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Digital Music Trends Podcast
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 for music release a controversial [...]
Exile From Mainstreet – The Rough Trade Experience
The Music Void’s Chris McLellan reports from the semi-regular (and now international) digital music industry gathering known as OpenMusicMedia . The theme of this month’s meeting concerned the future of local, independent record shops. Have web-based music and the evil Box Stores sealed their fate, or do local shops like London’s Rough Trade indicate that [...]
HMV in live music takeover deal
Entertainment firm HMV is expanding its presence in the live music market by buying venue owner MAMA Group for £46m. HMV’s move comes nearly a year after it took a 9.9% stake in MAMA, which runs 11 concert venues including the Hammersmith Apollo. MAMA also owns other interests, including an artist management business which represents [...]
Event Report – Bounce (London, UK)
This last week saw TMV attend the latest ‘Bounce night’, a series of London-based music industry events that are seeking to strengthen the connections between music, brands and media. Bounce is the brain child of KLP Entertainment, the music communications agency. The hosts for this particular night were the Mama Group (UK venue owners, 50% [...]
Why doesn’t the music industry have answers to the big questions?
This week Keith Jopling has kindly let TMV re-publish the post from his blog Juggernaut Brew examining why the music sector rarely has decent answers to the big questions that continually plague the industry. As Keith was the key stats man at international recording industry body IFPI he certainly has some dynamic insight. So without [...]
TGE Video Interview with Gary Warren, Commercial Director – HMV UK & Ireland
This week TMV have posted another video interview we did at The Great Escape in Brighton. This time round we have Gary Warren from HMV in the hot TMV seat. On the change of the retail landscape Gary states that HMV have still witnessed growth within different segments of the physical market in terms of [...]
HMV UK Acquires Stake In Mama Group
His master’s voice has just got slightly louder in the UK. Music retailer HMV Group has entered the British live music game with its purchase of a 50% stake in the Mama Group. The joint venture includes 11 live music and entertainment venues in the UK, including the Hammersmith Apollo in London, which will be [...]
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Whilst Apple’s app store to date has so far been a resounding success, TMV asks what are the long-term prospects for app stores in general? As usual Apple was the first to innovate in this area. However, the fact it was the key innovator in this marketplace does not preclude...
