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Social network advertising spending will reach over $850m in 2007.

Digital music distributor licenses catalogue to Last.fm for personalised radio service

56% of passengers would like to use their mobile phones and other devices in the underground network.

Some 35% of adult cell phone users are willing to accept incentive-based advertisements on their phones.

Bands can showcase their music on Yahoo’s website by uploading performance in Up Yours Contest

Premium mobile content in 2011: market worth $35bn ($7.4bn revenue share for content providers).

Social networks Feb-07: +11% traffic MoM. MySpace 80% market share, smaller ones growing. Buzznet +148.4% MoM; iMeem +145.7% MoM; MySpace 10% MoM.

Premium mobile content: $16.3bn market in 2006 ($4.2bn went to content providers).

Deal allowing artists to sell content directly to fans from their MySpace pages and other sites

MasterCard offers free MuchMusic downloads with new prepaid credit card

Spending on DRM software and hardware will reach more than $9bn by 2012. Total worldwide spending on DRM will reach just over $1bn by the end of 2007. As the value of digital content increases, DRM applications will also...

Launch of an artist controlled music download and ringtone distribution service