Posts Tagged ‘industry’
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Rogers, the former head of Yahoo Music, correctly points out, as others have before him, that it is not the music industry that is dying. It is the CD business. [MORE]
Tags: cd, downloads, ian rogers, industry, music, yahoo
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
They are already the world’s largest concert promoters, they’ve branched out to form their own ticketing service and record labels, and now Live Nation will seek to challenge iTunes’ digital music dominance by launching their own music service through their website. [MORE]
Tags: digital, download, industry, itunes, live nation, music
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
MySpace music combines free on-demand streaming music with buyable downloads from Amazon, ringtones and video and other content. Soon the service will offer artist merchandise (tshirts, etc.) and concert tickets. [MORE]
Tags: download, industry, music, myspace, online, recording, riaa, streaming
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Five music industry trade groups have reached what they call a breakthrough agreement on how royalties should be handled for streaming music online. [MORE]
Tags: agreement, industry, music, online, royalties, stream, streaming
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Forget buying an album on a USB stick, SanDisk just convinced the big labels to release (DRM free, thankfully) music on a 1 GB 15mm x 11mm x 1mm microSD card. And then they convinced Best Buy and Walmart to sell these things. [MORE]
Tags: drm, format, industry, labels, microSD, music, sandisk
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
The owner of the world’s largest music company is predicting a return to growth in the industry as new ways of making money from legal digital downloading come to fruition. [MORE]
Tags: apple, downloading, industry, mobile, music, profit, record labels, universal
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
On the streaming-music front in particular, the sad reality is that advertising revenue isn’t, and may never be, there to fully support the music industry’s wishful-thinking profit margins. [MORE]
Tags: download, fees, industry, mp3, music, online, radio, revenue, riaa, streaming
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