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Guest Post: Music 4.5 Mobile Music – an event summary
Ryan Sommer, director of MaintainPR, sums up the latest Music 4.5 event – Mobile Music the sound of the future. Will Mills, Director Music and Content at Shazam, started the day. Mills, obviously a seasoned barometer with over 15 years experience … Continue reading
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Tagged ashley elsdon, guest post, mobile, mobile music, music, music 4.5, palm sounds, RjDj, shazam
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Guest post: Mobile Music Beyond the App
By Mark Mulligan Mobile Music has had more than its fair share of false dawns, largely because of wrongly set expectations. The App revolution appears to have finally kicked mobile music into market maturity, though in actual fact it is … Continue reading
Mobiles in Africa – a market we shouldn’t ignore
Charlotta Hedman The mobile industry in Africa is booming. It is the fastest growing mobile market in the world and according to the BBC almost 75 percent of the continent’s one billion people will own a mobile phone this year. Not many … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, emerging markets, mobile, music, spinlet, start-ups
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MidemNet Lab unveils its line-up of music startups
MidemNet Lab yesterday unveiled its selection of innovative digital start-ups and mobile apps developers that will get to pitch their activities to a panel of judges of industry and digital media experts as well as Venture Capitalists during the five … Continue reading
Video interview with singer-songwriter Ana Free
Music 4.5 blog editor Charlotta Hedman met up with singer-songwriter Ana Free a couple of weeks ago to talk about Youtube fame and how to use the internet to build a career. Ana might be young, but in just a … Continue reading
Music news from the blogosphere
ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) wants to stop Creative Commons. IFPI wants google to remove links to the The Pirate Bay. The Guardian blogger Helienne Lindvall on why aspiring artists shouldn’t write off the record labels. … Continue reading
Jemima Kiss on the future of music distribution
By Jemima Kiss How many times do you re-listen to your music collection? If you’re anything like me, you’ll listen to a new album on repeat for a couple of weeks and will hardly ever listen again. Is that odd? … Continue reading
Can the games industry save the indies?
By Steve Mullins Games and music are a tight match. And great news for artists. The Rock Band and Guitar Hero gaming titles have been responsible for consumers downloading tens of millions of digital tracks after play, with The Beatles … Continue reading