January 14th, 2013 by Music Ally

Unorthodox Jukebox

Spotify hasn't tended to announce many stats on individual artists or songs in its history, unsurprisingly seeing that as data best shared by its label partners.

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August 23rd, 2012 by Rob MacAllister

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Plan B’s album release of iLL Manors used multiple interesting digital marketing techniques so we decided to dive deeper to dissect the whole campaign and also speak to Jack Melhuish, director of marketing...

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April 26th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Our lead considers whether there is a long-term threat to the digital music market from exclusives. For example if one streaming service is favoured over others for exclusive releases and catalogue, what...

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April 20th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Sandbox caught up with five digital marketers within music to get their thoughts on the subject. They were Aaron Bogucki, senior digital manager, Polydor Records; David Emery, head of marketing, Beggars...

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March 14th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Artist Plan B is in the news this week, having delivered a hard-hitting speech on British youth at the TED conference last weekend, and releasing his new video Ill Manors on YouTube, which is based on...

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January 6th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Atlantic Records UK has been busy creating "new-fangled Google+ profiles" for some of its key artists, according to a tweet from the label's Roz Mansfield.

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December 22nd, 2011 by Music Ally

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We asked some leading UK record labels and music companies what they thought was their most successful or innovative digital campaign of 2011 and their responses make up this issue.

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September 21st, 2011 by Music Ally

Ed Sheeran

UK singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran continues to do some interesting stuff in digital. His latest move is to give away a free digital EP to his mailing list, Facebook fans and Twitter followers.

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June 23rd, 2011 by Music Ally

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Yesterday's Music 4.5 conference in London discussed 'the death of collective licensing', with one of the most interesting presentations coming from RjDj co-founder Michael Breidenbrucker, outlining the...

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