YouTube has paid record labels more than $1 billion in ad revenue over the last several years, said Google’s YouTube Content VP Tom Pickett during a panel at the music industry conference… Read more »
Los Angeles-based music marketing and merchandise sales startup Topspin Media laid of a significant number of its staff Wednesday. Music blog hypebot first reported the news, calling it “major layoffs,” and… Read more »
YouTube’s most recent Android app contains a number of references to premium music features, suggesting that the site’s music subscription service could launch soon. Read more »
“We aren’t trying to kill it, you are watching us fight for it,” writes Turntable.fm founder Billy Chasen on the company’s blog, explaining why it had to turn off user uploads… Read more »
BandPage wants to give bands a chance to control the content displayed on their bio pages on third-party services. Eventually, this could translate into real money. Read more »
Music sharing pioneer Audiogalaxy returned this week, but not with the features its former users — or its founder — hoped to offer. The former Napster competitor found that, even with… Read more »