HAPPY MIDEM!
Having got to Cannes yesterday, the Music Ally team is fanning out across MidemNet with a mixture of meetings and writing – and don’t forget our stand, of course, if you’re here too, and would like to come and say hi. The Music Ally Blog is home to our coverage of MidemNet this weekend, with news stories from the key conference sessions. We’ve also been liveblogging for the official Midem(Net) Blog, so those links are included here too. Enjoy…
NEWS
- Spotify: 250k paying users and a double-digit million Euros ad business
- Pharrell Williams: Illegal downloading is ‘just taste-testing’
- we7 to launch subscription service next week
- Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien speaks to the industry
- Labels criticise unlimited downloads business model
- WMG goes cold on unlimited downloads scheme
- MySpace teams with SoundExchange to find missing bands
- Hal Ritson: ‘People are interested in the artists, not somebody from the marketing department…’
- MySpace teams with SoundExchange to find missing bands
- Pete Wentz talks social media at MidemNet
- Music Matters reveals consumer survey data
LIVEBLOGS
- Below you can find our live as-it-happened coverage from today’s conference. New Models at Work panel with Amanda Palmer and Hal Ritson
- Pharrell Williams keynote interview
- Labels & Digital Services panel with Spotify, we7 and labels
- MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta keynote interview
- Pete Wentz & Ning on bands and social networks
MONETISING MUSIC: WHAT’S WORKING?
- The MidemNet Board have been giving their views on the future for the industry, in five-minute chunks: Ted Cohen
- Terry McBride
- Bruce Houghton
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