My posts from a few months ago were pushing for Spotify to get their service mobile. Now with the announcement that Apple have (quite surprisingly) given the thumbs up to the Spotify iPhone app & todays release of the smartphone app, I thought I would also add my thumbs up to what could be the [...]
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Spotify Get it Right, As Do Apple
Posted in , , tagged , , , , , , , , on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pandora Lights The Way For Spotify
Posted in , tagged , , , , on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A while ago I put together my case for how Spotify could revitalise the music industry. So far the stats supporting that are gradually growing, but it’s yet to prove as spectacular as I anticipated, something that Daniel Ek the co-founder of Spotify has put down to the current economic climate.
At the time of writing [...]
Turn it Up to 11!
Posted in , , , tagged , , on February 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A very clever store front design proving that an innovative approach can allow small businesses to gain exposure without having to throw cash around.
The shop is an independant in Southampton, England that has hit the front page on Digg after being posted on Flickr. Go Web 2.0!
Spot On? The Program Pioneering the Future of the Music Industry
Posted in , , tagged , , , on February 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve recently come across an application called “Spotify”, many of you may well have already stumbled across reference to it on the net or possibly recieved an invite to gain access to the application which is currently in its Beta stage.
It’s best described as “iTunes on demand” with no price to pay per track. Approximatly [...]
Infrastructure Doesn’t Make A Brand
Posted in , , , , tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With news today that Absolute radio has lost 461,000 listeners since it was re-branded from Virgin radio, the growing trend of new brands failing even with established infrastructure continues.
Absolute follow their fellow Virgin-re-branders Zavvi into a situation where the change in brand has seen problems arise. At least Absolute had a go at establishing the [...]
Lennon Loves Laptops
Posted in , , , tagged , , , , , , , , on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Lennon has been used in a US advert for charity One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) 28 years after being shot dead in New York. The initiative aims to give each child in developing countries a solar powered laptop in order to give them access to the wealth of knowledge that [...]
CD’s Sinking in the Ocean
Posted in , tagged , , , , on November 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Atlantic Records have reported that revenue from digital media (music downloads via sites like iTunes, ring tone downloads etc.) have made up 51% of their 4th quarter revenues. The news that these new forms of media distribution have become so prominent will not surprise most of the MTV generation, but seems to have come out [...]
