100% music:tech
Tonight, Universal, Sony and Abu Dhabi Media Company are joining forces to launch music video site Vevo in North America. The New York Times says that the group has lured another big label in EMI to serve as a content provider, leaving only Warner Music as the lone holdout of the Big Four. Vevo videos will be hosted and streamed by YouTube and be backed by over a dozen advertising partners.
The SF MusicTech Summit
Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco
December 7th, 2009
The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We meet to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment
Read Write Enterprise has a nifty profile on buzzworthy pop-rockers Chester French, who took the initiative and recently built their own app on the Salesforce platform. It’s essentially a “VIP application” where fans can benefit from being on a VIP list. According to RWE, the more they promote the band, the more points they get along with prizes like music and t-shirts. Watch the vid above for more info.
Digital Music News has the skinny on some recent correspondence from telecom giant Verizon. Perhaps feeling a bit more emboldened by its big Droid launch, the company has sent notices to folks that might be labeled as music-infringing customers as a courtesy to major label partners represented by the RIAA. Verizon seems to be taking a somewhat hands-off approach as a third-party that’s just passing along warnings, but things seems a bit more stern than that.
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