Spotify
Warner Music Decide Their Future In Free Streaming Services
With Warner Music Group’s CEO Edgar Bronfman’s comments this week about how free streaming music services are “clearly not positive for the industry”, and his stating that in the future Warner will not be embracing such deals, how does this affect WMG’s place in the future music market?
Sharing Is Becoming Less Of A Dirty Word
Developments in both the music industry and that of how we interact as a society (through an increased use and reliance on the internet as a means of communication) have gone firmly hand-in-hand over the last twenty years. In fact, it is quite possible to draw correlations between the two through the well-documented ups and [...]
Streamed Tracks Considered For Chart Inclusion
As the BBC reports that The Official UK Charts Company is looking to the future of it’s charts by considering implementing ways of including the number of streams of tracks from services such as Spotify, Last.fm and We7, it poses a number of problems that must be addressed before the idea can be fully integrated.
Spotify Give Glimpse Of Mobile Service
Today Spotify released a short video demonstrating an albeit early version of their mobile app for the Google Android platform.
While still in development, the demonstration gives those of us curious about how the app will look and perform an insight on what to expect.
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While they are still refusing to give release dates for apps on [...]
Apple's Future In A Streaming World
The pace of change in the music industry is faster than it’s ever been – as with many technological advancements, by the time you are aware of, or used to, a new work practice or development, it is already on it’s way out, or is being surpassed by new emerging ones.
The music industry will have [...]
Spotify & 7Digital Announce Download Deal
It seems that someone has been reading my recent posts, as today Spotify have announced a deal with 7Digital to include buy links for users to purchase and download tracks they have heard through the service.
Stream Upselling, Not Selling Upstream…
With the potential shown by current internet darling, Spotify, there lacks a previous revenue potential for labels, and arguably for streaming services. While the key word of advertising hopes to compensate somewhat for lost music sales, whether they be digital or physical, new style streaming services do not allow for middle ground between new solely [...]
Spotify, or "How I was challenged by Churchill"
I’ve never been one for jumping on bandwagons. I’d always rather see the wagon coming and inform people – possibly giving my opinion on the importance/chance of success/thinking behind it (“that wagon has three wheels – no chance it’ll work” or suchlike).
You can’t turn anywhere online in the realms of music right now without a [...]
