Blog: The Daily Rind

Netflix - Lefsetz Letter Apple's 'iRadio' service 'stalled over royalties' Covering Pop Hits On YouTube Is Starting To Pay Market Is Ready for YouTube Subscription Channels Judge Tosses DMCA Defenses, Creating Unexpected Copyright Liability For Web Services In New York iTunes users spending at the rate of $40/yr.

What a beautiful day! And what colorful album art to accompany it. Now that's the way to start a weekend. Well, that and this fabulous selection of free music you see below.  To start, NPR has got the first track to Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' latest album, which can't ...

YouTube Launches Paid Subscription Channels The Key to Slacker's Rumored Profitability That Nobody's Talking About Sony completes acquisition of Now! EU stake Amazon Cloud Player users can now stream music in Ford SYNC AppLink cars using an iOS device What An Audio-Streaming Device and 3D Smartphone from Amazon Could Mean ...

Charles Wisniewski Senior Developer/Tech Lead Joined The Orchard in June 2011 Now that we've renovated our office, you're no longer in a cube and we can actually SEE you. More than ever we need to know, what the #&@$ do you do?!?! The office renovation was AWESOME. I was in ...

To the excitement of literature aficionados old and young alike, Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, this summer’s quintessential 3D adaptation flick, hits theaters tomorrow. Just think, it won't be long now before you’re in the theater being captivated by Leonardo DiCaprio’s icy stare as he portrays the troubled and mysterious Gatsby in ...

Kobalt Launches New Portal, Unlocks User-Generated YouTube Royalties Acquired by Twitter, We Are Hunted Puts Spotify App on Hold, Posts Epic Playlist Slacker Redesign Helped Drive 100K New Subscribers Spotify patches Chrome exploit that allowed MP3 downloads of any song Pandora Email to Artists Ruffles Feathers Shazam expands Rdio integration beyond ...

Working across both the digital and physical markets, I am frequently asked my thoughts on the future of physical music sales. While I believe a physical market will survive for music, I also often point to services like Amazon Disc on Demand as an interesting space to watch. Many questions ...

Music Industry Style Guide Aims to Get Everyone Selling Music Online on the Same Page with Uniform Metadata Live Nation Revenue Up 6% in First Quarter Public performance royalties on ad music net publishing sector £10 million in 2012 Rhapsody Goes Deep on Liner Notes, Crediting Songwriters, Session Musicians, Engineers ...

Introducing Ryan MacPhee, Senior Manager, Business Affairs Hello everyone! I'm excited to be joining The Orchard here in New York. I will be working with the Content Acquisition team focused primarily on the many amazing services we offer in addition to distribution, including The Orchard Video Network, Sync Licensing, Compilations, ...

For Jehovah’s Witnesses, it is only once all mankind has heard God’s message that the day of judgement will come. Only then, once everybody has had opportunity to repent, and the chance of enlightenment, will the wheat be separated from the chaff in the second coming of Christ. They believe ...

YouTube to advertisers: we're the new TV, because we're nothing like TV Pandora's Cap on Mobile Listening Causes Drop in Streams Metadata Confusion Costing the Industry More than Money, Delegates Told at NARM Music Biz Summit Senate passes Internet sales tax Business Matters: How Netflix Reduces Piracy Indie Music Site ...

Two years ago, the online video streaming services competed for volume of titles and over the same potential users. The dinner table discussion over “Netflix vs. Hulu vs. Amazon” focused on which service offered the most shows and best movies for the price point. This year, the conversation has changed ...

Spotify Acquires Music Discovery Service Tunigo How Stuff Spreads. Gangnam Style versus Harlem Shake: the anatomy of two memes Spotify + Yahoo! for On The Road YouTube now emails you when your video is live, and will soon default all uploads to 'private' Are You Ready to Pay for YouTube?

Where did the week go? How about a better question, who cares? That's right, everyone's favorite day of the week is back, and with it, Freeloader Friday. We have loads of music to satiate your hunger for new tunes this week - so sit back, relax, grab a pair of ...

Apple announces $10,000 prize to mark App Store milestone YouTube users now watch 6 billion hours of videos a month Songza has 4.7m active users, but it can't rest on its laurels WorldPay: Half of Brits want the power to resell their digital content VEVO snares seven-figure deal with ex-T4 ...

Five years ago today, we launched this blog to share artist news as we grew our roster of Interactive Marketing campaigns. We quickly evolved The Daily Rind into a vital piece of our corporate content marketing strategy, focusing on client communication, Orchard news, tips for navigating the digital landscape, op-eds ...

High spenders dominate US music sector Mobile Drives Facebook's First Quarter Facebook 1st-Quarter Net Up 6.8% Amid Growth in Mobile Songza Surpasses 6 Million App Installs, Debuts Version 3.0 Digital music guys behind Blip.fm and Fuzz form secret media company

Fans all over the world waited over 15 years for Guns N' Roses to release Chinese Democracy. Similarly, fans of Hip-Hop have been waiting almost 14 years for Dr. Dre's Detox to hit the streets. For fans of the widely acclaimed 2004 Pure Intec compilation, the wait is over. The hugely successful Dance/Techno music series has just ...

Bud Light Teams With Live Nation, MySpace, Universal For 50 Concerts in 50 States Zoe Keating to play rare London gig after fan-led Detour campaign Music Dealers: 'Brands are picking up the pieces of the music industry' Amazon updates Lovefilm Instant with PS3 HD streaming, improved search  SiriusXM Sets Record ...

Introducing Dan Griffiths, Interactive Marketing Manager, UK My path into the music industry was not a standard route! When I was a teenager, in the early days of the Internet and 56k dial-up modems, I decided I would set up a website to blag my way into shows and get ...