What do you do when you release a single from a posthumous album? To promote the new release “Behind the Mask,” Sony Music and Radical Media turned to Michael Jackson’s fans — literally — for an epic crowdsourced music video featuring contributions from 103 countries. Read More »
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Two German music fans were fed up with geo-blocking on YouTube, which has been preventing them from accessing music videos from major-label artists. So they turned the tables and started to block employees of major music labels from accessing popular blogs and other websites. Read More »
Vevo started off with a bang, further confirming what we already knew — that people really like watching music videos online. So much so, in fact, that the online music video site launched on Dec. 8 still managed to beat out existing sites… Read More »
It makes sense that Vevo, the music video site that launched as a joint venture between Universal Music and Sony Music yesterday, is trying to cast itself as MTV meets Hulu. An unlikely underdog when it entered the scene back in early 2007,… Read More »
If Vevo is supposed to be the future of the music industry, that future has gotten off to a slow and ignominious start. Apparently Vevo’s servers are still hungover from a wild night of partying with Bono, Adam Lambert, Mariah Carey, and Lady Gaga, because… Read More »
Online music video destination site Vevo launched tonight with an introduction by Bono, who forecast that the new site would strike a new paradigm in the music industry. “Friends, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of a great old cash… Read More »
VEVO, the forthcoming music video site from Universal and Sony music (and powered by YouTube), announced today that it will also be getting content from “the vaults” of CBS Interactive Music Group. Starting next year, VEVO will run programming from Last.fm and more than 90 CBS… Read More »
Vevo, the forthcoming music video site from Universal and Sony Music and powered by YouTube, announced via Twitter this afternoon that it is officially launching on Tues. Dec. 8th. Here’s a screen grab of the Tweet: The only thing missing from Vevo’s Twitter… Read More »
Vevo, the forthcoming premium music video site, has received a strategic investment from the Abu Dhabi Media Co. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but sources tell MediaMemo that the transaction values the venture at $300 million, which matches previous reported… Read More »
Sony Music Entertainment announced today it will join Vevo, the music video and content-related site conceived by Universal Music and YouTube. Terms of the agreement were not announced. With the addition of Sony, two of the four major record labels are now onboard with Vevo,… Read More »
The appropriate soundtrack for the latest music kerfuffle for YouTube would be “The Sound of Silence,” that is, if they let you hear it. Because of stalled negotiations with the UK’s Performing Rights Society (PRS), YouTube has blocked thousands of music videos in that country. YouTube… Read More »
