April 10th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Lead: Music's relationship with gaming apps has been tentative at best, but there is a lot for the music business to learn from how such apps are marketed, how they regard free and engage in social sharing....

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February 8th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds is getting ready to launch his new album 'For Now I Am Winter', with a nifty promotion going live on his website yesterday.

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February 7th, 2013 by Music Ally

VEVO

The saga of whether music videos service Vevo will renew its distribution deal with YouTube hasn't come to an end yet, but current indications are that not only will the deal be renewed – it may involve...

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January 30th, 2013 by Music Ally

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YouTube has made a big push for original channels on its service over the last year, funding more than 160 of them itself.

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January 25th, 2013 by Music Ally

Twitter Vine

Twitter launched a brand new iPhone app last night called Vine, which helps people share six-second looping video clips with sound to the social network, as well as to Facebook.

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January 4th, 2013 by Music Ally

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YouTube has revealed a bit more about its strategy to put web videos on big-screen TVs.

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January 3rd, 2013 by Music Ally

Digital sales across the music, video and games grew by 11.4% to just over £1bn in 2012. The bad news: physical sales of CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs and boxed games fell by 17.6%. ERA claims that digital...

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January 3rd, 2013 by Music Ally

Digital Britain

Hot on the heels of yesterday's BPI music sales figures came more stats from the UK's Entertainment Retailers Association covering digital and physical sales of music, games and video for 2012.

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December 13th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Viddy has been one of the big success stories in the apps world, notching up more than 40m downloads on iOS. The app is regularly referred to as Instagram for video, in that it gets people to shoot short...

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