Friday’s Music Briefing: MySpace Music, Pandora, EconCeleb & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES:
- Cracks In UK ISP Crackdown Surface
- EU-5 Mobile Music To Hit $1.4B By 2012
- 2nd Q Results: UMG Does Better Than Most
- Win 2 Tickets To Bandwidth ’08 Conference
> MySpace Music will launch in September. MySpace members can listen to free streaming music and purchase song downloads, ringtones, T-shirts and tickets. (Fortune) Better late than never…or is it?
> A look at the new iLike advertising sidebar. (Ad Supported Music Central)
> Our friend on the ground Maths takes a first look at Apple’s first ever store in China and what it means. (Music 2.0)
> Pandora is taking off as an iPhone app. "As of July 14, the company had registered 180,000 new users, and more than 200,000 new stations had been created on the iPhone. Pandora executives claim that the company has attracted a new iPhone listener every two seconds since the launch, with most users listening for close to an hour per day." (AdWeek) Greg Rollett shows how Pandora could beat broadcast radio in the long term in part because they are capturing listener info. (Rollett) Why pay for satellite radio?
> Coverage of the EconCeleb conference in Hollywood where internet celebs and often music took the center stage. (paidContent)
> R.I.P. Artie Traum (more) He was a talented, gentle and very smart member of the artist community.
Thanks for the link Bruce. Now that I have an iPhone fully operational, I have used Pandora on every drive in the morning this week without a hiccup. The only problems arise when someone calls in but then the service starts right where it left off.
It makes radio run again!
Myspace is not, and never will be, a sales platform. Another “me-too” offering is not the way forward, and blabbing on about visitor numbers or myspace subscribers misses the point – myspace is a place to review music, not buy it.
These same arguments came up prior to SnoCap’s Mystore – haven’t we learned?