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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 [...]
TMV Exclusive: MusicMetric Enterprise Service Review
MusicMetric has added a new programme to its roster, the Enterprise service, which is an expanded version of the Essentials and Professional services. MusicMetric is a new entrant into music metrics and offers a real-time trend-tracking package that organizes and analyses artists’ online presence and breaks down the online fanbase. Its unique point is it [...]
Lala Land: How Apple’s Deal Gives It A Leg-Up To The Cloud
Robert Andrews editor at our content partner, paidContentUK examines the recent acquisition of Lala by Apple. iTunes Store remains the market-leading music retailer, and iTunes the popular app, but competitors are gathering. As more of our lives are stored online, so more music is streaming from the cloud. In on-demand, Spotify is hoping to launch [...]
MySpace Music Is No Spotify Challenger
Mark Mulligan courtesy of paidContentUK examines the difference between the two propositions and there limits… MySpace today launched its UK music offering, over a year after its US launch. However tempting it is to position this as a Spotify challenger (and the BBC and many others do) it simply isn’t. It isn’t – both out [...]
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 [...]
Twones: The Music Start Up Made For Social Networking
Tim Heineke, co-founder of Dutch start-up Twones, said to Mashable, “music is moving away from the file and onto the browser.” The popularity of Last.fm, the iLike Facebook application and the #musicmonday hashtag topping Twitter’s trending topics every week are great indicators of this…but how can we fully integrate the personal playlist with social networking? [...]
The Funding Gap
MOG the music blog network, announced this past Thursday that they had secured $5 million dollars (U.S.) in new financing from Menlo Ventures and others, giving them a total raise of $12 million dollars. This is great news for MOG’s founder, David Hyman, and even better news for digital music start-ups around the world. In [...]
I Can’t Get No Satisfaction – with Myspace Music
With the launch of Myspace Music only six or so months ago in the US, cracks are appearing in the joint venture between FOX Interactive (owner of MySpace) and the four major label partners. According to recent reports from CNET, MySpace has experienced trouble in converting the decent traffic levels to the service into actual [...]
Why Social Music Is The Future
Forget about Celebrity DJs. Keep your Princeton, Oxford and Harvard educated broadsheet critics. Ignore the hacks at NME and Rolling Stone. The people who actually shape our musical tastes live and work among us each and every day. Maybe it was your sister and her friends who played Candy-O by The Cars after school one [...]
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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...
