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We reported earlier this week on YouTube’s plans to allow people to download videos to their mobile devices for offline viewing in the YouTube app. But how will this work, and what will it mean for the music rightsholders whose videos make up a significant chunk of viewing on Google’s service?
YouTube has been emailing partners with more details about how people will be able to “add to device” certain videos and playlists.
Nope, we’re not having you on. Rapper 2 Chainz really has launched his own cookery app, with social photography elements thrown in for good measure.
The free iPhone app is called 2 Chainz MealTime, and was released on Apple’s App Store tonight promising “fan sourced recipes at your fingertips”. The App Store listing explains further:
“Users can add cool frames and stickers on their food photos. Users can also share their original or remixed community curated featured dishes.”
We use the Ministry Of Sound/Spotify legal dispute as the starting point to consider the role and the future of streaming compilations and playlists.
Nielsen has traditionally provided its ratings and sales data to paying clients in the TV, film and music worlds among other industries. Now it’s reaching out to consumers too, with a new iOS app called Nielsen TOPTEN.
Based on the company’s data, it promises to give people “direct access to what’s hot in TV, movies, apps, products and more… your one-stop destination for what’s on everyone’s list”.
iTunes Radio will launch for US consumers on 18 September, when Apple’s iOS 7 software is officially released.
It’s not just Lady Gaga looking to deliver her new album through a mobile app. Dutch singer Caro Emerald’s latest album just got its own iPhone app too: The Shocking Miss Emerald.
Released by her label Grandmono Records, it offers a stream of the album, and adds lyrics, liner notes and images. The app costs £1.49, and the streaming is unlimited, with Grandmono promising that it will “use the app as a platform to upload more unique tracks in the near future”, with an exclusive version of Emerald’s ‘Excuse My French’ already available within it.
Apple unveiled two new iPhone models tonight at a press event in Cupertino: the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. They’ll go on sale on 20 September in nine countries, with the iOS 7 software rolling out to existing iPhone and iPad users two days before.
“In the past when we’ve announced a new iPhone, we’ve lowered the price of the current model. This year, we’re not doing that. The business has become so large that this year we’re replacing the iPhone 5 with not one, but two new designs,” said CEO Tim Cook at the event. “This allows us to serve even more customers.”
UK-based mobile music service Bloom.fm has been iPhone-only since its launch earlier this year.
Hypebot has run an interesting piece on the latest developments here and how companies like Line and WeChat are making a direct play into music with their offerings.
YouTube has extended the limit on video usage in third-party apps.
New data from comScore shows that Facebook users in the US spent anaverage of 914 minutes on the social network’s mobile site/app in July this year – an 80% increase year-on-year.
Research by uSwitch.com claims that a tenth of five-year-olds in the UK now own a mobile phone.
