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MidemNet Chooses Top 15 Digital Music Startups
MidemNet Lab, a new showcase for cutting-edge digital music initiatives, has named 15 start-ups to present in a dedicated area during the Midem convention this January in Cannes. The 15 start-ups chosen by Music Ally and a jury of entrepreneurs cover a range of digital fields that offer opportunities for the music industry including live applications ...
Youtube Gets More Social, Adds Facebook Feeds
YouTube has been adding a lot more social features in recent months. In addition to linking YouTube accounts to social networks like Twitter and Facebook via AutoShare, friend suggestions and easier private sharing options, users can now find the YouTube accounts of their friends on Facebook, Yahoo! and Gmail. Last week YouTube added another “social feature" ...
#Musicmonday Tops Twitter Trends
#musicmonday, where users tweet about their favorite new music, was the most used hashtag on Twitter in 2009. #sxsw was number three on the list. Beyond those two, Susan Boyle and Michael Jackson were the only music related terms to appear in the Top 10 across 6 categories of Twitter's Trending Topics of 2009. You can ...
Bad News for Spotify: No Illegal Download Drop
Perhaps the most persuasive argument for labels and artists taking smaller payments from Spotify and other ad supported music services, was the belief that it was a substitute for illegal downloading. But a new study suggests that might not be the case. A survey by The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) showed that 1 in 3 people ...
Music Ally's 2009 Guide to Digital Music Startups
Music Ally's 200 Digital Music Startups Of 2008 got so much attention last year, that they decided to do it again. This A-Z list is based on companies that they covered in 2009, so its not 100% complete. If you or someone you know and love failed to make the list, please add it to the ...
Pandora Tops 40m Users, Attracts New Ad $'s
Pandora topped 40 million total registered users in early December - a number roughly equivalent to the combined population of the 30 largest U.S. cities. 20 million of those users were added in 2009 alone. In December, Pandora has been adding 600,000 new users wach week half of whom come from mobile. Pandora grabbed 44% of ...
Is Amazon MP3 Headed for the Cloud?
Many in the digital music space believe that Apple's purchase of Lala is an indication that iTunes will soon be helping consumers move their music into the cloud for everywhere access. So yesterday's announcement that Amazon had added media streaming to its online content delivery service CloudFront caught my eye. Amazon CloudFront is primarily in the ...
User Growth Slows Across Major Social Networks
MySpace may be experiencing the greatest decline, but unique user visits are flat or declining slightly across most major social networks. Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are each aggressively rolling out new features, but none have yet had a major impact on traffic. Don't extrapolate from this data that social networking is dying. Rather,it may have just ...
Tunecore Signs with Myspace Music
(Updated) It's A Smart Addition For TuneCore, But Is It Worth It For Artists? TuneCore artists can now share in the ad revenue generated when their songs are streamed on MySpace Music, thanks to a new deal between the companies. This marks the first time that TuneCore has offered its flat fee ...
Monster's Miles Davis Tribute Headphones Honor the Definition of Cool
Monster, renowned for its many advanced consumer electronics accessories and fast becoming one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-performance headphones, is proud to announce the upcoming introduction of the world's first audio hardware product to bear the official name and signature of legendary trumpeter Miles Davis - the new “Miles Davis Tribute" high-performance in-ear headphones. ...
