Comments on: For Mobile Music-As-a-Service, How Soon Is Now?

By: MOG Finally Goes Mobile With New iPhone, Android Apps

MOG Finally Goes Mobile With New iPhone, Android Apps — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:03:21 +0000

[...] music apps have come since Rhapsody became the first U.S. subscription service to introduce an app last September. It also indicated how far they have to go. MOG’s feature-rich app allows many levels of [...]

By: 5 Reasons I’m Still Not Paying for a Music Subscription Service – GigaOM

5 Reasons I’m Still Not Paying for a Music Subscription Service – GigaOM — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:01:19 +0000

[...] of albums and song files, online streams are replacing desktop playback and mobile access is renewing interest in on-demand music subscriptions. Older services such as Rhapsody and Napster now appear prescient, [...]

By: As MOG Goes Mobile, the U.S. Waits (and Waits) for Spotify – GigaOM

As MOG Goes Mobile, the U.S. Waits (and Waits) for Spotify – GigaOM — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:19:59 +0000

[...] on-demand access to a large library of songs, following Thumbplay’s launch earlier this month and Rhapsody’s last year -– and representing a further erosion of opportunity for Spotify, the European streaming music [...]

By: Newly Independent Rhapsody’s Subscriber Base Still Shrinking – GigaOM

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:32:10 +0000

[...] its iPhone application in September and saw quick uptake, with hundreds of thousands of consumers test-driving the app in its first few weeks of availability. But that didn’t translate into sales right [...]

By: How MOG Eventually Found Its Mojo – GigaOM

How MOG Eventually Found Its Mojo – GigaOM — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:02:46 +0000

[...] may be warming to them, especially as the price drops and the services improve. The battle may be decided in the mobile sphere, where MOG promises an app in the coming months. Use of the mobile service will require a higher [...]

By: Play.me Jumps on the Freemium Bandwagon, But Will the Model Stick? – GigaOM

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:32:32 +0000

[...] entry further crowds a music subscription market that includes Spotify, incumbents Rhapsody (owned by RealNetworks) and Best Buy-owned Napster, new entrant MOG, and forthcoming Rdio. As [...]

By: Would Anyone Pay for MySpace Music? – GigaOM

Would Anyone Pay for MySpace Music? – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:02:30 +0000

[...] satisfying content owners — and other music subscription services that are still seeing more experimentation than customer traction. And for a company that’s already admitted it’s long stopped innovating, MySpace would [...]

By: Deezer: Another Startup That Will Face the Music on Premium Streaming

Deezer: Another Startup That Will Face the Music on Premium Streaming — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:22:32 +0000

[...] showing that it’s different from its rivals in that respect. Paid subscriptions for music have always been a tough nut to crack, and mobile apps aren’t yet bringing in new customers. And as free desktop streaming services [...]

By: Meet Google, the Music Search Engine

Meet Google, the Music Search Engine — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:17 +0000

[...] a popup window within Google’s results page, as well as links to hear the same songs via Imeem, RealNetworks’ Rhapsody, MySpace-owned iLike and web radio provider Pandora on their own web sites. Lala’s streams [...]

By: McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Observations: Services - October 20, 2009

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:25:44 +0000

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By: With MOG, Will Music Subscription Services Hit a Tipping Point?

With MOG, Will Music Subscription Services Hit a Tipping Point? — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:01:19 +0000

[...] mobile applications and the promise of on-demand access to any song, anytime, anywhere has helped stimulate consumer interest in subscriptions — and presented a potential threat to iTunes’ [...]

By: News to Us: B&N eReader, Bullish on Android @CTIA, App Addiction, and More « MobileBehavior

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:07:42 +0000

[...] For Mobile Music-As-a-Service, How Soon Is Now? | Gigaom With the Internet transforming how we manage our data and the movement of music to the cloud, businesses are vying to wrap their head around new models of making money. Rhapsody's free app is leading in the iPhone store with over 330,000 downloads, and Spotify is said to be the next big thing. Tags [...]

By: rohit

rohit — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:37:31 +0000

+5 for Smiths/Morrissey/Marr reference.