May 2nd, 2013 by Music Ally

Nielsen has published its latest research into the US entertainment market, including music.

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April 30th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Mashable is blunt with its assessment of the Twitter #music app's slide down the App Store charts: "It's starting to look like Twitter's music app may be more like Poke than Vine

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April 12th, 2013 by Music Ally

We Are Hunted

In probably the worst-kept music industry secret of the year, music discovery site We Are Hunted has finally confirmed it has been acquired by Twitter. The news was announced, naturally, via a tweet from...

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March 18th, 2013 by Music Ally

Music Gateway

We've seen a number of B2B social networking sites for the music industry launch over the last six or seven years. Without exception, they've tanked.

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February 28th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Pandora is introducing a 40-hour monthly cap on free mobile listening, although it says the change will affect less than 4% of its monthly active listeners (meaning around 2.6m people out of 65.5m active...

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February 5th, 2013 by Music Ally

Vevo has a new distribution partner, and it's a biggie: Disney. The two companies are teaming up to launch "premier family-friendly music and video experiences" across web, mobile/tablet and connected...

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January 28th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Nicholas Lovell is the founder of Gamesbrief, a blog dedicated to the business of games, as well as the author of a growing list of books about making money in the games industry and other digital media....

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January 11th, 2013 by Music Ally

Sbrkt SoundCloud

Now music marketer Darren Hemmings has identified what looks like a big boost for follower numbers for artists since the changes.

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January 4th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Facebook has announced a change in the way its Open Graph works for partner apps publishing stories to the social network, and it could be good news for music companies.

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