Category Archives: Yahoo music

Qtrax: same old wine wrapped in a new bottle

Posted on January 28, 2008 by vanelsas

This morning a lot of posts discuss the announcement that Qtrax has signed deals with all 4 major music labels for the peer2peer free ad-based music download service. Interesting enough, after everyone has started quoting each other on this “break … Continue reading →

Posted in advertisement, EMI, Music industry, p2p, Qtrax, Sony, Universal, Warner, Yahoo music | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Is Yahoo getting back into the game?

Posted on January 9, 2008 by vanelsas

I’m wondering if Yahoo is slowly getting back into the game. They have incredible amounts of traffic to their sites but never seem to be able to convert it into great services and loads of revenues, when compared to a … Continue reading →

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Advice to the record industry: go from distribution of music to distribution of emotions

Posted on November 15, 2007 by vanelsas

Michael Arrington of TechCrunchs wrote an article just now on in which he talks about the CEO of Warner music admitting “we were wrong”: We used to fool ourselves…We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it … Continue reading →

Posted in distribition of music, distribution of emotions, interaction, Mobile, Music industry, Warner music, Yahoo music | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment