Mobilefilmworks Releases Beta Streaming Service For Indie Movies To Mobile April 21, 2010
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Mobile entertainment firm Mobilefilmworks, Inc. debuts its beta service that makes instant streaming of full-length feature movies available on-demand to millions of mobile phone users. Mobilefilmworks is now available via the mobile web on all four major U.S. carriers and initially across 30 different handset devices, including the iPhone, Droid, Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile and many high-end feature phones, potentially reaching over 250 million subscribers.
AFM Comments To The FCC Regarding Network Neutrality April 21, 2010
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The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada submitted comments on April 9, 2010 to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pertaining to the FCC proceeding to establish rules for an open Internet (network neutrality). The AFM stated that protecting an open Internet while providing protection for copyrighted content should be the end result of the FCC proceeding. The AFM called on the FCC to work with stakeholders to create best practices for ensuring network neutrality and protecting copyrighted content.
FUGA Adds Digital Video Management To Platform April 21, 2010
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Lady Gaga’s have clocked up over a billion views, OK Go’s launched them into the public’s consciousness and for many they have become the dominant medium for consuming music. We are of course talking about music videos and in the digital age they are more important than ever.
With a growing variety of video on-demand services and the wide spread usage of hand held devices capable of playing video content, music videos provide a huge boost to an act’s profile and can also provide a significant revenue stream for rights holders.
YANGAROO And MTV Networks Music Group Enter Agreement April 21, 2010
Posted by David W. King in digital distribution, Digital Entertainment, Digital Formats, Digital Music, Digital Music News.Tags: MTV Networks Music Group, YANGAROO
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YANGAROO Inc., the industry’s leading secure digital media distribution company, has signed a multi-year agreement with MTV Networks (MTVN), a division of Viacom International Inc.
Under the Agreement, MTV Networks Music Group will begin utilizing YANGAROO’s Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) to have artist and music-related audiovisual content delivered to certain MTVN properties and to integrate DMDS into the company’s internal workflow. MTV Networks Music Group includes music video channels MTV, MTV2, VH1, VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul, and Country Music Television (CMT) and CMT Pure.
SIRIUS XM Adds Over 171,000 Net Subscribers In The First Quarter April 21, 2010
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SIRIUS XM Radio announced that it added 171,441 net subscribers in the first quarter of 2010, compared to a net subscriber decline of 404,422 in the first quarter of 2009. The Company ended the first quarter with 18,944,199 subscribers, an increase of 344,765 over the year ago quarter.
MediaNet Tops 100 New Customers For Digital Delivery Of Premium Content April 21, 2010
Posted by David W. King in digital distribution, Digital Entertainment, Digital Formats, Digital Music, Digital Music News.Tags: MediaNet
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MediaNet, the industry leading business-to-business provider of premium digital media content, announced that more than 100 new customers have signed on to provide digital music content from the advanced MN Open platform. MediaNet debuted a new set of products including the MN Open API and a suite of Web Components for the delivery of premium digital music content six months ago.
Twitter Donates Entire Tweet Archive To Library Of Congress April 21, 2010
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Twitter is donating its digital archive of public tweets to the Library of Congress. Twitter is a leading social networking service that enables users to send and receive tweets, which consist of web messages of up to 140 characters.
Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets per day from people around the world. The Library will receive all public tweets-which number in the billions-from the 2006 inception of the service to the present.
SoundExchange Announces $51.7 Million In Q1 Payments To Artists, Labels April 21, 2010
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SoundExchange, the non-profit performance rights organization appointed by Congress to pay digital royalties to recording artists and sound recording copyright holders, announced that it has begun sending out checks in its largest-ever quarterly distribution. A total of $51.7 million in royalties from digital transmissions, including Internet radio, satellite radio, and cable TV music channels, are on their way to recording artists and copyright holders. The unprecedented amount represents a 135% increase over first quarter payments last year, and surpasses the previous record distribution by nearly $10 million.
mflow Adds UK’s Largest Catalog Of Independent Music April 21, 2010
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mflow have partnered with biggest independent distributor Ditto Music to provide fresh new material to a service who’s users pride themselves on sharing and discovering new talent.
Ditto Music have secured an agreement with new service mflow, that is set to take the world of digital streaming to a whole new level. The agreement will allow independent artists to make their music available to mflow’s wide audience of music lovers.
Nimbit Unveils Next Generation Direct-to-Fan Platform April 21, 2010
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Nimbit (www.nimbit.com), the music industry’s premier direct-to-fan provider, announced today nimbitPro‚ the first fully integrated solution allowing music professionals to easily manage their entire business from one place. This next generation platform debuts today at the ASCAP Expo in Hollywood, CA.
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