New Music Industry Briefing For Tuesday July 18, 2006

– The long tail of music niches extends as National Geographic launches an extensive World Music discovery and download section in conjunction with Calabash Music on it’s popular web site. (National Geographic)

– Marketers are exploring creative new ways to work with "ad free" satellite radio. (MediaPost)

– YouTube is now streaming 100 million videos daily. Last month 2.5 billion videos were watched on on the site. (BBC)

– Apple’s conference call discussing Q3 – 2006 financial results will begin at 2pm PT/5pm ET on Wednesday. (Apple)

R.I.P. – Long time Frank Sinatra pianist Bill Miller.