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An Ocean of Pennies - Pay-Per-Play Music Streaming Service Launches in UK
Psonar is a UK music startup that will let users stream songs they don't own for a penny. There's no advertising or monthly subscription required. The company bills users directly on their phone bill, as well as, though PayPal and credit cards. This Pay Per Play streaming service is being built on top of their current locker ...
The First 3D 360-Degree Music Video Arrives
In 2010, we saw several highly innovative and interesting music videos debut. Some of these were worth writing about due to the sheer amount of work and timing that went into their production. Others enabled fans to choose their own adventure in the video and end it as they wished. In my opinion, this new music video ...
Sony's Music Unlimited's Big Secret: It's Powered by Gracenote and Omnifone
Gracenote and Omnifone used MIDEM to announce that their tech is driving the back-end of “Music Unlimited," Sony's new cloud digital music service designed to take on both iTunes and music streamers. Consumers may not care, but competitors and the industry certainly do. All four major labels have signed on to this new Sony network designed ...
#Midem Digital Music Future Panel - Going Cloud or Getting Cloudy
Steve Mayall, the Managing Director, Music Ally moderated a MidemNet Saturday panel. The participants included: Thomas Hesse of Sony Music Entertainment, Christoph Lange, of German music streamer Simfy, Harry Maloney of Catch Media and Daren Tsui, the CEO & Co-Founder of mSpot. But will 2011 be remembered as the year of cloud music? The panelists all ...
Roostie - We're Not Myspace, We Don't Have Everything, but Here's 3,000 Awesome Bands
Roostie is a new artist portal, but with a twist. They're only going to have 3,000 hand-picked and talented acts profiled on the site. The company has a music panel that decides who gets on the site and who stays on MySpace. The owners don't want to be the next MySpace nor can they afford to be. Behind the ...
Why You Should Buy the Next Song You I.D. - Soundhound is All-Time, Top Paid iPad App
Apple's counting down towards its 10 billionth download from the App Store worldwide. In light of this, they have released a page within the iTunes Store that shows the top app downloads of all-time. The lists are heavy on music, with Pandora charting just below Facebook in the All-Time Free iPhone Apps section. However, the most ...
Rumor: iTunes and Safari to Merge, Become Web App
This is only a rumor, but it's an interesting one. Three Guys and a Podcast claims that Apple is planning to replace the current version of iTunes with a web-only application that is exclusive to Safari. The move would help Apple bring a large audience to their niche web browser. Apparently, this software merger has been ...
Social Music Games - Lackluster or Blockbuster?
Are social gaming and music the perfect match? MXP4 thinks so. In recent months, they've designed many apps that combine these two elements, which have been very successful. Each one appears to have increased engagement among fans and gotten shared widely on social networks. But are their efforts ones that we can count on interesting fans ...
We7 Makes First Move out of UK, Enters Ireland
UK music streaming service we7 launched in Ireland today. This is their first move outside of the UK since their founding in 2008. Users will be able to create personal radio stations and request songs for free. As well, for 4.99 a month, they will gain access to on-demand streams and lose the advertizing. For 9.99, ...
How To: Engage Fans on Twitter Like Snoop Dogg
This post is by Hypebot intern Hisham Dahud. His Twitter: @HishamDahud. As a Hypebot reader, you're undoubtedly informed on the importance of artist-fan relationships and how Twitter has broken down the walls between the artist and the fan by keeping each one at arm's length from another. Yet still, many artists I know refuse to enter the ...
