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An Interview with Thumbplay Music Ceo Evan Schwartz on Designing a Great Music Service
This is part two of my interview with Evan Schwartz, who is the CEO and co-Founder of Thumbplay Music. In this segment, Schwartz talks about balancing passive consumption with active engagement in the fan musical experience, as well as, how elements of gaming can be incorporated into a streaming music service. Hypebot: As we empower passive ...
Size of the Average Music Library: 7,160 Songs
The average TidySongs user has 7,160 songs in their music library. These people may not be your average music fan. That's clear. What's obvious is that these users likely didn't pay for a majority of these songs. For the inundated, TidySongs operates like a music library nanny. It comes in and fills in your missing titles, ...
TrueAnthem Gets $2.9 Million for Ad Supported Music
San Francisco based trueAnthem has grabbed $2.9 million in first round funding for its online and supported music service according to an SEC filing. It joins Guevara (who hits 160,000 users according to a tweet yesterday) and others in a sector that has seen its share of failures. The startup hopes to help major clients reach ...
RDIO COO Predicts a Groundswell of Interest and Subscribers in Online Music Streaming
Recently, I spoke with Carter Adamson, who is the COO of RDIO. In this interview, Adamson talks about the challenges of raising awareness for a music service and keeping fans actively engaged. Hypebot: What are the challenges of raising awareness for RDIO in a cost-effective manner? Carter Adamson: It's difficult for new businesses to stand out ...
Court Tells Universal We Can Resell Our Promo CDs
The U.S. Court of Appeals shot down copyright infringement allegations from Universal Music Group and affirmed an eBay seller's right to resell promotional CDs that he buys from used music and other stores. In an opinion issued Tuesday, the court held: “UMG transferred title to the particular copies of its promotional CDs and cannot maintain an ...
5 Important Things to Know About Bittorrent Stats
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 ...
Rootmusic Gets $2.3 Million to Help Musicians Build Better Facebook Pages
(UPDATE) According to a filing with the SEC, RootMusic has recieved a total of $2.3 million in funding to build out its popular application that helps musicians design more robust Facebook pages. The company has not yet named the source of the investment. (Update: Funding came from Mohr Davidow Ventures with David Feinleib. It's BandPage app ...
Free Trip: Send a Music Tech Company to SXSW
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 ...
Latest EMI News: Pink Floyd Resigns, but March Miracle Sill Needed
Despite a recent court ruling that a deal signed in the pre-download age could be not applied to digital sales, Pink Floyd has dropped its lawsuit against EMI and resigned. “All legal disputes between the band and the company have been settled as a result of this new deal," EMI said in a statement. But EMI's ...
86% Of Fans Want iTunes to Price Match Amazon
Fans want iTunes to price match Amazon. With a keynote from Steve Jobs coming this month, the writers behind TMM surveyed their readers on what they hoped will be announced. 86% of them want iTunes to price match with Amazon's services. It's possible, but not likely. With 70% of the digital music download market, Apple doesn't ...
