Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Vevo owners rethink selling; Zvooq completes financing round; Brad Paisley helping to launch My Country Nation. Continue Reading
Do you want to hear more than music on your favorite pureplay streaming service? The findings from a study by Bridge Ratings indicate that many people are content with the status quo of songs only. “Adding news or commuter traffic content is likely not going to enhance the experience for most users of these services,” said Dave Van Dyke, Bridge Ratings’ president. Continue Reading
Juniper Research projected that revenue for digital music will be slow to rise from an estimated $12.3 billion in 2014 to about $13.9 billion in 2019. While listeners are likely to gravitate toward cloud-based services, Juniper’s report projected that pureplay streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora will be tested by the growth of personalized music services from Apple and Google. Continue Reading
Android Police released a report with details about the upcoming subscription service from YouTube. According to the site, the service will be called YouTube Music Key and the parent company’s Google Play Music All Access will be rebranded as Google Play Music Key. Continue Reading
We continue to reveal semifinalists in the Fifth Annual RAIN Internet Radio Awards. Today we are pleased to announce the 10 advancing nominees in the “Best Overall Online Radio Service” category. The single winners of all five categories will be revealed and honored at RAIN Summit Indy, September 9, in Indianapolis. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Radical.FM accepts Bitcoin; research on Germany’s music market; Indian FM radio outlook; charts detail music purchasing trends. Continue Reading
Debates over the digital music industry have been raging fast and furious of late. This week, INgrooves Music Group CEO and Founder Robb McDaniels wrote a guest post for Hypebot with his opinions on the current state of affairs. He highlighted how much (or how little) artists can monetize on YouTube. Continue Reading
“The Summer of Copyright.” We’ve been using that phrase recently, borrowed from broadcast attorney David Oxenford and his series of guest articles about this tumultuous year in copyright. Will the system of music royalties be rebooted when the Copyright Royalty Board establishes new rates? Will the decades-old “Consent Decrees” which govern how publishers and songwriters receive royalties be upheld or stricken down? Will pre-1972 music receive the copyright protection it has never had? What about terrestrial radio paying performance royalties for the first time in history — will it happen, and should it? Continue Reading
The June data from comScore revealed that 25 percent of the service’s active monthly unique visitors, an audience of almost 19 million, are Hispanic. That’s enough people to make Pandora the top music streaming platform for the demographic of listeners, even compared with endemic Hispanic sites such as Univision Digital. Continue Reading
More semifinalists in the Fifth Annual RAIN Internet Radio Awards. Today we are pleased to announce five semifinalists in the “Overall Digital Strategy” category. The single winners of all five categories will be revealed and honored at RAIN Summit Indy, September 9, in Indianapolis. Continue Reading
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This week: New webcast metrics from Triton Digital … Pono Music goes back to the finance well … Potify partners with BandPage … Pandora’s CFO speaks out … Shazam vs. SoundHound … Disney ditches radio Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Spotify’s unfilled job listings; Sinfini Music hits Australia; music business considering global release dates; two more execs join ADD. Continue Reading