All Entries Tagged With: "Imeem"
WALL STREET SLAPS DOWN JUNIOR
Wayne Rosso takes a look at Standard and Poor’s recent downgrading of WMG stock, at the same time as pondering music labels’ rather checkered record in supporting new innovative business models such as Spotify
Winning the Gene Pool Lottery
Last weekend, the Sunday Times of London published the 2010 British Music Millionaires chart. Topping the list is our favorite fortunate son, Edgar Bronfman, Jr. ‘Junior’ qualifies for the list after moving from New York to London last year. The Times’ calculation of his fortune is partly based on his family’s past ownership of the [...]
imeem executives walk away with golden handshakes whilst leaving artists high and dry
Jakomi Mathews does some digging and finds out that seinor Imeem executives walked away with between $7 – $9 million in earnouts, despite leaving artists high and dry…
Through The Storm of Streaming Services, Spotify Remains Buoyant
This has been quite a week for music streaming sites and services. Amidst all of the shrewd verdicts of the Lala and imeem deals there is a silver lining from Rajar’s Midas report released on Thursday. The report revealed that this year music streaming services like Spotify and Last.fm were “the fastest-growing internet-delivered audio services” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SPOTIFY AND THE USA. WHY NOT?
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Spotify and the resistance that they’re reportedly getting from major labels about launching in the US. From what I gather, the labels seem to be concerned about cannibalizing their biggest market with a free streaming service. There also seems to be a lot of chatter about whether [...]
Free Isn’t Working, What’s Next?
In April of 2006, I spoke in Hong Kong at the Nokia N Series launch. The focus of my talk, that music as a product was dead; the future of music was service-based. At the time, senior executives at EMI were outraged by my perspective. I still believe it’s the future, we have to embrace [...]
Lily Allen Steps Up
Hooray for Lily Allen, she had the guts to stand up and say enough is enough, “File-sharing’s not OK for British music. I want to get people working together to use new digital opportunities to encourage new artists.” Not since Metallica’s stance against Napster ten years ago has an artist so boldly stood up to [...]
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Billboard.biz- Echo Nest, 7digital Partner For New DIY Platform September 2, 2010
- Sonos Signs Up Spotify September 2, 2010
- Analysis: Government Needs To Spur Innovation As Well As Protect September 2, 2010
- Business Matters: Zaptunes, Kickstarter, Vivendi and more September 2, 2010
- Apple, Google To Clash In Music Space By Christmas September 2, 2010
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- Toshiba at IFA 2010 – a new dimension for home entertainment September 2, 2010
- Philips Unveils A Range Of Advanced Consumer Products That Help People Enjoy A Healthier And Better Life In A Simple Way September 2, 2010
- Quno First to Launch Social Games at UK Train Stations with SCVNGR September 2, 2010
- Newfield Wireless Announces Availability of TrueCall Tax Report September 1, 2010
- Cloud Industry Forum endorses new ASA powers September 1, 2010
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...
This week on the show the third installment of my series on piracy and anti-piracy that started in Episode 53 with Ben Rush, the CEO of Audiolock .net and continued in Episode 54 with Alex Jacob, Communications Manager at the International federation of the Phonographic industry. Guests on the show...