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Spotify-Google Links Just ‘Speculation’
It’s extraordinary how quickly rumour can appear to become fact these days. Case in point: TechCrunch mashing up the two hot trends of Spotify and Nexus One in to a story that Google’s new Android phone will include the music app pre-bundled. The launch came and went with no Spotify announcement, though CNET already rated [...]
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 [...]
Vevo – Another Failed Venture or A Virtual Video Goldmine?
There has been a lot of press lately surrounding the new Vevo site, due to launch today, but what is it all about exactly? Here we will give you everything you need to know about this new service. Vevo is a project between Google, Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Abu Dhabi Media Company for [...]
Can You Harness The Power Of Free In Your Business
Fraser Neilson examines the power of Free and how it can be harnessed to work for the music business.
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 [...]
Labels Taking Charge: Monitisation on Video Channels
Now that WMG music video content is back up on YouTube and with a whole new business proposition to boot, TMV thought it important to examine the new deal, the technology behind it and its implications for labels and advertising funded services. As most regular TMV readers are aware my personal view is that most [...]
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 [...]
Google Gets Closer To Music
Speculation was rife last week about a soon to be announced (Wednesday this week 28th October 2010) service involving Google’s search technology and a number of different music streaming and a-la-carte retailers. According to insiders speaking to the Wall Street Journal , the music will be provided in the form of free, embedded streams from [...]
The Continued Devaluation of Music
With numerous new start-ups entering the digital music space, many of them ad-funded based, what is the effect on à-la-carte sales? Going further why do labels constantly state game developers/publishers and new business models undervalue their recorded music content? Over the last decade we have witnessed an obvious sea change in the manner in which [...]
Climbing Higher Into the Clouds
Is cloud computing the technology of the future or just another buzz word that will soon vanish from the trendy industry topics landscape? TMV recently attended a conference event organised by ‘First Tuesday’ at the Soho Hotel London in search of an answer to this question. We wanted to get our heads around the issues [...]
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Billboard.biz- Google Rolls Location-Based Mobile Display Ads July 29, 2010
- Business Matters: Rolling Stones, Ustream, DMX and more July 29, 2010
- Dimensional Completes Acquisition of The Orchard July 29, 2010
- Sources: Spotify Reboots U.S. Label Negotiations July 29, 2010
- Business Matters: Lucian Grainge, Live Nation, Les Savy Fav and more July 28, 2010
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- Nuance Unveils Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 11, Simply Smarter Speech Recognition July 29, 2010
- Business Owners Need Understanding of Internet Marketing to Engage With Customers July 29, 2010
- Brits trust the web more than their friends July 29, 2010
- Google Crowned "King of Malware" – Has Two Times More Malware than Bing, Yahoo! and Twitter Combined July 28, 2010
- StrongMail Acquires Marketing Services Firms and Creates Email and Social CRM Agency Powerhouse "ThreadMarketing" July 28, 2010
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...
