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YouTube’s Domination
YouTube continues on its amazing rise in viewed videos. For October of this year, they had an astounding 100 million unique users. These users watched a total 5.4 billion videos. Yes, 5.4 billion. During this period, 13.5 billion videos were watched across the web as a whole. That gives YouTube a 40% market share. Next [...]
Delicious Deli
Universal Music in Japan is charting new territory by starting a new label for Japanese artists. The new label will be called Delicious Deli Records and will start operations in January of ’09. The label will originate under Universal International but will really seek to build domestic Japanese artists. Universal has 5 other labels within [...]
Universal Meebo
Do you have a few different chat names? For instance, do you have an AOL name from a few years back along with your new Google g-chat name? Do you get frustrated having so many and not being able to combine friend groups? Well, the Meebo website was created to fix all of that.Meebo provides [...]
Universal & Dell’s Affair
For some reason, Universal Music Group is working with Dell to offer pre-packaged music deals to be pre-loaded on new Dell Computers. The offer would be either 50 songs for $25 or 100 songs for $50 and the music bundles would consist of songs of various themes, such as #1 songs and Rock Titans. Why [...]
Major Labels
Over this past weekend, I had a conversation with a friend of mine about the music industry. I was talking about the way that some of the big name artists were moving away from the major labels to companies like Live Nation that offered ’360 deals’ and touring venues throughout the world. I described how [...]
Universal’s CEO Interview
The Chairman & CEO of Universal Music Group, Doug Morris, recently gave an interview with Billboard. It is a fascinating interview that really shows the point of view of the labels. I know in my blog, I often rag on the labels, but reading this interview really helped me see that though they may be [...]
Universal’s Music Portal
Universal Music Group is looking to launch their own music video portal. This portal would be similar to NBC’s Hulu, where you can watch ad-supported tv shows on demand. Currently, Universal has licensed out their catalog to a number of websites for use, but does not have a site of their own. For instance, Universal’s [...]
