All Entries Tagged With: "Merlin"
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Event Report: AIM Music Connected 2009 (London)
Yesterday TMV attended the annual AIM Music Connected event in London. The event was full to the brim for the whole day and there was good networking for all who used the opportunity to do so. TMV managed to get some juicy quotes from the keynote and panel sessions of the day, all of which [...]
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 [...]
TMV Music Industry Predictions for 2009
If 2008 was the year that music went truly digital, we’re predicting that 2009 will be the year that music got a lot more consumer-friendly. With any luck, 2008 will be the year we look back upon and say ‘that was the last time we heard about DRM limiting sales’ or ‘that was the last [...]
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 [...]
Myspace Music streams 1bn+ tracks in 1st week
MySpace Music has streamed more than 1bn tracks since its launch just over a week ago, according to a report in TechCrunch. A MySpace statement claims that the music service, which went live in the US on September 25, reached the figure “only a few days after launching”. With a global registered user base of [...]
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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...