All Entries Tagged With: "mobile music"
EXCLUSIVE: Video Interview – Vanessa Thomas (SVP Sales) and David Bakula (SVP Analytics) of Nielsen Entertainment Canada
Video Interview with Vanessa Thomas and David Bakula, of Nielsen Entertainment Canada, who discuss the company’s global service of monitoring what consumers purchase and how they do so, whether it’s film, TV or music.
Digital Music Trends Podcast
In episode 55 this week, Andrea Leonelli, interviews Denver Thomas CEO of Music2Text (which just launched last week). This is one NOT to miss!
Next Mobile Battleground Is Music Subscription Services
The mobile music scene is once again a hotbed of startup activity. In the first wave of innovation, the focus was on ringtones. Now the fashionable thing is music subscription services. The list of companies dabbling in the space are too many to count. Just this week, a Berkeley, Calif. startup called MOG, which has [...]
Mobile Music Gets Seriously Disruptive
There’s a real depth to the innovation happening within mobile music – and not just from the usual suspects. Didiom Brings ‘Place-Shifting’ To Blackberry Last week it was announced that Didiom, the mobile music place-shifting application, is being introduced to the Blackberry Curve. For those not familiar with ‘place-shifting’, this simply refers to the process [...]
Nokia’s UK “All You Can Eat” Music Handset Announced
Nokia today announced that the UK trial of it’s all-you-can-eat-for-a-year and-share-with-all-your-mates music service “Comes With Music” will be supported on the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic handset. This is a fairly low-end device that will retail significantly below the iPhone in the UK and will be launched in partnership exclusively via Carphone Warehouse’s 805 UK shop locations [...]
Vodafone UK to take Live! online
The world’s largest mobile carrier (by revenue) today announced that it has truly seen the light for mobile consumer data and plans to more tightly integrate its Vodafone Live! portals with an online presence. Known more for their services to business, Vodafone has never really been up there with the Orange’s and Three’s of this [...]
Securitisation of Sound Recordings
Are revenues derived from sound recordings securitisable? If not, why not? Should they be made so, in order for record companies to offer attractive investment opportunities for major investment funds?







Apple’s iTunes Store gave labels much-needed succour after its launch in 2003, slowing down big losses by replicating physical’s per-track purchase paradigm in digital. But now, even after many such services have abandoned copy locks, growth in downloads has largely flatlined, or even worse. The new promised land lays in...


