IgnitAd Gets Seed Funding for Online Ad Optimization

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Mark Hefflinger
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Jerusalem,
Israel –
IgnitAd, a provider of online ad optimization services, announced on Tuesday
that it has raised an undisclosed sum of seed funding, from DFJ Tamir Fishman
Ventures and Jerusalem Venture Partners’ JVP Media Studio.

Israel-based IgnitAd
is also currently being incubated at JVP Media Studio.

"IgnitAd’s
innovation will take the online advertising market forward by adding automation
to the buying and selling process, while giving web publishers and advertisers
the control and visibility to ensure better match between them, protect their
brand integrity and increase their performance." said Shai Saul, a general
partner at DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures.

 

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http://ignitad.com

MySpace, SoundExchange Team to Source Unpaid Artists

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Mark Hefflinger
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Cannes, France – News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace
social network has partnered with royalty collection and distribution agency
SoundExchange to search for artists who may be owed royalties for their works
but could not be located. MySpace said it has already identified 25,000 artists
who are registered on MySpace but not with SoundExchange, who are collectively
owed more than $14 million in royalties for streaming of their songs on
Internet and satellite radio.


 

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Shazam ID Service Driving 300,000 Song Purchases Daily

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Mark Hefflinger
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Cannes, France – Mobile music discovery service Shazam
is generating 300,000 track purchases each day from users of the service, CEO
Andrew Fisher said at the MidemNet conference in Cannes, France,
Music Ally reported. The Shazam service lets its 50 million users hold their
phones up to a speaker, which then sends data to Shazam and the user in turn receives
song, artist and album information, along with links to buy the track. Fisher
said Shazam now reports a 13% conversion rate, for those purchasing a track
after tagging it using Shazam.


 

Related Links:
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(Music Ally)

http://www.shazam.com

Authorities Raid Home of EliteBits File-Sharing Admin

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Mark Hefflinger
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Los Angeles
– The home of the operator of EliteBits, a BitTorrent file-sharing tracker
site, was raided on Friday by a representative from a Danish court accompanied by
several representing anti-piracy agency Antipiratgruppen, TorrentFreak
reported. The admin, known as "Laeborg," told TorrentFreak that the
men who came to his house informed him that his bank account was traced from
donations made to EliteBits. The men took screenshots of his computer of staff
profiles, and lists of top downloaders and uploaders — and also asked for the
user database.


 

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(TorrentFreak)

CEO of French Streaming Service Deezer Ousted by Investors

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Mark Hefflinger
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Paris
– Deezer, the France-based streaming music service, has seen its co-founder and
CEO Jonathan Benassaya forced out by investors, TechCrunch reports. The
investors were reportedly not satisfied with the performance of the company
with relation to ad sales and the recent switch to a $14 per month subscription
model. Deezer reportedly counts 10 million users in Europe,
but was only able to convert 10,000 to paying customers over three months.


 

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http://snipurl.com/u6xmd
(TechCrunch)

http://www.deezer.com

Male-Focused Network Break Media Forms Game Studio

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Mark Hefflinger
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Los Angeles
– Break Media, the operator of a network of websites targeting young males,
announce on Monday that it has established a new video development studio.
Located in China,
the studio will focus on social games, and is currently working on six original
titles; its first game, "MMA FightPicker," is due to launch next
month. The game will be featured on Break’s CagePotato.com site and also be accessible
on Facebook. Break says its stable of sites reach more than 100 million men
worldwide each month.


 

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http://breakmedia.break.com

HarperCollins Debuts Inkpop Web Community for Teen Writers

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Mark Hefflinger
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New York – HarperCollins
Publishers on Monday launched inkpop, which it says is the first interactive
writing platform for teens backed by a major U.S. publisher. The site combines
community publishing, user-generated content and social networking elements
"to connect rising stars in teen literature with talent-spotting readers
and publishing professionals." Since a soft launch in the fourth quarter,
the site has attracted more than 10,000 members and nearly 11,000 submissions,
spanning novels, poems, essays and short stories.


 

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http://www.inkpop.com

RightsFlow Inks Deals with PRS for Music, PIAS

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Mark Hefflinger
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Cannes, France – RightsFlow, a provider of bulk
mechanical licensing and royalty services for the music industry, on Monday
announced agreements with PRS for Music, which represents 65,000 U.K.
songwriters, and PIAS Entertainment Group, which provides distribution for 200
record labels. RightsFlow will now identify and license PRS for Music works for
mechanical uses in the U.S.
The company’s deal with PIAS will see RightsFlow provide mechanical licensing
and royalty payment service for all of the company’s 200 distributed labels.


 

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http://www.prsformusic.com

http://www.pias.com

http://www.rightsflow.com

Gracenote Gets Access to Pre-Release Song Data for ID Services

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Mark Hefflinger
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Cannes, France – Gracenote, a unit of Sony
that provides song identification and media database services, announced on Monday
that it has signed deals with the four major record labels and hundreds of top
independents that will allow it to receive pre-release song data. The company
said obtaining this track listing and cover art data prior to release means
that services using Gracenote will be able to offer that data to consumers as
soon as the music is publicly released. Gracenote’s service currently catalogs
more than 100 million tracks and 8 million CDs.


 

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http://www.gracenote.com

SoundCloud, Hype Machine Team to Serve Music to Bloggers

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Mark Hefflinger
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London
– SoundCloud, the provider of a music distribution platform for labels and
artists, on Monday announced a partnership with music blog aggregator The Hype
Machine. The deal will allow artists and labels to serve tracks directly to
bloggers through SoundCloud, via embeddable SoundCloud players on their sites. The
Hype Machine will detect these players across blogs that it aggregates, and
allow tracks to be streamed on its own site. Artists and labels will then also be
able to access data on the music, including number of plays and which blogs
picked up their tracks. Initial partners include Domino Records and artists
including Massive Attack.


 

Related Links:
http://soundcloud.com/press/releases/2010/01/25/hypem

http://hypem.com

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