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Three lessons for the media business from three very different media executives
Here’s what SoundCloud CEO Alexander Ljung, Universal Music CEO Lucian Grainge and DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg think about the future of the media and entertainment business.
Pinterest buddies up to the entertainment industry with new Vevo partnership
Pinterest is inching ever closer to the entertainment industry, this time by partnering with music video platform Vevo.
Universal Music Group nearing its digital tipping point
After the Napster years, the world’s biggest major label is approaching growth again, and is about to reach the point where it sells more music digitally than on discs.
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Universal Music agrees to pay indie artists Vevo royalties
The world’s biggest music label has always regarded music videos as promotional tools. But now that Vevo, the music video platform Universal co-owns with Sony, is making $150 million a year, the label agrees the indie artists who render these works deserve compensation.
The world’s hottest digital markets: a music map
Unlimited-access digital music services are racing to beat iTunes – and each other – in new countries each week. Our map breaks down the world’s digital music market, country by country.
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Call Of Duty Subscriptions Helped Fuel Vivendi
Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard says it will launch further direct consumer premium digital channels after the success of its Call Of Duty…
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Forecast: the evolution of the digital music industry
This report examines the U.S. digital music market’s key disruption vectors: the areas where large market shifts are occurring and where companies will position themselves to gain share and increase revenues.
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Megaupload Case Grows Bigger, Stranger
A New Zealand court today delayed its decision over whether to grant bail to the founder of Megaupload after prosecutors argued that Kim Dot…
Publisher Says No Duty To Reveal Grooveshark Source, Law Unclear
Can a music site sue to find out which of its employees used a blog post to accuse the company of piracy? The blog’s publisher says the anon…
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Updated: Day After Piracy Bill Collapses, Feds Shut Down Megaupload
The FBI today unsealed an indictment that charges file-sharing site Megaupload and its executives with a list of criminal charges, including…
All Eyes on Viacom/YouTube Case After Court Rules For Veoh
A California appeals court yesterday rejected Universal Music’s claim that video-sharing service Veoh didn’t do enough to protect content ow…
Megaupload Sues Universal For Pulling Down Celebrity Endorsement Video
The entertainment world is buzzing about a viral video that shows A-list artists like Kanye West and Alicia Keyes singing the praises of fil…
Call Of Duty Maker Booms As Vivendi Sells A Stake To Buy EMI
When Vivendi (EPA: VIV) announced it was buying EMI’s recorded music division last week, it cryptically said the deal would see it sell “500…
Report: Google To Put A Piece Into Its Music Puzzle With Universal Deal
On the heels of news last week that it has secured EMI’s recorded music division for nearly $2 billion, Universal Music is again in the news…
EMI Group Split Between UMG And Sony
Four years after the whole label sold to Terra Firma for £4.2 ($6.69) billion, now one half of EMI Group – the record music division, EMI M…
War Games Offset Music Decline For Vivendi
French entertainment and telecoms company Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has reported a strong first half, with record sales of its Activision (NSDQ: AT…
Baidu Signs Label Deal For Ting Music But Still Links To Pirated MP3s
While everyone’s attention was focused on Spotify finally launching services in the U.S., another online music milestone has been reached on…
Universal Said To Ink Music Deal With Apple Ahead Of iCloud Debut
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is said to have secured the services of the music industry’s “gang of four,” signing the remaining holdout, Universal Mus…
EMusic Reaches A Deal With EMI
eMusic, the online music “club” that offers members discounts on tracks in exchange for a monthly subscription fee, has struck a deal with a…
Mobile Lowdown 5-19-11: Apple Cloud, EMI; VZW Sues FCC; Latest Gartner Figs
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Apple’s apparently getting closer to a cloud music product after signing a deal with EM…
UMG Faces An Uphill Battle Against Veoh On Appeal
Universal Music Group argued one of the most closely watched copyright cases in digital media on Friday-and the panel of appeals judges who…
Music Biz Blocks YouTube Video, Musician Loses Award
An attempt of music rights holders to press YouTube for more money may have backfired: A European musician just lost a web video award because his video was blocked due to an ongoing conflict between Google and a rights holders group over music royalty rates.
Eminem Lawsuit Could Change How Digital Revenues Get Shared With Artists
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take the case, it looks like an appeals court win for rapper Eminem is going to stand. The c…
ISP Music Deals Coming This Summer
UK ISPs may be about to embark on bundled music offerings again, according to industry execs I asked whilst facilitating a panel discussion…
Mobile Lowdown: Apple’s Cloud; Motorola And HTML5 Gaming; Twitter; Samsung
Our rundown of mobile news to start your day. Today we look at the newest reports around Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and cloud services; Motorola’s n…
War Games Make Up For Music Losses At Vivendi
Vivendi (EPA: VIV) has reported a strong performance in 2010 with huge sales of Call of Duty boosting earnings in its games division by more…
Nokia’s ‘Comes With Music’ Disappears In 27 Markets
Nokia’s struggle to compete against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), and drive more sales of its own smartphones, hit a new low today, as the Finnish com…
Appeals Court Kills Universal’s Lawsuit Over Re-Selling Promo CDs
An appeals court confirmed today that consumers have a right to re-sell promotional CDs, which could have implications for other copyrighted…
Mobile Content Bits: Qualcomm FLO TV Numbers; Shazam; Gowalla
— FLO TV: Qualcomm’s mobile TV service, it turns out, only had around 1 million sign-ups since launching in March, 2007, according to CEO P…
Yahoo Music’s Bronikowski Jumps To AOL
With another wave of layoffs apparently about to hit Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Jeff Bronikowski is leaving his post after just 8 months as the hea…
Universal Music Promotes Rob Wells To Head Global Digital Business
With digital becoming a bigger part of Universal Music Group’s revenues in all parts of the world, the company is promoting Rob Wells to pre…
Univision, Vevo Strike Content Pact
Vevo is looking to widen its footprint in the Hispanic market by adding Univision to its content distribution and ad sales network. The musi…
eMusic Adds Universal Music Group To Its ‘Digital Club’
After years of trying, online music e-tailer eMusic has finally struck a partnership with Universal Music Group with a deal that will add 25…
Vevo Pulls UMG Music Videos From MTV Sites Over Ad Dispute
Vevo and MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) are having difficulty coming to an agreement over whether Vevo can sell advertising around the Viacom netw…
Vid-Biz: MTV-UMG, WatchMojo, Hollywood Clips
Today on the Net: MTV loses web videos from Universal Music after it was unable to strike a distribution deal with Vevo, WatchMojo tops 150 million video streams and Hollywood is trying to figure out how many clips to use when promoting new movies.
Vid-Biz: Veoh-UMG, Broadcast Retrans, KickApps HTML5
Today on the Net: Universal Music Group’s appeal of the Veoh copyright infringement verdict could be a preview of Viacom’s appeal of the YouTube verdict, broadcasters are lobbying for government to stay out of retransmission discussions and KickApps added support for HTML5 in its App Studio.
Games Overtake Music Sales For Subs-Happy Vivendi
French media conglomerate Vivendi (EPA: VIV) saw Q1 revenue up six percent to
Universal Music Releases An iPhone Game To Promote Artists, Sell Tracks
Universal Music Group was early to tap into the whole music gaming phenomenon by partnering with Tapulous to make iPhone apps for artists su…
Record Labels To ISPs: Please Save Us, By The Bundle
It’s been about three years since people first started talking about how bundling music services with internet access could realistically pr…
Vivendi Banks On Games As Mobile Music Goes Quiet
Video games are shining brighter as the jewel in Vivendi’s crown. The French conglomerate is expecting Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Blizzard to c…
UMG’s Wells: MySpace Music Not Dead Yet, Spotify’s Artist Equity Uncertain
Universal Music Group’s ever-honest international digital SVP Rob Wells gave a video interview to TheMusicVoid. The highlights…
Universal Music Succession Set: Grainge To Be CEO, Morris Stays As Chairman
The move was telegraphed last year and now the timing is set: Lucian Grainge, chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group International, will…
After a Month in Business, Vevo Already Tops in Music Video Traffic
Vevo started off with a bang, further confirming what we already knew — that people really like watching music videos online. So…
Vevo’s Caraeff: ‘We Have To Establish Credibility’
The glitzy opening at a trendy club in Tribeca — followed by a crashing site when millions of would-be music video viewers tried to sign on…
Why Vevo Will Fail
It makes sense that Vevo, the music video site that launched as a joint venture between Universal Music and Sony Music yesterday,…
Vevo Not Global Until 2010, Strains On First Day
Music labels’ YouTube-powered music video site Vevo may have had a glitzy launch in New York on Tuesday – but on Wednesday many who hit the…
Fair Play? A Million Spotify Streams Earned Gaga $167
How much money do artists really make from Spotify? According to Swedish paper Expressen, 2009’s standout breakthrough artist Lady Gaga and…
Guvera Gets UMG To Buy In To Its Dream Of Ad-Supported Music Downloads
Next year is shaping up to be an interesting one in terms of digital music. We’ll be able to see how much traction music video site Vevo ult…
Music Video Site Vevo To Launch Dec. 8
Vevo, the highly anticipated music video site, now has a launch date. It’s set to go live on the evening of Dec. 8, the site said a few minu…
Vivendi Profits Rise On Acti-Blizz Games Success: Call Of Duty ‘Biggest Entertainment Launch Ever’
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 grossed more than $300 million in sales in its first 24 hours just in the US and the UK, making…
Nokia Signs Exclusive Partnership With Rihanna To Bring Latest Album To Mobile
Nokia has partnered with Rihanna to promote the pop star’s latest album release “Rated R” through an impressive series of events on the phon…
Universal Music’s Grainge To Succeed Morris As CEO
Universal Music CEO Doug Morris will be succeeded by international chief Lucian Grainge next year, BusinessWeek reports. The Times Online al…
Google’s Music Search Will Be Wrapped Up With MySpace Branding
At the famed Capitol Records building in Hollywood, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) officially unveiled its OneBox music search service. First news tidb…
Industry Moves: Nokia’s Kohl To Head Up Ad Sales At Vevo
Former *Nokia* interactive ad sales vet David Kohl has joined Vevo, the music video site that labels like UMG and *Sony* are hoping will be…
Corrected: Earnings: Vivendi H1 Up On Games, Digital Music Growth
Fast growing digital music sales and the ongoing popularity of online multiplayer video games helped Vivendi (EPA: VIV) to a recession-beati…
Top Microsoft Zune Marketing Executive Leaves For Universal Music
Updated: Chris Stephenson, who has overseen global marketing for Microsoft’s Zune music player since its debut in 2006, is leaving Microsoft…
Universal Music Buys International Rights To Sinatra Albums
Universal Music has purchased the international rights to Frank Sinatra albums from the Sinatra Family and Warner Music, the Financial Times…
Judge Rules For Universal But Lets Redbox Antitrust Claim Stand
DVD rental biz Redbox took a big hit in its efforts to sue several Universal Studios units over a policy withholding new releases from vendi…
Universal Allies With Digital Music Startup To Find New Talent (And Get Into Guitar Center)
Universal Music is linking up with another digital music distributor, albeit this time a less traditional one. The company said it had signe…
Broadband Content Bits: Ashes VOD, Virgin Picturebox, PVR Stats
— Five Cricket VOD: Five’s highlights from this summer’s Ashes Test series will be shown online via its Demand Five VOD platform — and the…
Singapore’s SingTel Launches Mobile Music Service
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Tap Tap Revenge Goes Gaga for Universal Music
iPhone-owning (s aapl) fans of Lady Gaga, rejoice: Today a new version of Tap Tap Revenge, Tapulous‘ iPhone rhythm game phenomenon, hits…
Tapulous Signs Deal With Universal Music To Make Games
Tapulous, the mobile game company known for its popular iPhone game, Tap Tap Revenge, has signed a deal with Universal Music Group, to make…
Interview: Google’s David Eun: ‘We’re Monetizing More Than Anyone Else Is Making’
Others at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have more technologically complicated jobs, but David Eun, has one of the most difficult as VP of strategic pa…
RealNetworks Claims Antitrust; Veoh’s Investors Off the Hook
RealNetworks (s RNWK) yesterday threw a twist into its ongoing litigation over copyright violations by accusing movie studios of violating antitrust law.…
Mobile Content Bits: NBA On iPhone; Google Stars; Clearwire In Atlanta; iPhone 3.0 Rules
— NBA, SPIN, UMG Go iPhone: The NBA is launching an iPhone app for the 2009 playoffs, SPIN Magazine is launching SPIN Earth on the iPhone t…
YouTube Concedes to Music Industry With Off-Site Vevo Hub for UMG
Universal Music Group and YouTube formally announced today Vevo, their expected music video web venture. Details about how the site will be…
Reports: YouTube, Universal Teaming Up On New Music-Video Site
Sources are telling the WSJ and CNET that YouTube and Universal Music Group (UMG) are in late stage talks to launch a music video site tenta…
To Hold onto Music Content, YouTube May Ditch Long-Held Hub Strategy
YouTube (s GOOG) and Universal Music Group (s VIV) are in talks to create a music video site called “Vevo,” according to…
Imeem's New Challenge
Can music-oriented social-networking site Imeem get consumers to pay to get music on their cell phones that they could otherwise listen to f…
Universal Music Uses Kyte To Kick-Off iPhone Blitz; Five Artists Launch Apps
Kyte, the San Francisco-based company that enables people to stream video directly from their phones to the web, has identified a new revenu…
UMG-Sony Music JV Total Music Shuts Down
Two-year old Total Music has closed up shop, Billboard.biz reports TechCrunch confirmed. The causes? Billboard.biz, citing multiple “directl…
UMG-Sony Music JV Total Music Shuts Down
Two-year old Total Music has closed up shop, Billboard.biz reports TechCrunch confirmed. The causes? Billboard.biz, citing multiple “directl…
Sony Ericsson And Universal Music Publishing In Deal To Promote Emerging Acts
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has struck a deal with Universal Music Publishing to allow the publisher
Universal Music Artists To Stream Video To Fans Using Kyte
After seeing success with artists, such as Pussycat Dolls, Soulja Boy Tell Em and All American Rejects, Universal Music Group said it is des…
Will Mobile Video Kill the Rock Star? Yes.
I’m old. I accept that. And being old means there are some things that I just don’t understand. Like why anyone would…
Industry Moves: Universal Music’s Adam Flick Out, Thumbplay’s Mitch Rotter In As Marketing Head
Adam Flick, VP of marketing at Universal Music Group Distribution, has left the company to pursue other opportunities, a spokesman confirmed…
Carriers Find New Ways To Wall Off Content, This Time Using The Memory Card
Carriers have found a new way of dangling content in front of consumers, but with all the same strings attached as the original “walled gard…
Universal Says Mobile Is Nearly Half Of Its Digital Business; Amazon’s Biggest 3rd Party Is Android
A few interesting tidbits surfaced during an interview between Rio Caraeff, EVP of Universal Music Group’s eLabs, and CNet, that implies tha…
@ CES: Moms Part Of Early Adopters For Nokia’s Comes With Music Service
Early results from Nokia’s Comes With Music service are showing that one of the more surprising demographics that are adopting the service a…
How The Big Mobile Stories Of 2008 Will Play Out In The New Year
This year was somewhat an anomaly for the wireless industry. A lot of things got done: the impossible of mergers closed; new phones launched…
Vid-Biz: UMG, YouTube, Apple Sued
Universal Music Making “Tens of Millions” from YouTube; between YouTube and other streaming sites, company has gone from making nothing on music…
Vid-Biz: Magnify.net, AT&T, Jathia
Magnify.net Raises $750K; Innovation Ventures led this Series A1 round for the video publishing company. (Silicon Alley Insider) AT&T’s Viral Series Not…
Earnings: UMG Digital Sales Up 33 Percent, New Streams Offset Dropoff In CD Sales
Universal Music Group predicted a turnaround, and maybe it’s coming to pass… UMG posted
Mobile Content Bits: Nokia’s Big Traffic Plans; Zed Ringtones On Alltel; Sega Mobile; Mobile Billing
— Nokia (NYSE: NOK) launches traffic program: Nokia has launched a public pilot program out of its Silicon Valley-based research center to…
Thumbplay Launches Full-Track Music Store
Thumbplay has launched a full-track music store for mobile phones with a catalog of 1.5 million songs. With DRM-free tracks from Universal,…
Dell To Preload Universal Music Tunes on PCs
[qi:004] UPDATED: Dell Computer today announced that it will preload music from Universal Music Group into special music folders on the computers…
Vid-Biz: Brightcove, Spike TV, Distribution
Brightcove Launches New Version of Its Video Platform; Brightcove 3 features new workflow, player framework, media APIs and delivery functionality. (Brightcove) Worldwide…
UMG CEO: Piracy Will Be Solved By Technology, Not People; Timing on Hulu-Like Music Video Site
Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris can never be accused of being shy, or, putting his foot in, oh well…in an extensive interview with B…
UMG CEO: Piracy Will Be Solved By Technology, Not People; Timing on Hulu-Like Music Video Site
Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris can never be accused of being shy, or, putting his foot in, oh well…in an extensive interview with B…
Universal Music Group Joins Dada; Promoting Latin Artists On Spanish-Language Flycell
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YouTube Popularity Spurs UMG To Consider ‘Hulu For Music’ Site: Report
YouTube has proven to be a powerful promotional vehicle and revenue generator for Universal Music Group, as it serves to connect the music l…
Blow to YouTube? UMG Wants Hub for Its Music Videos
YouTube is very good at teaching lessons to media companies. So good, that one after another they have left the site (or,…
Unlimited Music Service Battle Heats Up; Vodafone Launches In Australia
The battle and gamble over unlimited music services has arrived. Once Nokia (NYSE: NOK) came out of the gate last December with its Comes Wi…
Sony Ericsson’s Unlimited Music Service May Come Next Week
More details are emerging about Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson’s (NSDQ: ERIC) unlimited music service, which sounds a lot like Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK…
Vivendi CEO Sees Resurgence of Music Industry; UMG “Next Surprise for Our Investors”
Hope springs eternal in music, and it seems, in the music industry as well. Jean Bernard Levy, the CEO of Vivendi (EPA: VIV) (which owns the…
Interview: MocoSpace CEO Justin Siegel: “We’ll Generate Millions Of Dollars In Ad Revenue This Year”
In 2013, more than 140 million subscribers will be part of a mobile social network, and that they will generate $410 million from subscripti…
Allman Brothers Sue Universal Music For $13M in Unpaid Digital Royalties
Members of The Allman Brothers Band have sued Universal Music-owned UMG Recordings for about $13 million, over royalties from compact discs…
Thumbplay Partners With Warner Music To Mark Its Fourth Music Label Deal
Thumbplay confirmed today it has signed a deal with Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) to add content from artists such as Kid Rock and Missy El…
Mobile Content Bits: Thumplay-Jay-Z; Sony Ericsson-GlobalFun; IHT.com Launches iPhone Version
— Thumbplay offering UMG mobile content: Thumbplay has agreed to a deal with Universal Music Group (UMG) which will see the mobile content…
Nokia’s Comes With Music Deal: EMI May Come On Board Before Service Goes Live
As Nokia Corp (NYSE: NOK). inches toward launching its
Tero Ojanpera: Nokia’s Accidental Media Mogul
In the last few years, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has been steadily repositioning itself from hardware manufacturer to
@ London Calling: Bundled Music Services “Commoditizing” Music?
At the London Calling music conference on Thursday, there was little doubt among the panel assembled to discuss the value of music on mobile…
Last.fm Finally Gets Major-Label Buy-In For Music Vids, UMG Signs On
Thirteen months after it announced its intention to create an MTV-beating service to offer the “long tail” of music videos, Last.fm has stru…
Mobile Content Bits: Skweezer Ads; UMG; Cirque de Soleil: Smartphone Satisfaction
— Skweezer has launched a new ad service. Skweezer Ads is an online advertising service that puts both desktop and mobile ads in a single a…
Discovery Invests in Sassa’s Web Publishing Firm Uber.com; UMG Other Investor
Last we knew, Scott Sassa, the former CEO of Friendster, had left his EIR position at Kleiner Perkins and taken over as the CEO of an obscur…
Apple Needs More Mobile Music; UMG Demanding Nokia-style Comes With Music Deal?
Have the music labels found a way to get Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to cave on some of their age-old requests as well as an interesting new one? The…
Nokia’s Schimel On Comes With Music: ‘Looking Out For Everyone’s Interests…Including Our Own’
With all the talk that they
Music Community Site Mog Gets $2.8 Strategic Investment From UMG, Sony BMG, And Angels
Mog, the Berkeley, CA-based music community site, has taken a $2.8 million strategic investment from Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, as wel…
Nokia’s “Comes With Music,” Comes With A High Price
As Nokia (NYSE: NOK) prepares to launch one of the more innovative ways to sell music on a mobile phone — by including free and unlimited d…
Nokia Paying Universal Music $35 Per User For Comes With Music?
More unconfirmed rumors as to how much Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is paying Universal Music Group for its music to be a part of Nokia’s “Comes With M…
Island Def Jam Launches WAP Site
The Island Def Jam music group has continued its advance into mobile content and launched a mobile portal at idjmobile.com, available to any…
@ CTIA: Billboard Mobile: Nokia Discusses Upcoming ‘Comes With Music’ Service
In the morning keynote at Billboard’s Mobile Entertainment Live the day before CTIA, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Tero Ojanpera, EVP of entertainment a…
Thumbplay Partners With Sony BMG For Mobile Content
New York-based Thumbplay said it now has distribution agreements with three of the top four record labels with today’s addition of Sony (NYS…
@ MWC: Omnifone Does Unlimited Music Access With LG, Universal Gives Tunes
More detail on yesterday’s preview. Universal Music Group has licensed its tunes to Omnifone’s new out-of-the-box all-you-can-eat download s…
Qtrax Loses Tracks
In the how-not-to-launch-a-business category we have Qtrax, an ad-supported peer-to-peer music download network that had supposedly signed deals with all four major…
Nokia To Share "Comes With Music" Revenue With Operators
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will share revenue from Comes with Music service with operators that are cooperative, reports Bloomberg. “In those cases w…
Mobile Services To Help Nokia Take On US Market
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wants to re-take its lead in the US market, and mobile telephone services are at the heart of its strategy to boost its sh…
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When Nokia (NYSE: NOK) announced its one-year free music offer
Sony Ericsson Plans For Mobile Music Store In Q208; Signs 4 Major Labels
*Sony Ericsson* has announced plans to launch a mobile (and online) music store in the second quarter of 2008 in a bid to counter moves by N…
@ CTIA: Billboard: Instant Gratification Of Mobile Music Deserves Premium Price, Universal Says
How do you justify the high price of over-the-air mobile music downloads? The instant gratification they deliver to consumers, Universal Mus…
Updated: Verizon Drops Marley Ringtones, Then Reinstates Again
Updated: Seems like the decision has been reversed: Reuters reports again that a Verizon Wireless spokeswoman said it will now be putting al…
UMG And Ringboxx Offer Home Ringtones
Home Phone Tunes has launched Ringboxx, a $60 device that lets you assign music and audio content to calls coming in on your landline. Unive…
Music In Asia: The Double-Edged Sword
Music in Asia is a blessing and a bane to the beleaguered music industry: Asian markets have been some of the most lucrative for the digital…
Omniphone Launches All-You-Can-Eat Subscription Service
We covered this a few days ago, but it has now happened…British company Omniphone has launched a mobile music service dubbed MusicStation…
Universal Music Group Extends International D2C Push
Universal Music Group (UMG) and Germany’s net mobile AG (net-m) have expanded their existing partnership in Germany to cover the rest of Eur…
UMG Promotes Caraeff To EVP of eLabs
Universal Music Group has promoted Rio Caraeff — formerly Vice President & General Manager of Universal Music Mobile — to Executive Vice…
Telenor & Vodacom To Launch All-You-Can-Eat Mobile Music Service; Omnifone Signs UMG
Norway’s Telenor ASA and South Africa’s Vodacom will launch among the first fat-rate mobile music all-you-can-eat download services….the t…
Universal Music U.K. Moves Music Catalog Off-Portal
Universal Music U.K. has sealed a deal with mobile music technology provider Groove Mobile to build and operate an off-portal mobile music s…
Universal Music Makes Catalog Available For Place-Based Entertainment Service
Universal Music Enterprises, a division of the Universal Music Group, has signed a multi-year, non-exclusive licensing agreement with Akoo ,…
Universal Music Signs On For Mobile Jukebox
Universal Music Enterprises has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Akoo for its m-Venue music service…this is for the entire UMG…
UMG On Aussie Prepaid Cards
UMG has signed a deal with Australian telco Gotalk to offer mobile music on prepaid cards. “The Universal Music Content Card is a prepaid ca…
Mobile Song Fees Should Drop — Universal Music CEO
Reuters is reporting that Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris has said that “cellphone providers need to cut the price of wireless song do…
McDonald’s Offers Mobile Content
McDonalds and Akoo have announced the launch of m-Venue, which “allows patrons to choose a wide variety of audio and video content from Sony…
CTIA: MTV, UMG Strike U.S. Mobile Video Deal
Don’t have all the details but as early as today, MTV Networks and Universal Music Group will announce a deal giving the programmer rights t…
Universal Music Tying Up with MTV For A Broad Mobile Partnership
So the sources from CTIA tell MocoNews…the official announcement is tomorrow. This will be broad mobile partnership with Universal Music,…
Jamba’s German Music Service
Jamba is promoting its music service at the radio show Internationalen Funkausstellung in Berlin (IFA), where it will have a “bluetooth colu…
UMG Launches US D2C Initiative
Universal Music Group has launched a D2C effort in the US based on premium SMS shortcodes. The service will offer direct access to music, ma…
Rapper Chamillionaire Is Just That, Through Mastertones
A nice tidbit from Universal Music Group… the song Ridin’ by the rapper Chamillionaire has sold a record 3 million ringtones (these are ma…
UMG Launches Mobile Music Store In Holland
Universal Music Group has launched a mobile music service in Holland called AnySong which “gives Dutch mobile subscribers access to over 250…
Jamba Music Goes Beta (German)
I’ve poorly translated the following from German, so if any German speakers notice any mistakes please let me know…
The Jamba (German arm…
Industry Moves: Universal Music Mobile Names New VP of Marketing
This happened some time ago, so most of you dealing with Universal Music might know about this, but was announced officially today: Universa…
Live Country Concert On Sprint Mobile Phones
Sprint has tied up with Universal Music Group to deliver a live country music concert to its subscribers, during a concert today from Nashvi…
Thumbplay In Pact With UMG To Distribute Mobile Music
Thumbplay, a direct-to-consumer mobile entertainment company, has signed up with music label Universal Music Group (UMG) to distribute the l…
Universal To Test Short Codes For Music
Updated: Our alert users remind us: Warner Music has been doing this for more than a year…
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Universal Music’s Stake in Amp’d: 19.9 Percent for $56 Million
That’s from Vivendi Universal’s latest annual report 10-K, filed last week with SEC…some more details: it has invested close to $56 millio…
Telus Launches Mobile Music
Canadian operator Telus has launched a mobile music service with tracks from EMI Music, SonyBMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Gro…
Universal Gives Mobile Content Rights To Buongiorno
Universal Studios has signed a deal with Buongiorno to put scenes from up to 75 “unforgettable blockbusters” on mobile phones. The rights wi…
