New Music Business Briefing: EU Clears Universal BMG, Royalty Share Gets Idea, Sprint Streams Pandora & More
>>> The EU has cleared Universal’s purchase of BMG Publishing. Deal includes sell off of Zomba and other catalogs.
>>> Digital music solution and royalty tracking provider RoyaltyShare has acquired IDEA an LA firm focused on preparation and delivery of tracks for digital distribution.
>>> WIRED looks at Ogg Vorbis an open source digital platform without and of the licensing issues of mp3 and some other formats.
>>> Sprint will offer Pandora streaming radio.
>>> Tribute bands are becoming big business.
>>> Digital distributor IODA has added large Australian indie SHOCK to it’s label roster.
>>> Fan widget creator RockYou.com has expanded its offering with new deals with SNOCAP, Nettwerk Records, Pump Audio and FlipTrack. (press release)
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Greetings Hypebot,
RockYou is cool, and it’s great you now use legal music tracks with those slide shows. Just wanted to add, though, that http://www.sonific.com has been doing this (i.e. music widgets for social media) for almost a year, already, and is now supplying music widgets to over 42 platforms on the web, including WordPress, Google, Blogger, Typepad, Slideroll, Friendster, Freewebs, Piczo, SmugMug and many others, see http://sonific.com/home/supported_sites. AS to size of catalog, and depth, we are just adding another 100.000 tracks of great indie repertoire (includes tracks from V2 Records, Nettwerk, Ninja Tunes, and many strong catalogs supplied by IODA, IRIS, DRA etc) so…. there is a lot happenong in this space. Widgets will be a major channel of promotion / marketing / distribution for the music industry, very soon, and Sonific will supply the tools ;).
Watch for a major announcement by Sonific in about 2 weeks…