Author Archive for Sam McGregor
TMV Video Interview: Martin Talbot, Managing Director – The Official Charts Company
TMV’s Jakomi Mathews interviews Martin Talbot, MD of The Official Charts Company this year at MuseExpo.
Chinwag Event: Who Pays The Piper?
This informal event was broadly targetted at who provides the income in the current changing music industry. On hand to give various perspectives was, Dave Haynes (Soundcloud), Dom Hodge (Fruct Music), Hellienne Lindvall (The Guardian), Richard Jacobs (Spotify) and Richard Jacobs (MediaCom). Moderating the event was the ever entertaining Steve Bowbrick,
Event Report: Millennials & The Social Media Explosion
The concept behind this event was two fold; looking at how the social media phenomenon has impacted rights holders and also examining the various paths it could take in the future. The whole evening was recorded and broadcast later as a podcast, which naturally you can share along side your other social media…
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Event Report: Musexpo Europe 2009
Whilst TMV Editor Jakomi was bunkered down undertaking numerous video interviews (which you will get to view over the coming weeks), I was getting the lowdown on the panels that mattered.
Day 1 Tuesday 30th June
The New Power Players
Ted Cohen from TAG strategic moderated this panel focusing on the rise of the new digital stakeholders, where [...]
The Trial: – “Can We Trust The Music Industry?”
TMV staffer Sam McGregor reports on his experience as the head of the jury for “The Trial” held during the Liverpool Sound City conference on May 23rd 2009.
The main event for the Saturday of this year’s Liverpool Sound City was the ominously named “The Trial” in which the music business was placed in the dock. [...]
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Billboard.biz- Business Matters: BPI Advice To ISPs, House of Blues March 9, 2010
- Aventura 'Open Mic' Karaoke Game Hits iTunes App Store March 9, 2010
- MTV International Names Digital Media Senior VP March 8, 2010
- Business Matters: EMI Music Pub, StubHub, Pandora, Camper Van Beethoven and More March 8, 2010
- Spotify Debuts Live Set From Amy Macdonald March 8, 2010
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- 'Online Payforit' Provides Payment Solution for Multiple Services March 9, 2010
- Netgem outlines its vision of the future of TV At IPTV World Forum 2010 March 9, 2010
- British Museum to Present at MarketingSherpa's 2nd Annual Germany Email Marketing Summit 2010 March 8, 2010
- GALA 2010 Focuses on the Future of Global Content Delivery March 5, 2010
- It's a Wrap! Playfish Announce Winners of Pet Society Movie Awards March 5, 2010
Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...
Everyone is now well familiar with the story of Spiral Frog and how it buried the ad-supported download model. Reasons given for this are numerous, ranging from reports of blatant mismanagement to non-compatibility with iPods to consumer resistance to being force fed a 60 or 90 second commercial before the...