Coldplay Will Warm To Streaming After Unit Sales Ebb
In October, Coldplay withheld its new album from streaming services like Spotify, Rdio , We7 and Mog.
But that absence is not indefinite. Read more at paidContent »
The 10 stories that defined tech in 2011
While 2011 was a busy year for the tech industry, don’t expect things to slow down in 2012. We’ve rounded up some of GigaOM’s biggest stories of the year with a bit of insight on what each will mean for 2012. Read more »
Rhapsody Now Has One Million Music Subs In The U.S. Next Stop: Europe
It’s taken ten years, and a last leg up by way of an acquisition of a competitor, but Rhapsody says that it has finally reached one million… Read more at paidContent »
3 ways to turn your Apple TV into a holiday decoration
The Apple TV can quickly be configured to turn any HDTV into a stunning holiday decoration, even without iTunes credentials. In addition to an HDTV and Apple TV, all you really need is connectivity to the internet via Ethernet or Wi-Fi and an HDMI cable Read more »
Nielsen: Android And Apple Dominate The App Space But Mobile Browser Rules
Apple’s and Android’s stronghold on the U.S. smartphone market has been the case for many quarters already, and figures out today from Niels… Read more at paidContent »
Last.fm serenades users with new discovery tool
Last.fm is returning to its roots as a music data and discovery service, launching a new product that lets users tap into a database of independent artists and musicians with a click. Read more »
Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free Rara.com
Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million… Read more at paidContent »
Rypple teams up with Spotify to reimagine goal setting
Goal setting is traditionally one of the most top-down aspects of business, with executives setting the agenda and employees often unclear on how their daily work fits into that vision. Now Rypple is teaming up with Spotify to reimagine goal setting with Social Goals 2.0. Read more »
Spotify puts Pandora in its sights with new Spotify Radio
Spotify is relaunching its Spotify Radio feature, enabling unlimited channels and skipping and more targeted channels in a bid to better take on Pandora. The improvements are limited to the desktop for now, but a mobile version is coming soon. Read more »
Why Deezer’s mouthy music claims don’t stack up
French music streaming service Deezer has been pushing hard to take on rivals like Spotify — and now wants to expand to 200 countries by next year. But do its claims match up to reality? Read more »
7digital Music Adds Microsoft To Its App List, Still Awaits Apple Approval
Music downloads may have taken a backseat to streaming services like Spotify in the buzz stakes, but with iTunes still driving more music sa… Read more at paidContent »
Got Spotify? Got friends? You should also get TuneTug
Can’t bear to hear “All I Want for Christmas is You” again at a holiday house party? You may be in luck. TuneTug is a mobile app that works with iTunes and Spotify to let party guests vote for the songs they want to hear next. Read more »
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Why we should separate the real platforms from the pretenders
Spotify says it’s a platform. But building a real platform takes more than throwing out a few APIs. To achieve business objectives like revenue growth, customer acquisition and network effects, would-be platform suppliers have to deliver audience, distribution and revenue ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The Morning Lowdown 12-1-11
» At least someone in the market is optimistic about Spain and Italy – *Amazon* has just launched the Kindle there. (paidContent)… Read more at paidContent »
Spotify Launching Integrated Apps Within Its Platform
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration t… Read more at paidContent »
The Morning Lowdown 11-30-11
» FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be ‘Liked’ (paidContent)
» Bets on Spotify’s news – radio… Read more at paidContent »
Spotify’s app platform: That’s it?
Many people had the hopes up for something truly revolutionary coming out of Spotify’s mystery event this Wednesday. Instead, we got an app platform that’s restricted to a desktop client, doesn’t offer partners any revenue and suspiciously smells like another platform bully power play. Read more »
Spotify turns up the volume with new app platform
Spotify is opening up its service to developers to create free applications inside its desktop app. The company is now enabling much more robust integration of apps inside its desktop client, allowing developers to tap into Spotify’s 15 million songs and fast growing user base. Read more »
What’s next for Spotify: The ultimate rumor guide
What’s next for Spotify: An MP3 download store, a commercial API that could empower developers to bring the service’s music everywhere, music playback without the need to download any software – or maybe just an iPad app? Read all about the rumors ahead of Wednesday’s press conference. Read more »
First Look: Spotify's TiVo App On Virgin Media UK
Virgin Media has finally made live Spotify’s first UK TV app. Virgin Media customers who are Spotify Premium subscribers can access the musi… Read more at paidContent »
Chart: Spotify's Growth Story; Next Stop: 100 Million Users?
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Spotify is getting its systems in order to support a planned 100 million users in the future, job openings suggest.
But, as it prepares to… Read more at paidContent »
Now With 2.5 Million Customers, Spotify Tries Patenting Itself
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Spotify’s paying customer base has grown by 25 percent (500,000) since Facebook started letting users spurt out their listening habits on Se… Read more at paidContent »
What’s next for Spotify: How about the web?
The web has been abuzz with speculations about a mystery Spotify event next week, with many arguing the service will launch a download store. But given its recent growth spurred by Facebook, I’d argue a web-based player would make more sense. Read more »
Spotify Announcing 'A New Direction' Next Week; What Is It?
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Spotify has invited press to an intriguing “global press conference” in New York next Wednesday, November 30, to answer the question “What’s… Read more at paidContent »
Music startups test their mettle in Europe
Brightcove VP Rags Gupta explains why music start-ups should test the waters across the pond before coming to the U.S.: “According to conventional wisdom, consumer start-ups should move to San Francisco for access to capital, talent, and ideas. But if you’re launching an online music company, consider London or Berlin.” Read more »
The confusing, contrary arguments over music streaming
Arguments over the compensation that artists get from streaming services like Spotify and Rdio just won’t go away — because everyone has wildly different experiences. So who’s got it wrong? Perhaps the real problem is that everybody is right in their own way. Read more »
Big In Sweden: Spotify-Crazy Youngsters Are Bellwether For Music Biz
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Spotify’s early traction in its native Sweden gives the world a glimpse at what a market looks like when strong music subscription services… Read more at paidContent »
Indie labels stage another Spotify walkout
A consortium of more than 200 small electronic music labels have become the latest to quit Spotify — and other streaming services — in a protest at the amount of money they earn. But can compensation ever match consumption? Read more »
It's Time For Transparency On Music Streaming Rates
Major labels may be hoping that new-wave digital music jukeboxes can make up for slowing downloads growth. But a drip-drip of labels pulling… Read more at paidContent »
Spotify Expected To Launch In More Countries This Week
Spotify is ready to launch in Belgium, Austria and Switzerland, possibly as early as this week, paidContent understands. Read more at paidContent »
Pandora: Spotify is our friend, not a competitor
It’s understandable for people to think that Spotify, the popular new kid on the online music industry block, as a competitor to Internet radio pioneer Pandora. But according to Pandora’s CTO and executive vice president of product Tom Conrad, the companies are actually friends, not foes. Read more »
Grooveshark is relaunching as a social music network
Grooveshark relaunched its music service with a much bigger emphasis on activity streams and other social features Thursday night, and company representatives told us that they have big plans in store that should help artists to make more money — because streaming alone doesn’t make anyone rich. Read more »
The 6 ways digital music is being disrupted
As media and entertainment went digital, many looked to the music sector as the canary in the coal mine. Digital comprises over 40 percent of consumer sales, but the whole market was worth only $5.9 billion in 2010. Even digital felt stagnant. But that’s changing. Read more »
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Connected world: the consumer technology revolution
Connectivity changes everything. That’s the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now connected to one another through not just our social networks but also our cars, the books we read, the albums we download and even our own health and wellness habits (to name just a few areas). With that in mind, GigaOM Pro has singled out certain areas in the technology industry where we see this shift to constant connectivity taking place most drastically. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Mixberry Media brings audio ads to streaming music apps
Mixberry Media is introducing a new ad platform aimed at inserting ads into the dead space in audio streams whenever a user switches channels or changes songs. The goal is to fill in the dead space in between songs with short brand messages. Read more »
First look: Spotify is coming to Roku
Spotify is close to launching a dedicated Roku channel, we’ve been told by a source familiar with both companies’ plans. The music subscription service could launch on Roku devices as early as next month. First screen shots of the channel’s UI look promising. Read more »
Spotifies May Steal Customers From Pandoras, With Facebook's Help
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Unlimited-access music subscription services will take almost a third of consumers’ digital music spending by 2015, analyst firm Gartner rec… Read more at paidContent »
What happens to ownership as the world goes digital?
The launch of Amazon’s new “Kindle lending” feature means another form of content is becoming something that we rent, Netflix-style, rather than owning. But moving to a rental rather than an ownership model changes our relationship to content, and not always in a good way. Read more »
Two Tracks For Digital Music: Aspiro White Label Deal; 7digital Tablet App
According to figures from IE Market Research, there are currently 832 million paid users of digital music worldwide, with that number expect… Read more at paidContent »
Let’s Get Physical: Spotify Latest To Sell Digital Content In Stores
Manifesting digital content in physical form seems to work pretty well as a go-to-market retail strategy. Read more at paidContent »
