Twitter’s head of music Bob Moczydlowsky is leaving the company, 17 months after joining from Topspin. “I’m ending my time at Twitter in a few weeks. I’ve loved every day […]
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Spotify’s merch partnership with ArtistLink gets unlinked
When Spotify first gave artists the option of promoting merchandise within its service earlier in 2014, the company’s chosen partner was D2C firm Topspin with its ArtistLink feature. However, when […]
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Fluence aims to ‘connect curators and creators’
Topspin co-founder Shamal Ranasinghe has returned with a new service: Fluence, which we’ve already seen described as Topspin-meets-LinkedIn. The company puts it another way: “a simple utility to directly connect […]
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Equity firm Transon buys Topspin assets
Wait! Didn’t Beats buy Topspin last month? Well, it did, but Transom Capital Group has acquired the remainder of Topspin’s e-commerce and marketing assets after Beats scooped up Topspin’s core technology.
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Beats Music raises up to $100m in new funding round
Beats Music is reported to have raised between $60m and $100m in a new round of funding.
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Beats Music opens its API
The streaming music arms race moves up a notch with the news that Beats Music is opening its API to external developers
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The Orchard gets on BalconyTV
There is clearly something in the investment water this week – Beats buying Topspin, Spotify buying The Echo Nest and now The Orchard has acquired Dublin
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Spotify appoints Beats Music’s former head of product
The Beats/Spotify tussle in the US is shaping up to make 2014 very interesting indeed. Earlier this week, Beats announced it had acquired Topspin
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Beats Music buys Topspin: ‘This acquisition puts our money where our mouth is’
Streaming music service Beats Music has acquired D2C firm Topspin. The company announced the deal in a blog post from its CEO Ian Rogers – formerly boss of Topspin – this afternoon.
“The acquisition brings a team of talented people who have spent years working on building and fine-tuning the artist-to-fan connection into the Beats Music experience,” Rogers wrote. “Topspin + Beats Music combines music discovery and direct relationships between artists and fans in a revolutionary way.”
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Despite Spotify deal, Topspin undergoes ‘major’ round of layoffs
On one level, things are going well for Topspin: the D2C merchandising firm’s most high-profile deals yet with Spotify and Beats came to fruition this month.
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Topspin confirms 44% of its staff have been laid off
Not quite half, then, but Topspin’s confirmation to Billboard that 14 employees are to lose their jobs – 44% of its staff
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Spotify opens up merchandise-selling feature to all artists
Over recent weeks, more than 200 artists have been selling merchandise through their Spotify profiles, after the streaming music service announced a partnership with D2C firm Topspin to launch the new feature.
Now it’s being opened up to everyone. From today, any artist can start selling merchandise on Spotify, from t-shirts and posters through to vinyl and deluxe box-sets.
Spotify is using Topspin’s ArtistLink tool, which means artists don’t have to use that company’s own stores to sell: instead they link it to whatever D2C store they’re already using. Spotify is also keen to stress that neither Spotify nor Topspin will be taking a cut of the revenues.