THE MUSiC VOiD

Is The Music Industry Prepared For Mobile?

Marcus Taylor — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:20:29 +0000

This is a guest post by Marcus Taylor, founder & director of Venture Harbour. When I logged into my analytics account this morning I was shocked to notice that since January 2013, one quarter of my web traffic had come from mobile devices. Just two years ago this would have been a measly 6-7%. I [...]

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Benjamin Grubbs, Head of Partner Marketing, YouTube APAC

Jakomi Mathews — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:13:55 +0000

In preparation for Asia’s largest music conference Digital and Music matters hosted in Singapore, TMV caught up with Benjamin Grubbs, Head of Partner Marketing, at Youtube in the Asia Pacific region. Some good insights here folks. Enjoy! 1. With Youtube being the second largest search engine in the world how important is Entertainment video content [...]

EXCLUSIVE INFOGRAPHIC: How People Are Consuming Music

Jakomi Mathews — Mon, 06 May 2013 22:13:01 +0000

The kind folks at The Music Bed have provided TMV with the exclusive on this Infographic outlining how people currently consumer music across all key demographics. What is really critical is that the data was gathered from surveying 3,000 music consumers using Nielsen’s ePanel in the United States. Happy reading folks!

Mobile Content Battle: Native Apps vs HTML5 (The Browser)

Jakomi Mathews — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:27:22 +0000

Over the years we’ve heard lots of arguments in favour of native mobile applications, just as we have also heard the same for HTML5. So firstly, it is important to outline the difference between each mobile content experience? Subsequently, we will examine the crucial differences of native applications that site on your phone and that [...]

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO INTERVEW: Peter Noble, Festival Director – Bluesfest Byron Bay

Jakomi Mathews — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:17:07 +0000

TMV caught up with Bluesfest Festival Director Peter Noble back stage at this years 2013 event – the 24th event since it was launched back in (find year of launch). There is some background noise due us being near the APRA stage. We did try and edit it out to no avail. Regardless, Peter discusses [...]

Vice President, International Digital Brand Management, Youth & Music – NYC or London Offic

Jakomi Mathews — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:01:30 +0000

Job Description ** Position location could be in NY or London ** The Vice President will be the Brand centric Operational Manager of commercial strategy and technology convergence, leading the creation of new content and brand related opportunities beyond conventional (Linear) content distribution and publishing Managing the overall central Y&M Product Portfolio, Content & Creative [...]

24 Ways Musicians Can Use the iPad

Marcus Taylor — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:32:32 +0000

Over the past few years the music industry has come up with some pretty innovative ways to use iPad. from Jordan Rudess’s epic ‘Morphwiz’ App to whole live performances done on iPads. Well, if you haven’t yet been sold on the idea, here are 24 ways to use the iPad to learn, compose, perform, and [...]

EVENT REPORT: Bluesfest 2013 – Byron Bay

Jakomi Mathews — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:05:48 +0000

With such a stellar line-up including; Santana, Robert Plant, Paul Simon, Iggy and The Stooges, Ben Harper, and Wilco as headliners how could one afford to miss such a festival in a beautiful area such as Byron Bay – interestingly a place in the world where I spent some time growing up. This event report [...]

Four years in the making, Vdio finally opens up to Rdio subscribers in the US and UK

Janko Roettgers — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:49:40 +0000

Rdio launched its video service Vdio to the public Tuesday night [last week], offering movies and TV shows for rent and for sale. It’s not a subscription service, but it’s closely tied to Rdio’s music subscriptions. Vdio, the premium video service founded by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, emerged from private beta Tuesday night with an [...]

VP, Product and Platforms, CBS.com – Los Angeles

Jakomi Mathews — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:02:37 +0000

CBS Interactive is an award winning, premier content network for information and entertainment. Our brands dive deep into the things people care most about across entertainment, news, sports, technology and business. With hundreds of millions of visitors from around the world each month, CBS Interactive includes brands such as CBS.com, CBS Sports, CBS News, CNET, [...]