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Add music to your postcard

January 3, 2012 in News Roundup

Have you ever wanted to send a postcard that enables you to share experiences beyond text and images?

Soundtracking, a free app from Schematic Labs, allows you to combine music, location and a photo acting as a musical postcard and making it easier to share and discover songs.

According to Steve Jang, CEO of Schematic Labs, a musical postcard is much more than just sharing music on social networks.

“Just because you’re listening to something doesn’t mean you like it. It doesn’t mean there’s any sort of emotional or life importance to it. People perk up and listen more when you have that,” he said.

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The social live music industry – where is the money?

December 1, 2011 in Events, Music

Date: 13 December 2011, 2pm-6pm
Venue: eOffice 20-24 Broadwick Street, London
Cost: from £105+VAT
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The live music industry is keen to nail that elusive ‘social’ factor to power their business to the next stage and there are a lot of new services out there to help. But, do they deliver?

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Spotify on Facebook

October 13, 2011 in News Roundup

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Spotify has been grabbing tons of headlines—not to mention new users—since its big U.S. debut earlier this year. Long reputed among Americans as “the coolest music service you can’t use” because of its past difficulties in making licensing deals beyond its home base in Europe, it finally made the great leap across the pond in July, snapping up over a million users in just a couple of weeks.

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YouTube the focal point for music listeners online

April 14, 2011 in News Roundup

YouTube_musicNew research has shown a huge number of consumers are going to Youtube for their music online, shunning paid-for downloads in the process.

Almost six in ten consumers had watched music videos on their computers in the last three months while less than 2 in 10 had bought a digital download in the same time.

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The Know How: Transmission

March 18, 2011 in Events

Venue: Stage 2, Northern Stage, Newcastle

Date: Monday 23rd May, 6-8pm

Entry: Free (places are limited)

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Generator is organising a series of music industry panel events, every night between 23rd-26th May. This seminar will examine the past, present and future role of music broadcasting (TV, radio and new technologies), and identify existing and new opportunities for emerging artists to get noticed.

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Music Futures Conference

March 17, 2011 in Events

Music FuturesDate: 30th March 2011, 10am-6pm
Venue: The Carriageworks, Leeds
Tickets: £25 Full price, £20 Early bird

The Carriageworks in Leeds is hosting the Music Futures Conference event on 30th March, organised by Newcastle’s Generator.

The confirmed speakers list looks like their strongest line up yet for the Yorkshire area providing a unique opportunity for the region’s music businesses.
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Spotify reaches one million paying subscribers

March 10, 2011 in News Roundup

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Founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon

Spotify has hit one million subscribers. Not literally, of course – that would be crazy, not to mention an insane amount of effort – but there are now a million people paying to listen to streaming music on Spotify.

Spotify reached a million users almost two years ago to the day, on March 2nd 2009 – that was including those listening to their freebie service, of course. A million paying subscribers is a bigger achievement, certainly in terms of keeping the outfit going.

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Beyond Oblivion secures $77m extra funding

March 10, 2011 in News Roundup

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Beyond Oblivion, the online music marketplace partly owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, has secured $77m (£47m) in additional investment ahead of its worldwide launch later this year.

The fledgling company plans to unveil its “liberated music” marketplace in September. Negotiations with the four major record labels – Universal, Warner Music, Sony and EMI – are at a “very advanced stage”, according to the Beyond Oblivion founder and chief executive, Adam Kidron.

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Sony launches Qriocity music service

January 13, 2011 in Blog, News Roundup

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We intended to comment on the seemingly pointless Qriocity streaming service recently launched by Sony in the UK but, well, the Guardian has  been kind enough to already do so in their technology blog.

While NMM always tries to remain impartial and write unbiased reviews, we can’t help but agree with the writer. Of course we are always happy to be proved wrong but the Qriocity (pronounced ‘curiosity’ we assume) service appears to be moving the industry backwards, not forwards.

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New Media Monthly playlist Dec 2010

December 24, 2010 in Blog, News Roundup

snowflake1Here is New Media Monthly’s playlist for December – a few of our favourite tunes of 2010 and a couple of Elvis tacks naturally.