Michael Arrington of TechCrunch sat down for a coffee-table interview with Myspace’s new CEO, Owen Van Natta for this chummy interview:
Myspace will be making an effort to re-enliven its music content, focussing on “discovery, sharing and showcasing” new content, including games and video. Read the full trasncript of the article here on TechCrunch.
There has been a lot of talk recently about music startups. iLike is on the table and looking for a buyers, as is Imeem. A couple months ago Tunecore received more funding and now it is rumoured that Band Metrics has received angel funding.
Funding was led by Allen Graber, who is a technology investor and entrepreneur. Band Metrics was a Techcrunch 50 2008 semi-finalise, and this is a great step forward for their company. Band Metrics provides a first-of-its-kind semantic web application for the music industry that collects, analyzes and displays artist’s dynamic popularity. The company’s music intelligence and analytics are achieved through patent pending technology which assists artists in understanding large amounts of data relative to their music, fans and shows, while also helping them manage their digital identity.
In 2007 P2P music downloads were worth a staggering $69 billion, and all other forms of movie/television piracy are on the rise.
Techcrunch has been talking a lot about using music online as a free promotion tool, because eventually music will be free online. If record labels do use music online as a free promotional tool then they need to have other revenue stream. Warner Music is signing their new artists to 360 deals, in which allows them to have all revenues streams.
Somebody over there needs to put their thinking cap on, quit screwing around and just give the damn music away for free with no lawsuit strings attached.
RouteNote received some great press this morning by the UK version of the worlds largest technology weblog, Techcrunch.
Mike Butcher was nice enough to provide some great insights
RouteNote is a great way for unsigned bands to get themselves to market, then it is all about promotion, promotion, promotion.
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