Tag: IOS

Beatport’s New Shows Tab Now Powered By Bandsintown

Beatport has begun displaying Bandsintown-powered concert listings across the platform giving electronic music fans the ability to search and bookmark their favorite shows, and connect to ticket purchasing outlets directly. Continue reading

Nia R Jones on 04/03/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (4)

Tags: Android (operating system), bEATPORT, concert, Disc jockey, Electronic dance music, Electronic music, IOS, Online music store, SFX (magazine), Streaming media

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Why Competition In The Music Space Is Great And Fragmentation In The Music Space Is Dangerous

As you may have heard, Jay-Z bought himself a music streaming service, called Tidal, which is now being relaunched with lots of high profile musicians onboard — in fact as partial equity owners.

Guest Post on 04/02/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (4)

Tags: Apple Inc., Dr Dre, IOS, iTunes, Jimmy Iovine, Nine Inch Nails, Spotify, Streaming media, The New York Times, Trent Reznor

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Apple iTunes Relaunch Could Add 75 Million Paying Streaming Music Subscribers [SURVEY]

How strong a competitor will a new iTunes streaming music service embedded within Apple's popular iOS operating system be? Very strong, according to a survey of 1000 consumers.

Bruce Houghton on 04/01/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Antivirus software, App Store (iOS), Apple ID, Apple Inc., Application Store, IOS, IPhone, iTunes, Spotify, YouTube

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5 Ways Musicians Should Be Using Periscope

Have you heard about the latest social media trend? It’s called ‘live broadcasting,’ and while there are two companies dominating the marketplace, Periscope is emerging as the leader.

Guest Post on 03/31/2015 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (4)

Tags: Americans, Audience, Broadcasting, Facebook, IOS, social media, Streaming media, Television, Twitter, video

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Diddy Invests In Pleek Photo Messaging App

Social messaging apps of all varieties – text, photo, video and even music – are the current darlings of venture capitalists. If the app is a hit, it can grab. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/27/2015 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Android (operating system), App Store (iOS), Apple Inc., Ashton Kutcher, Bill Gates, Brad Silverberg, Business intelligence, IOS, Silicon Valley, Venture capital

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Ex Live Nation Labs, Warners Exec Ethan Kaplan Joins Gracenote As SVP Music

Unsurprisingly, it didn't take digital music veteran Ethan Kaplan long to land well after the breakup of Live Nation Labs. Today Gracenote announced he's getting a prime office in their executive. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/25/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: American Society of Composers, Artist, Authors and Publishers, Brooklyn, Hulu, Interscope Records, IOS, Jason Kilar, Rhett and Link, Warner Music Group, YouTube

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YouTube Challenger Vessel Launches With Better Pay For Creators – GET 1 YEAR FREE

YouTube is so popular that it was bound to attract competitors; and just-launched Vessel may have found the Google owned video giant's achilles heal – low payouts to creators. Along. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 03/24/2015 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Facebook, Google, Hulu, IOS, Jason Kilar, Netflix, Spotify, Streaming media, Subscription business model, YouTube

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Messaging App LINE Acquires MixRadio

Ultra popular Snapchat has been clear about its broad music ambitions. Now competitor LINE jumps into music with the acquisition of personalized online streaming music service MixRadio.

Bruce Houghton on 03/17/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Aspiro, IOS, Jay-Z, Microsoft, Pi Day, Shareholder, Spotify, Streaming media, United Kingdom, WiMP

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Pandora Holds Lead As Top Music Streaming Service In The U.S.

"The Infinite Dial 2015" report from Edison Research and Triton Digital took an in depth look at US music streaming revealing Pandora as the clear leader.

Nia R Jones on 03/12/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: Apple Inc., Eddy Cue, Edison Research, iHeartRadio, IOS, iTunes, Jimmy Iovine, List of online music databases, Spotify, Streaming media

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Apple Blames Internal Server Error For Widespread iTunes, App Store Outage

UPDATE: Apple blamed an internal server error for the widespread outage of its iTunes and App stores that impacted customers worldwide yesterday. The problems appear to have been fixed.

Nia R Jones on 03/12/2015 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: App Store (iOS), Apple Inc., Apple Store, Application Store, IBooks, ICloud, IOS, iTunes, ITunes Store, Mac App Store

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