Tag: Spotify

• What’s happening with Spotify?

  It has been a big week for Spotify. At a special event last Wednesday the online music company announced its shift from being ‘just’ a provider of music online to a ‘music platform’ that ties in with third party applications. In short, this means that Spotify will turn its service into a platform for developers, who […]

  marcabraham

  December 14, 2011

  Digital Content, Music

  7digital, Music, Spotify

• Facebook’s new music platform – what will happen tomorrow?

  Interesting times for online music. A few months ago I wrote about the likes of Rdio and 7digital, where I work, stepping in to offer serious competition to iTunes. A few months later, in July, Spotify launched in the US and the picture of online music looked complete. It now turns out that this observation was way […]

  marcabraham

  September 21, 2011

  Digital Content, Digital Strategy, Music, Social Media, Startups

  Facebook, Music, socialmedia, Spotify

• Rdio creates API and launches affiliate program

  It all seems to be happening in the world of online music services; in January I blogged about the linkup between music stream service Spotify and mobile music discovery service Shazam and last week I learned about on-demand social music service Rdio opening its API to developers and starting an affiliate program. Rdio is the […]

  marcabraham

  March 14, 2011

  Digital Strategy, Music, Startups

  API, Music, Rdio, Shazam, Spotify

• Spotify and Shazam hook up: logical like ABC

  What do you get when you combine a highly successful mobile music discovery service (Shazam) with an equally acclaimed music stream service (Spotify)? A “Play in Spotify” feature in Shazam that links directly to Spotify. How does it work? Use Shazam to discover music – With a Shazam app on your Android, Blackberry or iPhone […]

  marcabraham

  January 24, 2011

  Music, Startups

  Music, Shazam, socialmedia, Spotify