All Entries Tagged With: "INgrooves"
Spotify: Labels Win, Artists Lose?
Spotify only turned a year old this month and yet they have constantly been mentioned in the press for their plans of expansion, from the 3UK/HTC phone to tie-ins with Swedish telco Telia for a possible TV service. Before we get caught up in the fairy tale story though one must ask, for a start-up [...]
TMV Video Interview – Robb McDaniels, CEO and Founder – INgrooves
With Robb McDaniels recent Op-Ed in Billboard earlier this week TMV thought it apt to post the video interview we undertook with him a couple of months back. Rob touches on the streaming business models and some of the issues for content owners and distributors to consider. We also get Robb to comment on the [...]
Does Streaming Cannibalise A-La-Carte Sales?
In Europe, particularly the UK, uptake of music streaming services has been explosive. The two services driving this explosion are we7.com and Spotify. Almost each week you hear media reports of one being larger than the other in terms of the number of consumers using their “free” ad-funded services. Yet if the service is free [...]







Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...


Everyone is now well familiar with the story of Spiral Frog and how it buried the ad-supported download model. Reasons given for this are numerous, ranging from reports of blatant mismanagement to non-compatibility with iPods to consumer resistance to being force fed a 60 or 90 second commercial before the...