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Google Gets Closer To Music
Speculation was rife last week about a soon to be announced (Wednesday this week 28th October 2010) service involving Google’s search technology and a number of different music streaming and a-la-carte retailers. According to insiders speaking to the Wall Street Journal , the music will be provided in the form of free, embedded streams from [...]
TMV Completes 19 Video Interviews at MidemNet 2009
Whilst the TMV team could not make all the conference sessions at MidemNet (to read TMVs Midemnet 2009 report click here), we were instead very busy video interviewing keynote speakers and senior executives on their views regarding the direction of the digital music business. A list of the 18 video interviews is provided below:
J.Y.Park, [...]
Indies, Myspace Music and Market Share
A few days after the newly appointed President of Myspace Music, Courtney Holt reached out to independent record labels during his MidemNet keynote, Merlin the representative body of 12,000 independent labels were already voicing their concern over terms.
Merlin’s CEO Charles Caladas made clear the reasons why they had not yet signed a licensing deal with [...]
Myspace gets it wrong!
The Age (Melbourne Australia) is the closest we get to a newspaper like the Independent in the UK. TMV was quoted in The Age in reference to comments we made about the fact Myspace Music’s equity deal with the major labels, whilst excluding independent labels from the deal was “morally reprehensible”. TMV steadfastly stand by [...]
Dot. Bleep Conference Report
Dot. Bleep the conference put together by AIR (Association of Independent Record Labels in Australia) had a stellar line-up of speakers and panellists. The proceedings got off to a great start with TMV evangelising about the importance of the emerging markets – in opening the conference with a presentation focusing on the Current Global Digital [...]
Indies break rank to sign with MySpace Music
Earlier today it was announced that independent music aggregator IODA has come to an agreement for its catalogue of labels to be distributed via the new Myspace Music service.
But what does this mean in terms of the global negotiations with Merlin? Merlin (not IODA or The Orchard) are meant to be the primary industry [...]
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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...