Tag: ITunes Store

The iPod Turns 15: Watch Steve Job’s 2001 Announcement + The First iPod Commercial

The iPod turns 15 years old this week. First announced on October 23, 2001, the device and later it's closed link to Apple's iTunes download store changed the music industry. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 10/24/2016 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Digital rights management, IPad, IPhone, IPod, IPod Nano, IPod Touch, iTunes, ITunes Store, music industry

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AM NEWS BRIEF: iTunes Match Ups Limit To 100K • Adele 1.1M Week 2 • SFX Shakeup • Spotify’s Year In Music • More

MONDAY 12.7.2015 Music Business News From Around The Web Meaningless Upgrade: Apple takes control of more of your must library just as you stopped using it. Updated continuously under our More. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 12/07/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Alternative dance, App Store (iOS), Apple Inc., Apple TV, Chinese language, CLSA, Ebay, iTunes, ITunes Store, OS X

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SaaSing The Music Business [Ethan Kaplan]

What does the shift to a streaming music economy mean for the industry as a whole? As the business changes and SasS (Software as a Service) providers become the dominant. Continue reading

Guest Post on 07/16/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Apple Inc., Average revenue per user, Cashier, IPod, iTunes, ITunes Store, music industry, Nielsen SoundScan, Streaming media, Warner Bros. Records

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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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Here’s Why Taylor Swift Dropped Spotify: $4 Million From YouTube

Taylor Swift pulling her music off Spotify and most other streaming music services was one of the top music industry stories of 2014. Swift and label yanked her music after. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 01/05/2015 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (9)

Tags: Apple Inc., Billboard Magazine, Compact disc, ITunes Store, Rdio, Spotify, Streaming media, Taylor Swift, Vevo, YouTube

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Platformz Mobile Aims to Bridge the Gap for Indie Artists

According to Billboard, Indie music comprises 34.5% of the United States music industry market. It is notoriously an underserved sector – Platformz mobile app aims to change that. The app. Continue reading

Nia R Jones on 10/29/2014 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Billboard, Google, iTunes, ITunes Store, Mobile app, Soundcloud, Streaming media, Twitter

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Are You As Excited As Bono About Apple’s Plans For A New Music Format?

By Peter Getty. When Apple created the iTunes Store, offering for the first time a digital way to deliver individual tracks for just 99 cents, the music industry received a. Continue reading

Guest Post on 09/23/2014 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (4)

Tags: Apple, Bono, Emperor Norton, iTunes, ITunes Store, Neil Young, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Time

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Best Of 2013: How To Get More Views On YouTube

Guest post by Katonah Coster of Fame House Not surprisingly, artists and music brands have lately come to view YouTube network as one of the most critical pieces of their digital marketing strategies.. Continue reading

Guest Post on 12/30/2013 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: Audio description, Google, IPhone, iTunes, ITunes Store, music video, upload videos, YouTube

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How To Gift $20,000,000 In Music

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. If you pay by the month for music, your kith and kin might call you crazy behind your back. Isn’t that stuff free? On. Continue reading

Guest Post on 12/16/2013 in Apps, Mobile & SMS | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: Apple, Google Play, IOS, iTunes, ITunes Store, Rdio, Rhapsody, United States

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