All Music Ally’s MIDEM coverage in one place
Now the dust has settled from MidemNet and MIDEM, we thought we’d round up all our coverage from the show in one post. Read on for a reminder of the news and liveblogs we posted from the conference.
NEWS
Pharrell Williams: Illegal downloading is ‘just taste-testing’
Spotify: 250k paying subscribers and a ‘double-digit million Euro’ ad business
Vodafone reveals 450k music subscription customers
Labels criticise unlimited downloads business models
YouTube now monetising 1bn+ videos a week through ads
Shazam now selling 300,000 track downloads a day
Ted Mico: ‘Great mobile apps are like babies…’
Gorillaz manager criticises Pharrell Williams’ file-sharing views
Spotify closing in on 100m user playlists
Havas boss slams ad-supported music models
Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien speaks to the industry
WMG goes cold on startup equity stakes
24-7 reveals record download volumes for 2009
Music Matters reveals music survey data
MySpace teams up with SoundExchange to find missing bands
we7 to launch subscription music services
Buy the album, get the Rock Band downloads free?
Universal Music Publishing Group launching own Vevo channel
Hal Ritson: ‘People are interested in the artists, not somebody from the marketing department…’
Tapulous to port Tap Tap Revenge to non-iPhone platforms
Getty Images boss: ‘Don’t stand in the way of technology’
Terry McBride talks digital valets
Pete Wentz talks social media
Soundcloud teams up with Hype Machine
Ted Cohen hails ‘music as a service’
Bruce Houghton on music hype filters
Ralph Simon on mobile music monetisation
Omnifone strikes HP deal for MusicStation
What can the music industry learn from Farmville?
How did Coca-Cola choose its World Cup song?
Nokia talks branding and music
Harvey Goldsmith on monetising music
LIVEBLOGS
Hal Ritson / Amanda Palmer panel
Pharrell Williams interview
Labels and digital services panel
Owen Van Natta of MySpace interview
Pete Wentz and Ning panel
MidemNet Lab Pitch Session
Mobile apps and music panel
David Jones of Havas Worldwide interview
Getty Images / Sulake panel
Spotify / YouTube panel
Music and games panel
Nokia / Coca-Cola / Carhartt talk music and branding
Converse and Pepsi talk music marketing
Music managers panel
Who Owns The Consumer? panel
Cult Of The Amateur’s Andrew Keen interview
David Renzer of UMPG interview
VIDEOS
Amanda Palmer does Creep, with ukulele and sock puppet
