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With no new licensing terms, Warner Music Group demanded that thousands of its videos be removed from YouTube, The New York Times reported.
It is expected that with music videos a favorite staple among YouTube users, and with the company going big in video advertising, music companies will expect nothing but to be fully compensated.
Does this mean the end of Madonna in YouTube?
Originally posted on December 22, 2008 @ 8:38 am
Mobile company go2 Media has teamed up with Zvents to create go2 Music, the industry’s first complete mobile music portal with national coverage and local concert recommendations.
Mobile users visiting m.go2.com can set their location and click Music to browse new music reviews, news, venues and local concert picks or to search for known local shows and venues, all for free.
go2 has partnered with Zvents to bring its local event content to go2 users in a manner optimized for mobile devices. go2’s mobile publishing platform blends Zvents’ sourced events and go2 local recommendations with services like maps, directions and local search to deliver a complete mobile site for discovering and connecting with local music.
Originally posted on December 15, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
PositiveMusicandDownloads.com, a web site devoted to positive, values-based music, has launched to fill a void in the music industry. Patterned after iTunes, songs can be downloaded to MP3 players or shipped through mail. Individual songs sell for 99 cents. CDs are priced between $8 and $16.95 and albums at $9.99.
“The site will have broad appeal to those who don’t like negotiating a landmine of questionable material on the typical download sites,” said Rust. “Too often the industry has dictated what type of music we should be listening too. Artists who have a more positive message can’t always get past music industry gatekeepers,” Gaylen Rust, founder of PositiveMusicandDownloads.com said.
Artists associated with major record labels as well as independent and emerging musicians are represented.
Originally posted on December 1, 2008 @ 6:00 am
Universal Music Group (UMG) and Meebo have entered into an agreement to provide Meebo users with ad-supported videos from many of the most popular chart-topping artists in the world. The agreement will kick off by Meebo featuring artists Kanye West, Ludacris and The Killers at Meebo.com, where users will be able to view videos from the artists to promote their new albums. To augment the promotions, UMG will embed Meebo Rooms on official artist pages to enable real-time social interactions among fans.
The agreement with UMG creates opportunities for Meebo users to enjoy premium content and gives UMG access to premium promotional space to create significant online buzz for their artists. In addition to featuring new, hit videos on Meebo.com, UMG will utilize Meebo Rooms to enable real-time social interaction for fans visiting UMG artists’ official web properties. In the past, UMG has used Meebo Rooms to power a number of popular events, including an online listening party for Kanye West’s Graduation album and a live chat with hip-hop icon LL Cool J.
Originally posted on November 25, 2008 @ 7:27 am
Microsoft’s digital and entertainment music service Zune has forged agreements with major and independent music labels to bring new value to the subscription music model. The Zune Pass subscription service currently gives consumers on-demand access to millions of tracks for $14.99 per month. Starting today subscribers will also get to select 10 tracks per month to keep and add them to their permanent collection (an estimated $10 value).
Agreements have been signed between Microsoft and EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group, as well as independent distributors INgrooves, Independent Online Distribution Alliance and The Orchard. The Orchard delivers digital music, video and brand services globally, and represents labels including Barsuk Records (Nada Surf) and Fania Records (Hector Lavoe, Celia Cruz). IODA represents labels including Arts & Crafts (Broken Social Scene, The Stills) and Ghostly International (Matthew Dear, School of Seven Bells). The new enhanced subscription model came about as a result of close collaboration with all of these companies.
Zune Pass subscribers will have the added benefit of retaining digital rights management (DRM)-free MP3 tracks from Sony BMG and UMG, in addition to MP3 tracks from EMI Music, Warner Music Group and a large portion of the independent music labels. With the addition of tracks from UMG and Sony BMG, Zune will soon offer over 90 percent of its music in the MP3 format.
Originally posted on November 10, 2008 @ 4:41 pm