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Apple's iTunes Turns 10 Years Old, Dominates Music
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This Sunday Apple's iTunes app reached an astounding milestone; it turned 10 years old. Originally launched on January 9, 2001—nine months before the introduction of the iPod on October 23, 2001—the app has gained many fans and enemies over the course of its decade long evolution. In that time span, iTunes went from zero to selling over 10 billion songs and gained control of 66.2 percent of the digital music market. It also expanded its scope as a digital music ...
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SoundCloud Embeds Content ID Technology
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SoundCloud has collaborated with Audible Magic, a digital media identification and copyright tracking service provider. This technology will be used to help identify the ownership rights of artists, record labels, and other music copyright owners. It will also give rights holders more control over how they make their content available and ensure creators can share work with the security and ease. “We chose Audible Magic because the company offers one of the most trusted solutions for music copyright identification on ...
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Top 6 Missing Features from Thumbplay Music
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In past month, I've had the pleasure of using Thumbplay Music. I had recently bought myself an iPod Touch and wanted to experiment with a cloud-based music service. It's been a pretty good experience. I've mostly used the mobile app and have only dabbled in the desktop player. But, I wanted to highlight six of the missing features of Thumbplay Music. Not all of these suggestions are perfect and several the Thumbplay Music team may be in the process of ...
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Suicide Notice: Would a U.S. Launch Kill Spotify?
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Had Spotify launched in the U.S., recent reports argue it would've bled them dry. Allegedly, the major labels demanded such large minimum guarantees that Spotify began to question if the financial risk added up. Since the company is nearing profitability in Europe, technology writer Sarah Lacy contends that it might be best if they skip coming stateside and build their business. Rather than giving into label demands, Lacy believes that Spotify should “retreat, build in other countries, perfect its model, ...
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Free Trip: Send a Music Tech Company to SXSW
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SoundCtrl, in conjunction with Pepsico, are sending five music tech companies to SXSX—free of charge. This is the second installment of their FlashFWD program. With it, SoundCtrl crowd-sources their readers to nominate innovative music tech companies. Once a company receives 50 nominations, they are added to a list of which 5 are chosen as winners by the SoundCtrl board. The winners have free trip to SXSW where they are honored at the FlashFWD reception. In 2010 SoundCtrl gave free trips ...
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5 Important Things to Know About Bittorrent Stats
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BitTorrent has reached a milestone; they now have 100 million monthly users. In addition, the company has also disclosed that it has over 20 million daily active users and over 400,000 daily client downloads. Depending who you are, those stats either make you cringe or leave you gleeful. My bet is that it makes you cringe. That users check in to the clients from over 220 countries every day isn't something you're too happy about. Here's a list of five important things ...
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Thanks to Social Marketing Guru Chris Brogan for 3 Words to Guide Us in 2011
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One of the few non-music industry thinkers that I try to read daily is Chris Brogan and every New Year the social marketing expert and blogger chooses three words to guide his efforts in the coming year. This year Chris' words are: Reinvest, Package and Flow. As Chris, says “Instead of resolutions, which don't usually help me very much, I work hard on using these words as a lighthouse for my actions and efforts." That's simple yet powerful advice, and ...
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Combining Email Marketing with Social Media Rises
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Email marketers for music and other media are increasingly adding social media using elements like “share with your network" and buttons to connect with brands on Twitter and Facebook in their email campaigns. A new survey says the combination is the top tactic marketers worldwide expect to increase budgets on in 2011. According to a November 2010 survey of business executives around the globe by StrongMail, nearly two-thirds of companies will increase spending on email marketing, and 57% will put ...
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