Thursday’s Music Brief: Pandora Ads, RIAA Delay, Sirius Increase & More
HYPEBOT FEATURES:
- Midem Attendance Slides 12%
- Indie Music Discovery Site Fuzz.com To Shutter
- Jogli Aims Straight For Project Playlist With 500M Songs & Widgets
- EMI's New Music Services Unit Takes Shape
- Midem Roundup & 2009 Dates
- Pandora is adding in stream audio ads again. (TechCrunch)
- Federal judge delays an RIAA case for a month to consider whether or not it should broadcast over the net. (Boston Globe)
- It's stock may be stuck close to an all time low of $2 but Warner Music Group still has to release its financial results for the first quarter which ended December 31, and it will do so on Thursday, February 5, 2009 with an earnings call that morning at 8:30 a.m. ET. To access the conference call dial 800-857-2625 or 210-234-6601. The passcode for the call is “Warner Music.”
- Music branding agency NonStop Riot gets funding. (press release)
Sirius XM plans to increase prices for subscribers with multiple accounts and charge for its online feed. It will keep its core rates unchanged, as a promised to close their merger, but the moves alongside recent program changes could anger subscribers. (Reuters)- How One 'No Name' Musician Used Free Music To Build A Following. (Mike Masnick on TechDirt)
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