New Music Business Briefing: Live Nation’s New Ticket Moves, Crowley Upped At Koch, Lennon On iTunes & Much More.
>>> LIve Nation now offers fans a widget and other web tools to find concerts and buy tickets directly from personal web pages. (press release, widgets) Is this part of. Continue reading
New Music Business Briefing: “But Daddy’s A Pirate…”, Universal Watermarking & Much More
>>> A new EU survey shows that while they know its illegal, young people had a plethora of ready excuses for illegal downloading including "everyone is doing it…even my parents". . Continue reading
New Music Business Briefing: Edison Invests In Sonicbids, Universal Grabs V2, WMG Pets Bulldog & More
>>> The Edison Venture Fund has made a substantial investment in popular online press kit service Sonicbids. >>> Universal’s buying spree continues with the purchase of V2 from Morgan Stanley.. Continue reading
How Rhapsody Will Handle DRM-Free
As announced last week, starting on 8/21 Rhapsody will sell select 256kps tracks from Universal at the same price as protected files—89 cents per song for Rhapsody subscribers and 99. Continue reading
Mercury Records Seeks Interns
Hypebot publishes all music industry related jobs and internships free. Please email your listings. Mercury Records is currently seeking A&R interns for the upcoming Fall 2007 semester. We are looking. Continue reading
A Dog Days Of Summer Reading List For The New Music Industry
>>> The 2007 Digital Music Survey, a UK study by Entertainment Media Research showed that illegal downloads are at an all time high just as paid download growth is slowing and. Continue reading
New Music Business Briefing: Veoh Sues Universal, New Payola Charges & More
>>> Video sharing upstart VEOH has gone to court seeking protection against possible lawsuits from Universal and others. (DMW) >>> Latin music giant Univision has been hit with a second. Continue reading
Universal Launches Broad DRM Free Experiment Without iTunes. Rhapsody Provides Details.
We’ve been hearing hints of this for months and now Its all over the press that Universal is about to launch a broad DRM free experiment that will not include. Continue reading
