Ministry of Sound is getting into livestreaming in a significant way, launching a series called Live From The Club that will use five fixed cameras to stream DJ sets from […]
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Ministry of Sound has ‘recently’ signed a deal with Spotify
Ministry of Sound may have settled its copyright infringement lawsuit with Spotify, but the music group has still been one of the more high-profile sceptics on the streaming service, declining […]
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Sandbox 109 – #MUSICMARKETING
Lead: Twitter has turned the hashtag into a powerful marketing tool and now Facebook, Instagram and even Amazon are piling on. We look at how hashtags can be best used, where they can go disastrously wrong and why they will – despite Twitter saying it is pushing them to the background – remain an essential part of the music marketer’s arsenal for years to come.
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Spotify and Ministry of Sound settle playlists lawsuit
Bad news if you were looking forward to the British High Court ruling on the thorny issue of whether compilations qualify for copyright protection
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Ministry of Sound renews its deal with MCN Base79
Dance brand Ministry of Sound was early onto YouTube, striking a deal with multi-channel network Base79 back in 2009.
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Music manager Jazz Summers explains his ‘big problem’ with Spotify
One of last year’s breakout acts in the UK, London Grammar, are signed to Ministry of Sound, so their absence from Spotify is hardly a surprise
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Live from Music 4.5: Vevo, Base79, Ministry of Sound and more (#m4pt5)
Music Ally is at the Music 4.5: The Rise of Video conference in London today: you can read our previous posts on YouTube talking music video, and presentations from Nielsen, UMG and She Makes War.
The second session of the event saw presentations from Vevo, multi-channel network Base79, digital service CueSongs and Ministry of Sound, before a panel session featuring all of them.
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Chewing over Ministry of Sound’s Spotify playlists lawsuit
At the Copyright & Technology conference, one panel session spent most of its time chewing over the implications of Ministry of Sound’s decision.
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Music Ally Report 327 – Good Comp, Bad Comp
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.
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Ministry of Sound sues Spotify in copyright infringement case
After a testing few months for Spotify with criticism from artists, the streaming music service has a new foe: dance brand Ministry of Sound.
The company is suing Spotify for copyright infringement, claiming that the service has refused to remove user playlists that mirror Ministry of Sound compilation albums, including some that use the brand’s name in their titles.
“It’s been incredibly frustrating: we think it’s been very clear what we’re arguing, but there has been a brick wall from Spotify,” CEO Lohan Presencer tells The Guardian.
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Ministry of Sound launches a Samsung Smart TV app
Ministry of Sound is launching an app for Samsung’s Smart TV range, offering a mixture of music videos, interviews with artists and DJs, and behind-the-scenes footage from its London venue.
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Sandbox Issue 86 – Brands + live + digital: new beginnings
Lead: a decade ago, live music and digital marketing amounted to free downloads or (and this is really dating things) free ringtones. Thankfully things have moved on from then and such an elementary approach no longer cuts it.
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