Lead: eight years after the launch of YouTube, we look at the recent rapid growth of multi-channel networks and consider what they mean for the music business. On the one hand, they promise tighter curation...
May 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally
Google+ is working its way into all of Google's services, YouTube included. Now the company is encouraging YouTube creators to connect their channels with their Google+ pages.
May 20th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
YouTube multi-channel networks (MCNs) come in many shapes and strategies when it comes to music. Some, like Maker Studios, see music as one of several "core verticals", while others, like Indmusic, see...
May 20th, 2013 by Music Ally
Happy birthday to you, YouTube. Given its scale now, it's strange to think it's only eight years since the video site launched in May 2005.
May 16th, 2013 by Rob MacAllister
We’re pretty excited about Spotify’s latest update in which can see how many times a track has been streamed worldwide. Only last week we called for a wider understanding of streaming numbers in our...
May 16th, 2013 by Music Ally
YouTube launched the ability for its creators to stream live video on their channels last year, but the rollout has been a careful one, restricted to a relatively small range of partners.
May 13th, 2013 by Music Ally
Digital music service Beatrobo has been around for a while on the web: we first wrote about it in December 2011 as an "asynchronous Turntable.fm" with "rooms full of avatars based on Facebook friends,...
May 10th, 2013 by Music Ally
YouTube has launched its first tier of subscription-based video channels, as predicted earlier in the month.
May 10th, 2013 by Music Ally
Here's a digital milestone of sorts: artists can now earn Gold and Platinum awards in the US based on on-demand streams and video views of their songs, as well as sales.
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