Check In Radio Makes Mobile Contesting For Radio Easy
Triton Digital has introduced a new product that radio broadcasters can use to interact with their listeners. Check in Radio is an app that listeners can download to their smartphones and use to “check-in” with their favorite radio stations. It’s basically Foursquare for radio, agreed Patrick Reynolds of Triton when we spoke about it yesterday. [...]
Artists Streaming Albums Online For Free
There is a growing number of artists who are taking their music promotion directly to their fans by offering streaming access to it online. Why not – it’s a great way to give people a sample – and if they like what they hear they might buy a song, share it online, or buy a [...]
BRSMedia Just Keeps Growing and Growing
BRS Media has launched a new platform to support its top level domain registry for .FM. The new site, Get.fm, will showcase how .FM domains are fast becoming the premier channel to deliver news, information, music, entertainment, and social media to the masses on the Internet. Indeed, some of the Web’s most innovative online addresses [...]
Facebook Likes Third Party Streaming Services
Rumors that Facebook will announce a new music service at its upcoming developer conference f8 are circulating, but it doesn’t sound like that service will sell or stream music. Instead, it sounds like it’s a new set of tools that will enable music services such as Spotify, Pandora, MOG, Rdio and Rhapsody to integrate with [...]
MP3tunes Scores A Victory For Cloud Locker Services
This is a guest post by Angus MacDonald, General Counsel at Live365, Inc. regarding a recent court ruling that could have significant impact on the streaming audio industry. Cloud-based music services can heave a sigh of relief. MP3tunes, the cloud locker service founded by Michael Robertson, scored a partial victory in the copyright litigation brought by [...]
It’s About TIME To Look At Some Other Great Streaming Music Sites
Time Magazine updated its list of the 50 best websites recently with their 2011 list of sites that make the Web so useful, entertaining and just plain indispensable. Rather than ranking the sites all in one list, they’re grouped into categories such as Music and Video sites. Two streaming sites make that list, including 8Tracks, which not [...]
Play It Again Sam
I’ve got my eye on Dar.fm because I think it’s a service that could really have an impact on the way that people listen to Internet radio. Dar.fm is a service that enables subscribers to record any Internet radio program. It’s one of the latest creations by Michael Robertson, one of the space’s most entrepreneurial [...]
Will Streaming Sell More Music For eMusic?
eMusic has always had a slightly left of center approach to selling digital downloads. eMusic offers music consumers the opportunity to pay a monthly subscription fee for access to their song catalogs and download a certain number of songs per month – $12 bucks gets you 24 songs, $32 bucks a month allows you to [...]
Give Turntable.fm A Spin
Are you familiar with turntable.fm? The latest hip streaming music startup is getting funding from Fred Wilson‘s Union Square Ventures. It’s Internet radio gone social, and it’s getting lots of buzz. Founded by Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen, both of whom have been around digital startups before, this site has a social twist that should [...]
Dollars Are Flowing Into Music Startups This Year
A few weeks back Digital Music News published a chart of all the investments into Music related startups this year. The amount totaled almost $400 million dollars. The big winner was Spotify, with bragging rights to a $100 million investment. I’m not agreeing that Eventbrite is a music related startup, I think counting their $50m [...]
