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Google Eyes Digital Music Biz

Google appears to be prepping for a push into the digital music business, despite previous denials by the company. According to an article in the Financial Times, the search giant is readying plans to launch a music search service with two online music platforms - News Corp's MySpace, and Lala. The new service will be part of Google's On  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/23/09

Web 2.0 Trends: Amazon: Earnings are up; Kindle is best seller. It's official – Facebook is king of the social networking scene: MySpace has conceded defeat in contest to become the largest online social network. Dailymotion, Europe’s biggest online video challenger to YouTube  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009

Google Wave Integrates Email, Data Sharing, Tweets

Google demonstrated a new product, Google Wave, yesterday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Google Wave is the result of a multiyear project bent on integrating e-mail, instant messaging, photo sharing, and possibly social networking. Components of Twitter, Friendfeed, and Facebook, alongside other internet discussions, can be aggregated in one interface, stream-of-consciousness-style. Users   [...]
Posted: Friday, May 29th 2009

Netflix Connects Users with Facebook

Online consumer entertainment retailer Netflix, which publicized intentions to focus more on its online content streaming service, is expanding its internet presence through a partnership with social networking site Facebook. Using the Facebook Connect extension of the social networking platform, Netflix customers who are Facebook members can seamlessly link both accounts, the company explains. This will allow Netflix customer  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 26th 2009

YouTube's Supersized Masthead Draws 'Encouraging' Engagement

Last Friday Google expanded an existing YouTube masthead ad into a "crosstalk ad unit," according to Adam Stewart, Industry Director-Media and Entertainment at Google. "It's a high-reach, high-impact ad unit that can deliver results," he said. It's also much larger than typical mastheads, reflecting growing eagerness by major online brands to unroll bigger, more engaging banner ad units to draw  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 24th 2009

Lucky's iPhone App Steers Ladies into Local Stores

Lucky, the Condé Nast publication about "shopping and style," released an iPhone application that lets shoppers locate a particular brand, color, and size of shoe in nearby stores. The Lucky at Your Service app taps into inventories of stores carrying the 70+ types of shoes listed in the magazine's March shoe guide, then narrows the search down to those with the model in stock. It then uses iPhone's GPS capability -- or an entered ZIP code -- to zero in on stores closest to the user,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 4th 2009

Record Labels Go 'All In' on MySpace Music

In the fast-paced world of social media, it seems a lifetime ago that MySpace announced the impending debut of MySpace Music -- but it was actually only last April. While it isn't clear what called for the big delay, the social network is now ready to launch the music site -- which could debut in mere days, Ars Technica   [...]
Posted: Monday, September 15th 2008

TurnTo Widget Socializes Online Shopping

A big part of the online shopping experience is reading product reviews from anonymous customers. One media company hopes to make those reviews a little more personal. TurnTo Networks introduced the beta version of a social-shopping network that gives potential customers access to recommendations and feedback from friends rather than strangers, writes Internet Retailer (  [...]
Posted: Friday, September 12th 2008

Casual Male Launches Supersized Social Network

Big men can social network about fashion and what it's like to be "big and tall" with a new network from Casual Male Retail Group, parent company of brands like Casual Male XL and LivingXL, MediaBuyerPlanner writes. The site, BoldXL, targets larger-sized 18- to 24-year-old men, and will include articles, blog posts and videos on the issues facing them,   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 19th 2008

eNote Brings Audio/Visual Email Marketing to Artists, Music Labels

For up-and-coming bands, getting airtime on a radio station -- whose mailbox is typically deluged with new singles -- is a difficult task. In lieu of mailing a CD that will never be played, musicians can email sample tracks via eNote, powered by Yangaroo, which recently patented its own digital media distribution system. eNote enables recipients to listen to a song snippet, view album art and chec  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 11th 2008

Mochila Goes 4.0, Gains Autonomy and a (Go)Daddy

Having just launched Mochila 4.0, a more current version of its content marketplace, Mochila also announced the development of agreements with Autonomy and GoDaddy. Mochila 4.0 boasts an invigorated homepage and a viral content badge system. Autonomy Corp will assist n providing advanced and segmented search capabilities. Mochila will also be supply content to GoDaddy's web hosting customers. CMSWire   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 12th 2007

Nikon Goes New Media, Sponsors DRM-Free Music

To promote its "support of music and music culture," Nikon has become an inaugural sponsor for RCRD LBL. RCRD LBL is an online music label that proffers sponsor-supported MP3s at no cost to the consumer. It is the result of a joint venture between founder Peter Rojas of Engadget and Downtown Records, which signed the band Gnarls Barkley.   [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 15th 2007

OneUpWeb Scrutinizes Impact of Universal Search

A new white paper entitled “Cashing In on Universal Search: Questions Needing to be Asked, Answers You Need to Know," written by OneUpWeb, examines Google's Universal Search and how it will alter practices in online marketing. The Universal Search model populates a search page with results from Google News, as well as Images, Blogs and other properties, including video and maps. CEO Lisa Wehr of OneUpWeb stated, "Universal Search will impact search positions, website design,  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 18th 2007

Time Life Campaign Grabs Web's Long Tail for DVD Sets

Time Life is kicking off a broad online promotional effort to support its DVD collections, hoping to widely distribute online clips to drive sales. Time Life has linked up with video platform company Brightcove to promote the release of the Get Smart collection on fan sites and blogs, reports AdWeek. Any size site, blog or even a MySpace user can embed a Get Smart-br  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 13th 2006

Virgin/EMI to Hold Virtual Concert in Whyville.com

Virgin/EMI is promoting a concert this weekend for one of its young recording artists, pop/R&B singer Stacie Orrico, but don't look for it in a stadium or theater - it will be presented on the virtual world of Whyville.com. Whyville.com, described as an edu-tainment virtual world for the tween-age generation, is creating the concert for Orrico, whose target audience is 8-15-year-old kid  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 8th 2006

Music Labels Smell Money in Second Life

The music industry is the latest to realize the marketing potential of establishing a presence in Second Life. As membership in the online virtual world Second Life continues to skyrocket, music labels have finally decided that it's time to join the fun and get their slice of the economic pie, Reuters reports. Sony BMG has cast the longe  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 5th 2006

Xbox Live Brings Video Downloads to Xbox 360

Starting on Nov. 22, Xbox Live will begin making movie and television episodes available for download to Xbox 360 owners. Making downloads available via the Xbox 360 removes the one restraint - the computer monitor - that has turned most users off to downloading movies, the New York Times explains. With the XBox 360, users can download to the console via Xbox Live, which requires a broadband internet connection, a  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 8th 2006

YouTube + Family Vacations = Travelistic.com

Hoping user-generated videos will do for online travel what Saturday Night Live skits did for YouTube, Travelistic.com has launched, encouraging travelers to post their travel videos and commentary. Travelistic will feature videos created by users and local tourism bureaus, among others, and has incorporated social-networking features, MediaPost   [...]
Posted: Monday, October 23rd 2006

Burger King, Diddy Launch DiddyTV for YouTube

Sean "Diddy" Combs says he is having it his way as he partners with Burger King to create the new brand channel DiddyTV for YouTube. The branded channel on YouTube will feature tracks from Combs's new Bad Boy/Atlantic Records CD "Press Play," as well as original content for fans, AdWeek reports. Combs will also be featured in an upcoming ad campaign in support of DiddyTV. WPP Group's V  [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 12th 2006

YouTube Hires Its First CMO

YouTube filled another spot on its management team by naming Suzie Reider as the company's first chief marketing officer. Reider, who previously served as CNET SVP-general manager of entertainment, will immediately focus on monetizing YouTube's large user base, Advertising Age reports. YouTube has begun courting advertisers in earnest, recently signing deals with Cingular and Warner Music Group. In late August, YouTube  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 28th 2006