It was reported this week that YouTube will be launching its much talked about subscription model for video channels soon, potentially as early as this week. According to Mashable, about 50 specialized channels with premium content will be included in the service, ...

This week Demi Lovato and her camp did something a bit novel to promote her new album – they offered fans the chance to unlock songs from her upcoming album a week before its debut if they "tweeted like crazy". The instructions were simply to retweet (in hashtag ...

Songza 3.0, the newest version of Songza's mobile app, debuted with some major updates last Thursday for iOS phones. Songza is a music streaming service known for its Concierge service, which curates music for users based on things on mood, time of day, and activity. ...

Last week the Wrap posted an interesting article on the 3 things that need to happen before big money is spent on video sites like YouTube, Hulu, and AOL. These sites have all begun to gain major audience bases, and subsequently have starting to bring in some major ...

According to sources close to the deal, DreamWorks Animation is very close to buying YouTube's would-be Nickelodeon network, Awesomeness TV. Awesomeness, which is geared towards next –generation teens and tweens, launched last summer and has continued to ...

Originally designed to help users find music that would match the mood of their favorite TV shows, Curation Station, which emerged over the weekend at TVnext Hack 2013, has now become an excellent source for anyone looking to find out what music specifically has been ...

Hypebot published an interesting article this week on why musicians nowadays should care about metadata. In a world where revenue from records continues to get increasingly smaller, it is important for artists to look to other revenue-generating assets to survive, ...

This week Nestivity, a social media startup, released a list of the top 25 most engaged brands on Twitter. The top brands are an eclectic group, including Notebook of Love, Disneywords, ESPN, PlayStation, and Disney. Factors that contributed to the success of these ...

Group listening service Soundrop launched new crowd-liked charts this week for Dubstep, Chill-out, Indie, and more. According to Evolver, they are "harvesting charts of the most starred music from all of their rooms in Spotify, and filtering them into genre charts ...