Official Charts Company Adds Streaming Music But Still Not Ready For YouTube Streams
The UK's Official Charts Company is adding music streams to its accounting system for what's popular. For charting purposes they're valuing 100 streams as the equivalent of one single sold,. Continue reading
The Week In Music Commentary
YouTube's Ultimatum and The Economic Survival Of Musicians YouTube's Attack On Indies Gets Strong Response From WIN,But It's Time For Artists To Take Action POLL: Would You Pay For Ad. Continue reading
REWIND: The New Music Industry’s Week In Review
Beats Banned From World Cup T-Mobile Thumbs Nose At Net Neutrality and FCC with "Music Freedom" Plan UnRadio: Rhapsody Unwraps New Pandora Meets Spotify + Shazam Service YouTube To Gross. Continue reading
Turn Your YouTube Videos Into Online Billboards
By Mike Baldo, Senior Account Manager, Video Services for The Orchard. Have a new album or film coming out soon? Of course you do! But do your fans know about. Continue reading
VOTE: Would You Pay For Ad Free YouTube?
As the launch of YouTube's paid subscription music service nears and the battle between Google and independent labels rages on, we ask the question: Would You Pay For Ad Free. Continue reading
YouTube’s Ultimatum and The Economic Survival Of Musicians
By copyright and intellectual property attorney Wallace E. J. Collins III, Esq.. YouTube announced that in a matter of days it may begin blocking the videos of some independent record. Continue reading
YouTube’s Attack On Indies Gets Strong Response From WIN, But It’s Time For Artists To Take Action
Yesterday the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN), which acts as a representative for indie musicians, released a new statement regarding YouTube's poor faith bargaining and threats to pull indie videos from. Continue reading
Details Emerge Of Major Label Deals with YouTube and How They’ll Hurt Artists
Thanks to the escalating war of words between the independent music community and Google over royalties to be paid by their pending YouTube subscription music service, we're also getting some. Continue reading
Vevo Says They’ll Play Many Independent Music Videos Deleted By YouTube
YouTube says they're going to start pulling down videos from indie artists and labels refusing to sign on to its yet-to-launch paid streaming music service. But Vevo, the largest single. Continue reading
YouTube To Gross $7.2 Billion This Year, But Indie Labels Are Asking Too Much…
With the launch of YouTube's paid subscription music service appearing to be just days away, and Google's battle with the independent music sector heating up, it seems like the appropriate. Continue reading
