Tag: Music

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Challenges of mobile content frustrate CTIA panelists

Published: April 1, 2008

LAS VEGAS -- You could feel the frustration in their voices as panelists at the CTIA Wireless 2008 conference grappled with ways to manage the distribution and monetization of mobile content.

Sales of mobile ringbacktones to grow 50 percent: Study

Published: March 31, 2008

A new study claims that ringbacktones will cross $210 million in U.S. retail sales this year, up 50 percent from $140 million in 2007.

Social.FM signs distribution deal with Handmark

Published: March 4, 2008

Social.FM, a social music service for mobile and online users, has inked a deal a distribution deal with mobile media specialist Handmark.

Early innings for mobile music, say Digital Music Forum panelists

Published: February 27, 2008

NEW YORK -- Opening up the walled gardens from the carrier side is going to help the mobile music sector generate more revenue.

Thumbplay to sell Sony BMG music

Published: February 22, 2008

Mobile entertainment content platform Thumbplay Inc. has signed a digital distribution agreement with Sony BMG Music Entertainment in yet another sign of mobile's importance to record labels.

DRM-free music on mobile offered by EMI, Jamba

Published: February 14, 2008

European mobile content provider Jamba is partnering with music label EMI to offer Digital Rights Management-free music for mobile devices and PCs.

Tune into music's potential for customer acquisition

Published: January 23, 2008

Irv Remedios, vice president of marketing at mobile networking service Mozes, said that every year the promise of mobile marketing seems "just a few years away."

Mobile music will thrive on ad support, sponsorship

Published: January 22, 2008

If the mobile music market is to grow, it has to go beyond single song or ringtone sales toward a model more reliant on advertising and support -- just like radio.