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Category Archives: marketing
Google vs Apple = Happy Major Music Labels
Google is talking with music labels on their plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its Android-based mobile users to play songs wherever they are. The music industry hopes to benefit from the competition … Continue reading
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Lady Gaga + Rock Band = Eric Cartman
Lady Gaga is signing on with Rock Band, a somewhat atypical pairing given the lack of a traditional rock band set up in GG’s music. Rock Band designers MTV Games and Harmonix will have to stretch the instrumentation a bit. … Continue reading
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Advertising: On-line overtakes print
A study by Outsell, to be released Monday, reveals that U.S. advertisers are spending more this year on digital media than on print. Long predicted, this Madison Avenue milestone has finally arrived thanks to a 9.6% boom in digital advertising … Continue reading
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Kindling without the Kindle
In a move similar to Apple using the iPod on Windows users to get people to consider a Mac, Amazon is offering the Kindle app as a free download for Windows desktops, along with free content, plus the ability to … Continue reading
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Scalping 2.0
From DigitalMusicNews: The Ultimate Scalping Heist Hits a Wall… Forget about the scruffy scalper outside the venue, that’s just pennies compared to the money floating online. Â And, for a clique of devious hackers, the ultimate ticketing scam produced millions before … Continue reading
iTunes Store hits 10B
Reuters Apple’s iTunes Store hit a landmark on Wednesday with the download of its 10 billionth song. A counter on the company’s home page hit the 10 billion mark at 4:43 p.m. ET — approximately 6 years and 10 months … Continue reading
Sam Phillips goes subscription route with fans
By this fall, singer-songwriter Sam Phillips will have released five EPs and a full-length studio album. She’s taken the step of making her music available through The Long Play, a subscription-only service on her website that gives members access to … Continue reading
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Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive
MySpace, rumored to be on the verge of purchasing the free music streaming site imeem, is struggling to keep up with its own payments to music copyright holders, according to a top News Corp executive — a problem that has … Continue reading
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Boyle Is Back: Amazon Pre-Orders ‘Breaking Records’
edited from Digital Music News Susan Boyle just got an extension on her fifteen minutes of fame, and this time, she’s cashing in. Â Instead of ad-free, non-monetized YouTube views, Boyle is now positioned for a serious windfall and setiing a … Continue reading
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This Is It , Part Two – iTunes Concedes, Just a Bit
Sony (the label) had been unable to finalize iTunes Store inclusion based on a demand to force-bundle the entire album download, one that conflicts with the iTunes singles approach. On Thursday afternoon, Apple reached out to confirm that a deal … Continue reading
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Bosh wins custody of domain names
In a positive spin for Internet property rights ( in line with this blog’s focus on artist copyright protection) Toronto Raptors forward Chris Bosh is offering to return nearly 800 domain names to their rightful owners for free after winning … Continue reading
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No New Jackson Tunes for iTunes
The iTunes Store will not be offering downloads from Michael Jackson’s posthumous album, This Is It, according to confidential information leaked late Tuesday to Digital Music News. Â Already, the lead single, “This Is It,” is making waves at radio, though … Continue reading
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More Embedding = More Music Sales?
Even as the web evolves into an interconnected, widget-friendly, 2.0-ready environment, most paid downloads ultimately happen through a central location like the iTunes Store. Now, backend provider MediaNet Digital is pushing a totally decentralized, embedded concept called MN Open. The … Continue reading
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Mad Men chooses Apple distribution instead of TV
The TV drama series Mad Men is set to forgo distribution by its previous broadcasters in Canada, following a deal for exclusive online availability through Apple, according to Media in Canada. Viewers of earlier seasons will have to watch the … Continue reading
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Two approaches to attracting music consumers
Radiohead’s frontman Thom Yorke announced that the band will no longer release full-length studio albums and instead focus on downloadable singles. Another new song is now floating around the net. Â ”These Are My Twisted Words” follows “Harry Patch (In Memory … Continue reading
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