Facebook has implemented a “listen” button on artists’ fan pages that lets users instantly stream songs from an artist’s catalog. The button, which sits between options to Like and message the page below an artist’s cover photo, plays music using … Continue reading →
Spotify’s storming of the U.S. market last year has seen the company rack up a total of 10 million active users of its music streaming services. It is projected to have revenues of $889 million this year, up 160 percent on 2011. But with that growth also comes increasing net losses, which in 2011 doubled to the tune of around $60 million.
Daniel Ek, CEO of the music streaming company, says in a candid interview with the Swedish financial paper Dagens Industri (translation here) that the question of when Spotify will show a profit is currently irrelevant. “Our focus is entirely on growth,” he told the publication. “That is priority one, two, three, four and five.”
Music intelligence startup Echo Nest, which you might know better as the company powering Spotify Radio and Vevo’s recommendations, is announcing two new partnerships today which will give developers access to more data to build their apps with. The company is teaming up with JamBase, which provides concerts listings and tour schedules, and SongMeanings, which you’ve surely come across while Googling to find out what the eff that guy is actually singing about.
Social media software company FanRx today added an option for artists to embed their songs from Spotify on Facebook tab applications using the company’s free Facebook Page Builder. This feature is possible as a result of the new Spotify “play … Continue reading →
One would guess that the big Yahoo layoff-reorganization includes a culling of some the company’s weaker properties — and yes, we’re hearing today that this includes Music and possibly Movies, popular sites that don’t monetize well.
Word has been leaking out since last week, when Digital Music News wrote a well-sourced article that didn’t make the situation sound good. “Will there be a music-dot-yahoo-dot-com?,” it quoted one person as saying. “Yes. But will it be integral to the future success to Yahoo? No. Has the traffic been good? No. Has this content been consistently interesting to advertisers? No.”
On the heels of a payout from the owners of P2P filesharing site Limewire, another claim finally settled for Merlin, the group that represents independent music labels in licensing negotiations and legal actions: the group says that Sirius Satellite Radio has settled for $1.6 million in a copyright infringement suit brought against Sirius by the agency.
The claim concerned Sirius’ Stiletto recording device, and was years in coming: Sirius had settled similar claims brought by the major record labels in 2007 and 2008.
If you do a lot of running or jogging, then you probably find your iPhone in your pocket while you listen to your favorite motivational music. Unless you have a meticulously designed playlist, chances are you’ll run into a song or an artist that you don’t immediately recognize. Instead of pulling your phone out of [...]
Controlling your Music app from the Springboard has been done before by the jailbreak community, but I guess the developer of PodControl felt they needed to put their own spin on the formula. PodControl is a simple jailbreak tweak that places three buttons on your Home screen. The buttons consist of Next, Play/Pause, and Previous, [...]
As most of you know, Pandora is a free streaming service that allows you to listen to an unlimited amount of music, as long as you don’t mind dealing with ads and a few other caveats. Unless you’re jailbroken that is. Enter Pandora Downloader, a new Cydia tweak that removes many of those caveats and [...]
ReverbNation, which provides online tools for artists and music venues to connect with fans, today introduces an update to its Facebook ad platform so artists can understand how their campaigns perform compared to others in similar genres. Promote It is … Continue reading →
