Tag: WARNER

As Spotify -- the popular online music service -- nears profitability in Europe, the situation isn't quite as rosy across the pond. With Spotify's hopes of a 2010 U.S. launch officially dashed, the company is still facing an uphill climb in the States. The sticking point, according to sources cited by The Telegraph, may be financial demands from the U.S. record labels. Concerned that users will ...

The Warner Music Group, who represent artists such as R.E.M and Genesis (and more importantly for me, Death Cab for Cutie and Faith No More), have just announced that they no longer wish to license their music for online streaming services such as Spotify, Grooveshark and others. It's not clear at this point whether they will be taking their music down, or just not sign any more licensing deals ...

eMusic is a solid place to purchase and download music. They've always had a great catalog of music that is "off the beaten path," as well as recordings of live performances. Their catalog is about to get even larger: eMusic has finally reached an agreement with Warner Music and will be adding around 10,000 new albums. No, those new albums won't include current popular music - that's something ...

There's been a lot of buzz over the last few days about how all of Warner Music Group's music videos have gone missing from YouTube. Now Alley Insider reports that Warner, BMG, EMI, and Universal are talking about building their own site for music videos. The idea would be to create a single destination where be able to find music videos from popular artists. There's some reason to think the ...

Warner Music is working with Premium TV to create an online site featuring the record label's entire music video library. The service will be supported by advertising, and the videos will be available to stream for free. You'll be able to download videos for a fee. While you can currently access some Warner content from the label's website, the deal would include Warner's entire library, plus ...

The worlds fourth largest supplier of music, Warner Music Group, has announced yesterday that they will be releasing their entire music collection to use for all of you Last.fm users out there. With over 15 million users, Last.fm has blown up over the past few years as one of the best social music sites on the net. With integration into digital media players on your computer, such as your iTunes ...

All this talk about video lately is surely driving everyone video mad! This is a different kind of video news, a new partnership of sorts. Warner Music, one of those big record labels, has decided to use Brightcove's technology to embed music videos inside of its record label and musician web sites. Sire, Atlantic, and Electra are some of the labels that will be using the video technology to ...

Looks like Google's new partners, Warner, Universal, and Sony, are pushing Google to develop a technology that allows copyright owners to search and locate their content and choose to whether they want remove it from YouTube. This new technology that is in development is said to be able to scan audio in mp3 or video and compare so-called electronic fingerprints. In order to make labels happy and ...

Ah when the river of Google flows, it is plentiful. Not even sitting down for a breather, the big G has announced a deal with Sony BMG and Warner Music Group (yea, they shook hands with YouTube last week too) to bring "thousands" of free music videos to GooTube Google Video, thanks to their standard ad-supported model. They have plenty of videos linked front and center under their search box from ...

YouTube has made some surprising progress in its quest to host every music video ever created in a deal with Warner Music that will put the record giant's entire music video library online. This is in stark contrast to the recent legal threats by Universal against YouTube regarding copyright. The Warner deal gives YouTube users access to the music videos plus the green light to remix those videos ...