The trendier, with-it, hep cats amongst you may be acquainted with Grooveshark. For the uninitiated, Grooveshark is a streamed music service; it has a mobile application that, for nine dollars a month, allows you access to unlimited music for its extensive catalogue, as well as enabling you to upload content to the site. And Google [...]
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Diversifying Business Models Highlight Strength of Mobile Music – Analyst View
by Daniel Ashdown on March 16th, 2011
In Juniper Research’s recent report on mobile music, we found an industry in a healthy state with cause for optimism. Hence I was surprised to read a recent blog post by BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones which starts by asking: “Whatever happened to the mobile music revolution? You know, the idea that your phone would become [...]
Ahead in the Cloud: Thumbplay Acquisition Raises Streaming Stakes
by Daniel Ashdown on March 3rd, 2011
The announcement that Clear Channel – the largest radio station group owner in the US – is to acquire Thumbplay’s music streaming service for both fixed line and wireless devices is a strong indication of the potential of this business model. As I discussed in my recent report on mobile music, a number of streaming [...]
It is probably fair to say that, for many forms of mobile entertainment, progress is often a case of two steps forward, one step back; that during those two steps forward, the analyst community (and, if it’s a particularly big step that makes a lot of noise, mainstream journalists and thereby the wider public) is [...]
I think it is fair to say that, for reasons we are all familiar with, VC funding for mobile content and applications providers has been thin on the ground over the past twelve months, at least in comparison with the relative largesse bestowed upon the industry in preceding years. That said, the downturn has not [...]
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