whether it will keep its 20 percent stake in NBC Universal or exercise its annual option to sell, CE… Read more »
Codemasters, Monumental Buying Swordfish Games Maker From Activision
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Codemasters and Nottingham-based online multiplayer specialist Monumental Games have between them bought UK games developer Swordfish Studio… Read more »
Casual Collective Grabs $1 Million For Casual Games Development
By Patrick Smith
Newly-formed ad-funded online games developer Casual Collective has raised $1 million (£613,000) of seed funding from Lightspeed Venture Pa… Read more »
GE’s Immelt: ‘Some Opportunities In Media Consolidation’
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Earnings: UMG Digital Sales Up 33 Percent, New Streams Offset Dropoff In CD Sales
Universal Music Group predicted a turnaround, and maybe it’s coming to pass… UMG posted Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Nokia’s Big Traffic Plans; Zed Ringtones On Alltel; Sega Mobile; Mobile Billing
By Matt Kapko
– Nokia (NYSE: NOK) launches traffic program: Nokia has launched a public pilot program out of its Silicon Valley-based research center to… Read more »
Thumbplay Launches Full-Track Music Store
By Matt Kapko
Thumbplay has launched a full-track music store for mobile phones with a catalog of 1.5 million songs. With DRM-free tracks from Universal,… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Perez Hilton; School Of Rock; Playphone-UMG; Tribune; LimeLife; RIM Joystick
By Matt Kapko
– Perez Hilton launches mobile site: The celebrity gossip site that made the Paint application cool again with rudimentary white dots and l… Read more »
UMG CEO: Piracy Will Be Solved By Technology, Not People; Timing on Hulu-Like Music Video Site
By Rafat Ali
Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris can never be accused of being shy, or, putting his foot in, oh well…in an extensive interview with B… Read more »
UMG CEO: Piracy Will Be Solved By Technology, Not People; Timing on Hulu-Like Music Video Site
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Universal Music Group Joins Dada; Promoting Latin Artists On Spanish-Language Flycell
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YouTube Popularity Spurs UMG To Consider ‘Hulu For Music’ Site: Report
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YouTube has proven to be a powerful promotional vehicle and revenue generator for Universal Music Group, as it serves to connect the music l… Read more »
Unlimited Music Service Battle Heats Up; Vodafone Launches In Australia
By Matt Kapko
The battle and gamble over unlimited music services has arrived. Once Nokia (NYSE: NOK) came out of the gate last December with its Comes Wi… Read more »
Sony Ericsson’s Unlimited Music Service May Come Next Week
By Tricia Duryee
More details are emerging about Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson’s (NSDQ: ERIC) unlimited music service, which sounds a lot like Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK… Read more »
Spain’s Prisa Receives Offers For Satellite TV Unit Digital Plus
By Dianne See Morrison
Spainish media conglomerate Prisa has received a number of preliminary offers for its satellite TV business Digital Plus. According to the F… Read more »
Vivendi CEO Sees Resurgence of Music Industry; UMG “Next Surprise for Our Investors”
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Hope springs eternal in music, and it seems, in the music industry as well. Jean Bernard Levy, the CEO of Vivendi (EPA: VIV) (which owns the… Read more »
Interview: MocoSpace CEO Justin Siegel: “We’ll Generate Millions Of Dollars In Ad Revenue This Year”
By Tricia Duryee
In 2013, more than 140 million subscribers will be part of a mobile social network, and that they will generate $410 million from subscripti… Read more »
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