Well, it looks like they're going to give it a go. With display ad revenues not enough to make substantial, or indeed any, profit, according to a survey from the Association of Online Publishers, around 70% of online publishers in the newspaper, magazine or TV industries will pay for content online...
Coming soon from Free Scott , the new entertainment venture of Ridley Scott and his brother Tony, is a trippy new sci-fi entertainment project called Purefold that plans to let brand’s sponsor the content, and let the audience drive the plot line using social networking platforms. Produced by Ag8, the...
With the launch of the Spotify App for the iPhone interest for streaming music is higher than ever. There seems to be no limit for its reach, with new users streaming free music every day, changing the way people think about ownership of music forever. And it’s spreading. LoveFilm, the video rental company...
Rupert Murdoch seems to think that you will. After the huge financial losses just announced by News Corp, Murdoch has decreed that, possibly from as soon as next year, he will charge for all his newspaper websites including The Times and The Sun. It isn't clear whether this will extend to broadcast...
Today it is official that blogging empire Shiny Media has closed shop, leaving media lovers sad to see the death of this technology, fashion and lifestyle content network that attracted some of the highest traffic for a UK-centric website of more than three million unique visitors monthly. News of Shiny...
We7.com, the 4M track strong free streaming music service founded by Peter Gabriel, has announced that it has topped 2M monthly unique visitors. The news comes hot on the heels of its main competitor Spotify announcing its own 2M user landmark. However, this vast intake of users amounts to very little...
Since its beta launch at the end of last year the music streaming service Spotify has quickly become a bit of a "fans" favourite, offering a wide catalogue of music to its users to listen to for free with relatively little interference from advertising. With an interface that ingeniously 'borrows'...
If we’re celebrating a boom era in the relationship between music and brands its worth recalling that the marriage hasn’t always been one of perfect harmony. Rock ‘n’ roll is an outsider sport and its relationship with rebellion, vice and general mischief is well documented (and as for reggae...) So...
