All Entries Tagged With: "Imeem"

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…

Dec, 30 2009 4 Comments Full Story

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” [...]

Dec, 17 2009 2 Comments Full Story

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 [...]

Dec, 14 2009 12 Comments Full Story

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 in the [...]

Dec, 07 2009 5 Comments Full Story

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 of [...]

Dec, 03 2009 6 Comments Full Story

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 [...]

Nov, 24 2009 6 Comments Full Story

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 [...]

Nov, 19 2009 14 Comments Full Story

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 [...]

Sep, 29 2009 0 Comments Full Story

PART 3: The Streaming Music Business – Is It Sustainable?

In this third instalment of TMVs analysis of the sustainability of the music streaming business, we examine the issue from a brand and media agency buying perspective. Key elements for any media agency or brands is the need to realise value in terms of targeting and acquisition uptake for their campaigns associated with ad-funded streaming [...]

Sep, 01 2009 1 Comments Full Story

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 early [...]

Aug, 31 2009 1 Comments Full Story