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Next Mobile Battleground Is Music Subscription Services
The mobile music scene is once again a hotbed of startup activity. In the first wave of innovation, the focus was on ringtones. Now the fashionable thing is music subscription services. The list of companies dabbling in the space are too many to count. Just this week, a Berkeley, Calif. startup called MOG, which has [...]
“Tell me what you want, what you really really want” – Music Platforms And Fan Engagement
Marie-Alicia Chang examines how recommendation and discovery tools are exposing music fans to new music
Going, gone & gone for good this time
Keith Joppling from the Juggernaught Brew blog delivers dynamic insights into recent industry activities
Rhapsody Mobile App Allows Users to Download and Play Playlists
Monday 26th April 2010, Rhapsody, the US based music subscription service, has launched an update to its iPhone app – the key piece of news being that this update allows users to enjoy using the service anywhere they choose. Apparently this is also the first time Apple has approved this feature in the US. Other [...]
TMV Looks back On Our Predictions to See Where We Were Right and Where We Got It Wrong
Last year saw The Music Void make its first foray into future gazing with our bold (and not so bold) predictions for the music industry in 2009. With no pedigree of clairvoyance to fall back upon, we probably erred on the side of caution at times, but all things considered we acquitted ourselves reasonably well [...]
MySpace Music: Going Freemium?
This past week has revealed MySpace to be in quite a slump. First, there has been speculation that MySpace is considering moving to a paid model. According to an interview by paidContent with News Corp. digital chief Jon Miller there is interest in the “freemium” music model. TechCrunch further investigated and is sure free streaming [...]
Lala: From the Bottom of the Barrel to the Crest of the Wave
The only news of Lala in the past year was WMG’s writing down half of its $20 million investment in the site, grimly citing “lower expectations of digital music sales”. But this week introduced three new prospective projects for the streaming site; an iPhone app and deals with Facebook and Google. Lala could soon be [...]
Mobile Medicine
Wayne Rosso drills down on mobile revenues and the potential for increasing sales volumes of digital music generally.
Mobile App Stores – The Wider Issue
With the recent rejection by Apple of the Google Voice application for the Apple app store and the FCC probe brought on by the scandal, TMV thought it apt (pun intended) to drill down on the issues at hand. Firstly AT&T, Apple’s iPhone partner in the US, has denied any involvement in the negative decision [...]
First Ever Mobile Internet Radio Website?
It was interesting to receive an email announcing the launch of a claimed first in terms of a mobile internet streaming radio station over the weekend. The announcement concerns When I’m Mobileteaming up with internet radio station Radio Paradise, albeit TMV do question the statement that it is a world first, what about the Pandora [...]
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Apple’s iTunes Store gave labels much-needed succour after its launch in 2003, slowing down big losses by replicating physical’s per-track purchase paradigm in digital. But now, even after many such services have abandoned copy locks, growth in downloads has largely flatlined, or even worse. The new promised land lays in...
In the second instalment of his series on piracy and anti-piracy, Andrea Leonelli interviews Alex Jacob, Communications Manager at the International Federation of the Phonographic industry – better known as the IFPI. Also, the debate organised by Music Ally on Cloud music services, which included some very interesting guests. PRS...