Music Industry 2.0
We are looking for a Senior Account Manager to work with a top 3 grocer and a major global online account. You will develop close working relationship with these clients driving sales through partnership marketing and ongoing. In addition, you will be working with the Trade Sales Sector Manager to identify opportunities for strategic growth across all channels and routes to market.
We are looking for an individual to bring the business plan to life with their experience of similar ventures in a B2C environemnt and with experience of the ecommerce sector.
The ideal candidate will have experience at a similar level ideally within the entertainment sector, have formal marketing training be able to demonstrate successful marketing of a product or company. Please let us know why you are the right candidate for the role including current salary details and CV.
We are seeking a high calibre account manager with good experience of the online retail area either in the physical product fulfilment or digital delivery area. They will have a good understanding of the major online retailers with an eye for both the specialist and non-specialist routes to market. You will have at least 3 years handling major accounts, be aware of the online market and be driven to further your career with a leading company.
We don’t know if this is true or not, but we wouldn’t put it past the ex KLF’ers, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty… Well worth a read though…
The Samaritans have today recruited 600 extra staff to deal with an expected surge in calls as troubled fans come to terms with today’s revelations about rocker and teen icon Pete Doherty. In a surprise press conference today, the men behind Doherty’s career reveled themselves – and admitted that the Libertines, Babyshambles, the tales of drug use, the armed robberies and the affair with supermodel Kate Moss have all been part of one of the largest hoaxes in British history. (more…)
Digital Rights Agency, the leading worldwide digital music distributor, announced today it has sent a letter to Sprint Nextel Corporation CEO Gary Forsee, strongly condemning the company’s failure to include independent record label catalogs in its recently launched full-track download service.
Digital Rights Agency represents more than 250 leading independent labels, including exclusive digital rights for the multi-platinum Daddy Yankee title Barrio Fino, the Billboard #1 Latin album of 2005, and key titles by gold and platinum recording artists Chamillionaire, Lil Jon, Snoop Dogg, Death Cab for Cutie, Yellowcard, Smokey Robinson, Count Basie and many others. (more…)
Riffin’, an online music discovery service sporting the entire North American catalog including song downloads and CDs from all Majors and hundreds of independent labels, today announced the public launch of its “Beta” site at www.riffin.com.
Users can register as Webjockeys™, build Rifflists™ and review individual songs. Webjockeys earn cash when other visitors buy downloads from their playlists.
The name of the game is “music discovery.” A Rifflist combines music, text, pictures, and personality. DJs and other contributors mix songs to surprise, delight, and inform the listener. (more…)
Ending a three-year legal struggle over intellectual property rights and music piracy, the Korea Association of Phonogram Producers said yesterday that it had reached a settlement with Soribada, a music file-sharing Internet site, and had withdrawn all civil and criminal cases it had filed against the site operators.
Soribada in Korea was the equivalent of Napster or Morpheus: a site where users could post digital music for download by other users at no charge. Although illegal, the music industry has grappled with how to attack the problem. Soribada agreed to pay 8.5 billion won ($8.8 million) to the music producers’ group as compensation; part of the sum represented its earnings from banner advertisements on the Web site. In April, it will convert itself to a pay service.
APPLE, which recently boasted that consumers had downloaded a billion songs from its iTunes Music Store, has been more subdued when discussing the fortunes of the Australian version of the service.
Apple Australia declined the opportunity to comment on take-up of Music Store in Australia since it was launched last September.
An Apple Australia spokesman said corporate policy prevented it from discussing local download figures.
Apple has released local download figures for Music Store in the US and Japan, and revealed local download figures in the major markets served by its European online music shop.
Mobile phones that enable users to download music represent competition for the iPod and could prompt Apple to launch an iPod/mobile phone hybrid, a leading telecoms executive has suggested.
There have been a number of rumours in the past that Apple is planning to launch a new iPod that would allow users to make phone calls.
Qualcomm chief executive Paul Jacobs believes a wireless iPod would be “really a cool thing”.