A survey of children and young adults in the UK has turned up some new – if not that surprising – views on filesharing and online piracy. YouGov talked to […]
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YouTube music contract leaks, revealing revenue splits and guarantees
The ongoing row between YouTube and some independent labels has led to an inevitable leak of the company’s draft contract – Billboard obtained one last week and published its report on […]
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Kobalt Music Group raises $140m, taking its total funding to $250m
Kobalt Music Group announced its latest funding round yesterday: $140m through its investment subsidiary Kobalt Capital. The round includes $25m from MSD Capital, the investment firm for tech mogul Michael […]
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Pandora’s May 2014 metrics: 77m listeners and 1.73bn listener hours
Pandora is stopping announcing its listening metrics every month from now on, although it’ll still provide numbers as part of its quarterly financial reports. The last set of stats was […]
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Streaming expected to surge, but PwC sees music downloads growth ahead too
PricewaterhouseCoopers is releasing its latest media and entertainment forecasts today, including its take on how streaming music and music downloads will grow over the next few years. The report predicts […]
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Report claims Facebook hashtags ‘do nothing to help additional exposure’
Should music artists be slapping #hashtags into all of their #facebook #posts now that they can?
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Apple gets AlgoTrim
Apple has acquired Swedish mobile data compression firm AlgoTrim according to reports.
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Dutch report suggests Pirate Bay blockade had ‘no lasting net impact’
David Hasselhoff doesn’t feature in the ‘Baywatch’ study published yesterday by a team of Dutch researchers.
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US Internet Policy Task Force report offers piracy proposals
Most of the headlines so far around a new report from US Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force have focused on its suggestion that Congress “enact legislation adopting the same range of penalties for criminal streaming of copyrighted works as now exists for criminal reproduction and distribution”
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SiriusXM reports $126m profit for Q2
US satellite-radio firm SiriusXM reported its latest financial results yesterday, with revenues up 12% year-on-year to $940m.
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SiriusXM reports $126m profit for Q2
US satellite-radio firm SiriusXM reported its latest financial results yesterday, with revenues up 12% year-on-year to $940m.
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Gigya report ranks social networks for their sharing popularity
Facebook accounts for 50% of content shared through social networks, according to a new report from social marketing firm Gigya.