Sentences with phrase «as music companies»

Publishers are trying to figure out how to wrangle the electronic book market, (as music companies did a decade ago), librarians are trying to figure out how their services can be a choice in the offerings, salespeople are trying to market all sorts of solutions to librarians, and it will be interesting to see how it all unfolds.

«The mass - market consumer has been left behind as music companies focus on the superfan,» Mulligan says.

Well, the economics of music production today are far healthier than they ever were in Virgin's heyday as a music company.

Not exact matches

The BlackBerry had been entrenched in the corporate world in North America for years before the company actively courted consumers, whereas it was already equipped with consumer - oriented features such as music and social networking capabilities when it entered new markets more recently.

Looking ahead, Apple investors should hope the company can kick its Apple Music efforts into high gear, as services are becoming increasingly important to the company's business.

LONDON / BENGALURU, May 2 (Reuters)- Spotify Technology SA shares dropped as much as 9 percent after the streaming music leader's subscriber outlook and quarterly revenue fell just short of analyst estimates in its first report as a public company.

By that definition, just about every memorable entry on Parker's steadily growing curriculum vitae, from Napster and Facebook to current projects like music - streaming company Spotify and in - home movie service The Screening Room, counts as a hack.

LONDON / BENGALURU, May 2 - Spotify Technology SA shares dropped as much as 9 percent after the streaming music leader's subscriber outlook and quarterly revenue fell just short of analyst estimates in its first report as a public company.

LONDON / BENGALURU, May 2 - Spotify Technology SA shares dropped 9 percent after the streaming music leader's subscriber outlook and quarterly revenue fell just short of analyst estimates in its first report as a public company.

The company had four different ads connected to searches related to fitness, DIY projects and music as well as automotive.

In 2008, the company made a bid for Napster, the file - sharing service that had relaunched as a subscription music product, but bowed out when the asking price was too high.

And even the most successful companies in music streaming are hardly cash cows, saddled as they are with royalty payments to artists and labels.

Record companies, on the other hand, want to hike Spotify's fees to as much as 58 % of revenue, though Spotify could gain some leverage by offering labels the opportunity to make some music available only to the streaming service's 30 million paid subscribers.

Emoticast is the company behind TuneMoji, apps that allow users share music GIFs with sound across platforms such as iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Kik.

Hamilton's portfolio includes Text Engine, a startup that allows users with «dumb phones» to pull information from the internet; Radial, a music - streaming app focused on the soca, a Caribbean - based drum - heavy dance offshoot of calypso; and Tinsel, a hardware company that makes fashionable necklaces that double as headphones.

However, some events are larger, such as the Vans Warped Tour, a traveling music and extreme - sports festival for which the company exclusively handled the tickets for five stops this year.

The company's official name is Magic Hat Brewing Co. and Performing Arts Center, and it shows: Each year, Magic Hat sponsors several arts and music festivals in Burlington, as well as about 20 other concerts, mainly at New England venues.

That's a pretty long time for any company to stick around — especially in an industry as volatile and prone to disruption as the intersection of music and technology.

LONDON / BENGALURU, May 2 (Reuters)- Music streaming leader Spotify Technology on Wednesday posted quarterly revenue just below Wall Street's average estimate in its first report as a publicly traded company, sending its shares down 9 percent in after - hours trading.

LONDON, May 2 - Spotify Technology on Wednesday posted quarterly revenue in line with its recent outlook and sharply lower operating losses in the music streaming leader's first financial report as a publicly traded company.

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters)- Spotify Technology on Wednesday posted quarterly revenue in line with its recent outlook and sharply lower operating losses in the music streaming leader's first financial report as a publicly traded company.

Allen Klevens, CEO of Los Angeles - based Prescriptive Music, which works with companies such as The Cheesecake Factory and Century 21 to create music playlists, says the goal of music in a store should be to get customers to spend more money, stay longer, and, most importantly, have them reMusic, which works with companies such as The Cheesecake Factory and Century 21 to create music playlists, says the goal of music in a store should be to get customers to spend more money, stay longer, and, most importantly, have them remusic playlists, says the goal of music in a store should be to get customers to spend more money, stay longer, and, most importantly, have them remusic in a store should be to get customers to spend more money, stay longer, and, most importantly, have them return.

LONDON / BENGALURU, May 2 - Music streaming leader Spotify Technology on Wednesday posted quarterly revenue just below Wall Street's average estimate in its first report as a publicly traded company, sending its shares down 9 percent in after - hours trading.

The company touts the terminal as a Stradivarius for the beautiful music of making money, and as a status symbol.

And while that's likely to be music to the ears of cord cutters, it's a solid jab to cable and satellite companies, as well as other streaming services.

When the company launched Discover, the special content hub within its app in January and its biggest bet on making money, it included content channels from a few partner publishers, as well as one for its own material, such as short series, and music videos.

Current Venture: Music Is My Business, an Atlanta company that matches performers with marketers at clients such as Heineken and ESPN and produces original music and animMusic Is My Business, an Atlanta company that matches performers with marketers at clients such as Heineken and ESPN and produces original music and animmusic and animation

The streaming music company has hired Barry McCarthy to serve as its new chief financial officer.

Cable company Comcast (CCS) and European music startup Spotify have already signed on as clients.

The couple — who has been married since 2008 and have three children — earn their wealth primarily from music producing credits, album sales, live performances, and worldwide tours, as well as stakes in streaming service Tidal, a private jet company, and a luxury champagne brand.

As an example of success, Davis held up Vevo, the Hulu - like music video site owned by Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Company and served by Youmusic video site owned by Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Company and served by YouMusic Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Company and served by YouMusic Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Company and served by YouTube.

The company is also experimenting with turning down the volume of music (or as Abercrombie's president mistakenly called it during the conference call, «noise») played in stores, turning up the lighting, and generally making its retail locations feel less like a bizarre form of torture.

The company also creates interactive animated apps to go with the children's books, as well as music and animated short films.

While Microsoft and Sony trip over themselves trying to position their consoles not merely as consoles but as «entertainment centres» (movies, music, games, etc.), modern TVs are to a large extent already doing this natively through telecom companies.

John Riley of Fletcher Music Centers estimates that as he was getting his new program off the ground, he spent roughly a third of his day on some detail of getting the company focused on the new approach to its retiree customers.

An entirely new crop of companies was also working to combine music and social networking, such as Spotify, Pandora and Last.fm.

Despite the TV industry's perception that it is at the top of the entertainment food chain, at some point the impact of this shift becomes inescapable, just as newspaper and music companies eventually had to admit that the shifts they were seeing in consumer and advertising behavior were more than just a speed bump.

Though AudioNet started as a «sort of radio station for the internet,» CNN Money reports that the company soon branched out into video and music retailing, rebranding itself as broadcast.com.

As the world's largest music streaming service, Spotify is leading competitors including Apple Music and Pandora — and although it wasn't technically the first of its kind (Napster launched in 1999), the company aimed to revolutionize music streaming with easier access for consumers and a new idea for turning a prmusic streaming service, Spotify is leading competitors including Apple Music and Pandora — and although it wasn't technically the first of its kind (Napster launched in 1999), the company aimed to revolutionize music streaming with easier access for consumers and a new idea for turning a prMusic and Pandora — and although it wasn't technically the first of its kind (Napster launched in 1999), the company aimed to revolutionize music streaming with easier access for consumers and a new idea for turning a prmusic streaming with easier access for consumers and a new idea for turning a profit.

Spotify is the biggest global music streaming company and counts tech giants Apple and Amazon as its main rivals.

Cowell owns the television and music production company Syco which produces «America's Got Talent» and «Britain's Got Talent,» as well as «The X Factor» franchise.

The company, which started as a free music - and - culture magazine in Montreal in 1994, is now a behemoth: According to remarks made by CEO Shane Smith at the so - called «NewFronts» for advertisers, Vice will have revenues of $ 1 billion this year, and a recent financing round valued the company at $ 2.5 billion.

LONDON / BENGALURU, May 2 (Reuters)- Spotify Technology SA shares dropped 9 percent after the streaming music leader's subscriber outlook and quarterly revenue fell just short of analyst estimates in its first report as a public company.

Schusser, who joined Apple in 2004, has demonstrated an ability to work with music labels, studios and publishers — the companies that determine Apple's content acquisition costs, as it seeks to compete with big spenders such as Netflix and Spotify.

The sales numbers reflect the wide appeal of the emotional and personal ballads by the 27 year - old British singer, as well as the decision by her independent record company XL Recordings not to make the album available for streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Google Play.

The problem is, traditional measures like consumer spending or GDP underestimate the value of this market now, because digital goods like the music industry for example, are «cannibalizing» assets, such as the CD players or record companies of old.

SAN FRANCISCO — Spotify's first quarterly report as a public held company struck the wrong note with investors, even though its music - streaming service hit the subscriber - growth target set by management just before its stock began trading.

His music holdings also include investments in emerging - technology companies such as Spotify and Beats Electronics.

In 2000, Westergren pitched the company as an e-commerce site that would recommend music based on the genome, and in March he raised $ 1.5 million in venture capital.

Alibaba will continue investing in licensed music and streaming sites such as Xiami and will capitalize on advantages offered by its data, cloud - computing and artificial - intelligence units, the company said.