@ CTIA: Billboard: Instant Gratification Of Mobile Music Deserves Premium Price, Universal Says
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Updated: Verizon Drops Marley Ringtones, Then Reinstates Again
By James Quintana Pearce
Updated: Seems like the decision has been reversed: Reuters reports again that a Verizon Wireless spokeswoman said it will now be putting al… Read more »
UMG And Ringboxx Offer Home Ringtones
By James Quintana Pearce
Home Phone Tunes has launched Ringboxx, a $60 device that lets you assign music and audio content to calls coming in on your landline. Unive… Read more »
Music In Asia: The Double-Edged Sword
By Ingrid Lunden
Music in Asia is a blessing and a bane to the beleaguered music industry: Asian markets have been some of the most lucrative for the digital… Read more »
3UK Expands Music Video Service, With Dual Download
By James Quintana Pearce
Something I missed while I was at the conference last week: 3UK has signed a deal with Groove Mobile to sell music videos via a dual-downloa… Read more »
Omniphone Launches All-You-Can-Eat Subscription Service
By James Quintana Pearce
We covered this a few days ago, but it has now happened…British company Omniphone has launched a mobile music service dubbed MusicStation… Read more »
Universal Music Group Extends International D2C Push
By Peggy Anne Salz
Universal Music Group (UMG) and Germany’s net mobile AG (net-m) have expanded their existing partnership in Germany to cover the rest of Eur… Read more »
UMG Promotes Caraeff To EVP of eLabs
By James Quintana Pearce
Universal Music Group has promoted Rio Caraeff — formerly Vice President & General Manager of Universal Music Mobile — to Executive Vice… Read more »
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Telenor & Vodacom To Launch All-You-Can-Eat Mobile Music Service; Omnifone Signs UMG
By Rafat Ali
Norway’s Telenor ASA and South Africa’s Vodacom will launch among the first fat-rate mobile music all-you-can-eat download services….the t… Read more »
Universal Music U.K. Moves Music Catalog Off-Portal
By Peggy Anne Salz
Universal Music U.K. has sealed a deal with mobile music technology provider Groove Mobile to build and operate an off-portal mobile music s… Read more »
Universal Music Makes Catalog Available For Place-Based Entertainment Service
By Peggy Anne Salz
Universal Music Enterprises, a division of the Universal Music Group, has signed a multi-year, non-exclusive licensing agreement with Akoo ,… Read more »
Universal Music Signs On For Mobile Jukebox
By James Quintana Pearce
Universal Music Enterprises has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Akoo for its m-Venue music service…this is for the entire UMG… Read more »
UMG On Aussie Prepaid Cards
By James Quintana Pearce
UMG has signed a deal with Australian telco Gotalk to offer mobile music on prepaid cards. “The Universal Music Content Card is a prepaid ca… Read more »
Mobile Song Fees Should Drop — Universal Music CEO
By James Quintana Pearce
Reuters is reporting that Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris has said that “cellphone providers need to cut the price of wireless song do… Read more »
McDonald’s Offers Mobile Content
By James Quintana Pearce
McDonalds and Akoo have announced the launch of m-Venue, which “allows patrons to choose a wide variety of audio and video content from Sony… Read more »
CTIA: MTV, UMG Strike U.S. Mobile Video Deal
Don’t have all the details but as early as today, MTV Networks and Universal Music Group will announce a deal giving the programmer rights t… Read more »
Universal Music Tying Up with MTV For A Broad Mobile Partnership
By Rafat Ali
So the sources from CTIA tell MocoNews…the official announcement is tomorrow. This will be broad mobile partnership with Universal Music,… Read more »
Jamba’s German Music Service
By James Quintana Pearce
Jamba is promoting its music service at the radio show Internationalen Funkausstellung in Berlin (IFA), where it will have a “bluetooth colu… Read more »
UMG Launches US D2C Initiative
By James Quintana Pearce
Universal Music Group has launched a D2C effort in the US based on premium SMS shortcodes. The service will offer direct access to music, ma… Read more »
Rapper Chamillionaire Is Just That, Through Mastertones
By James Quintana Pearce
A nice tidbit from Universal Music Group… the song Ridin’ by the rapper Chamillionaire has sold a record 3 million ringtones (these are ma… Read more »
UMG Launches Mobile Music Store In Holland
By James Quintana Pearce
Universal Music Group has launched a mobile music service in Holland called AnySong which “gives Dutch mobile subscribers access to over 250… Read more »
Jamba Music Goes Beta (German)
By James Quintana Pearce
I’ve poorly translated the following from German, so if any German speakers notice any mistakes please let me know…
The Jamba (German arm… Read more »
Industry Moves: Universal Music Mobile Names New VP of Marketing
By Rafat Ali
This happened some time ago, so most of you dealing with Universal Music might know about this, but was announced officially today: Universa… Read more »
Live Country Concert On Sprint Mobile Phones
By Rafat Ali
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Thumbplay In Pact With UMG To Distribute Mobile Music
By Sahad PV
Thumbplay, a direct-to-consumer mobile entertainment company, has signed up with music label Universal Music Group (UMG) to distribute the l… Read more »
Universal To Test Short Codes For Music
By Rafat Ali
Updated: Our alert users remind us: Warner Music has been doing this for more than a year…
Original post: If I am not mistaken, this is th… Read more »
Universal Music’s Stake in Amp’d: 19.9 Percent for $56 Million
By Rafat Ali
That’s from Vivendi Universal’s latest annual report 10-K, filed last week with SEC…some more details: it has invested close to $56 millio… Read more »
Telus Launches Mobile Music
By James Quintana Pearce
Canadian operator Telus has launched a mobile music service with tracks from EMI Music, SonyBMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Gro… Read more »
Universal Gives Mobile Content Rights To Buongiorno
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Universal Studios has signed a deal with Buongiorno to put scenes from up to 75 “unforgettable blockbusters” on mobile phones. The rights wi… Read more »
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