Resnikoff’s Parting Shot: Saying No to Freemium…
Tough to say why Spotify gets so much hype. Sure, the application is amazingly elegant, and addictive for music fans. It also offers a very convincing case for cloud superiority (itself a worthwhile debate). But how is Spotify different than any number of freemium music prayers before it? And why are American executives being asked to play along?
More Weekend Bits: TuneSat, Live Nation+Ticketmaster, Rhapsody, Gracenote, Volvo, Licensing, Leadership, Wall Street…
*TuneSat, a company specialized in monitoring and detecting TV-related song plays, has just raised $975,000. *The planned merger between Live Nation and Ticketmaster has hit a snag in the UK. The UK Competition Commission is reopening the matter following a complaint by German-based ticketing agency CTS Eventim, pushed through the Competition Appeal Tribunal.