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Google Prepares Music Search Service (Updated)
Google plans to launch a music service, Wired.com has confirmed with sources familiar with the situation. Next to nothing is known about the service at this point, rumored to be called “Google Music,”...
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YouTube’s Skippable Ads Could Command a Premium
Google launched a “small test of skippable pre-roll” video advertisements on YouTube that asks users to “opt in” to advertisements by not opting out using a skip button in the upper right corner of the...
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Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive
MySpace, rumored to be on the verge of purchasing the free music streaming site imeem, is struggling to keep up with its own payments to music copyright holders, according to a top News Corp executive...
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Vevo Adds Videos from CBS Radio, Last.fm, Still Lacks Two Majors
Vevo, the upcoming video site founded by Universal Music Group and also owned by Sony Music and Abu Dhabi, will include music and music-related video archives from CBS’s Last.fm and 90 CBS Radio...
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EMI Licenses Content to Vevo in 11th-Hour Deal
Vevo, the music-video website set to launch Tuesday, added EMI Music to its content roster, thanks to a last-minute content licensing deal. The site is backed by Universal and Sony. The deal does not...
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Label-Backed Vevo Video Site Launches, But MTV Has ‘No Fear’
Universal Music Group dreamed it up, Sony Music and Abu Dhabi invested, and now, the on-demand music-video service Vevo has finally launched. The main inspiration for the service was the...
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Muziic Plays Vevo, YouTube Music Without ‘Obtrusive’ Ads
Major record labels have been hoping that music videos will become the best way to make free music pay, for the simple reason that is easier to advertise to people watching videos than to those just...
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SeeqPod Founder Resurfaces with Mimvi Music Aggregator
Kasian Franks, founder of sued-into-oblivion SeeqPod, is climbing back in the saddle with a new service that aims to apply the same “playable search” concepts that made the music discovery service so...
View ArticleWorld’s Biggest Record Label Pulls Videos from MTV.com
Negotiations between Vevo and MTV, the two heavyweights of the music video, have broken down with dire results for visitors to MTV’s websites where music videos from Universal Music Group, the largest...
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Is YouTube Bad for Music?
If you’re looking for the best source of free music in the world, look no further than YouTube. Good for you, but for artists maybe not so much. A few years ago, if you wanted to hear what a band ...
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