MediaNet Digital

Carphone Warehouse enters the cloud

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | August 3, 2010 4:15 pm | No Comments

Tags: Content Apps, Customer Profile, In The News, Streaming

Monday August 2, 2010 | musicweek.com

- By Ben Cardew -

The Carphone Warehouse has revealed full details of its new Music Anywhere service, which is potentially the first step to bringing cloud music into the mainstream in the UK.

The service, a collaboration with Catch Media which launches in Carphone Warehouse stores across the UK tomorrow (Tuesday), allows users to access their entire digital music collections remotely on their computers or mobile phones.

Using Catch Media’s Play Anywhere technology, the system “fingerprints” the user’s music collection – essentially making a note of what digital music they possess – and relates this to local partner MediaNet.

The user then installs the Music Anywhere app on his or her handset – it works on iPhones, BlackBerries and Android phones – allowing them to stream music remotely from MediaNet to their phone wherever they are in the world. (read more)

MediaNet+TuneCore: The Puzzle Pieces Start Coming Together…

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | June 10, 2010 8:50 am | No Comments

Tags: Customer Profile, In The News

Wednesday June 9, 2010 | digitalmusicnews.com

- By Paul Resnikoff -

Just last week, MediaNet Digital unveiled its Media Selector, an easily embeddable and customizable store geared towards independent artists.  But what if the artist’s music was missing?  Now, a partnership with Tunecore adds the critical content component.

MediaNet is currently focusing its model on decentralized content distribution, and smartly leveraging its major label partnerships to a range of … (read more)

Listen Now, Buy Now: MediaNet Reaches Out to Bloggers, Artists…

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | June 3, 2010 8:49 am | No Comments

Tags: In The News

Thursday June 3, 2010 | digitalmusicnews.com

By Paul Resnikoff

MediaNet Digital is now elbowing into the crowded direct-to-fan space, and also inviting bloggers to join the fun.  On Wednesday, the company unveiled ‘Media Selector,’ a tool that allows artists and bloggers to embed playlists and sell content directly to fans.  (read more)

MediaNet the Latest to Enter e-Book Distribution Marketplace

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | May 6, 2010 11:04 am | No Comments

Tags: In The News

Wednesday April 28, 2010 | publishersweekly.com

By Calvin Reid

Digital music and video distributor MediaNet announced plans to expand its digital content offerings with the launch of an e-book catalog and distribution service for as many as 200,000 digital book titles from a range of major publishers. The new service will initially offer titles in Adobe ePub and PDF format with plans to add additional formats… (read more)

MediaNet Introduces eBook Distribution Service

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | April 29, 2010 10:50 am | No Comments

Tags: In The News

Wednesday April 28, 2010 | mediabistro.com

By Craig Morgan Teicher

MediaNet, a company that has had big success in distributing catalogs of digital music, announced today that it is entering the eBook market with MediaNet Open eBook, an eBook catalog and distribution platform that will allow application developers and Web sites to sell eBooks… (read more)

Check out MediaNet Customers at SXSW, March 18-20

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | March 9, 2010 2:34 pm | No Comments

Tags: Customer Profile, In The News

If you’re going to SXSW this year, check out a few of MediaNet’s customers.  Hello Music has set up a Lounge at Filter’s ‘Cedar Street Showdown’.  The lounge will be open Thurs (3/18), Fri, and Sat from 11am-6pm daily.  Come on by.  And, MOG is throwing a free party on March 20^th at The Mohawk.  The Black Keys will headline with nearly a dozen other acts to follow.  Go here for more information.

MediaNet Customer WaTunes Launches the WaTunes Marketplace

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | February 22, 2010 10:59 am | No Comments

Tags: Customer Profile, In The News

DETROIT – February 22nd, 2010 – (http://www.watunes.com) WaTunes, the revolutionary social music service announced today a new music store service dubbed: The WaTunes Marketplace. WaTunes will offer its users millions of songs to discover, purchase, and share with their friends. In conjunction with WaTunes recent Streamline technology, users will be able to make easy buying decisions, while artists who use the WaTunes distribution service will be able to sell directly to their fans from WaTunes through its already established deal with MediaNet, the industry leading business-to-business provider of premium digital media content. (read more)

Today MediaNet customers Soundtrckr and MOG received some nice press on their respective services. Check it out.

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | February 18, 2010 8:33 am | No Comments

Tags: Customer Profile, In The News

Soundtrckr Unveils New Feature Updates at World Mobile Congress
Geosocial Music Service Now Offers Ability to Create Stations from Any Artist in Catalogue and Determine Listener Locations

San Francisco, CA and Barcelona, Spain (PRWEB) February 17, 2010 — Soundtrckr, iPhone application. Users can now create stations from any artist in the expansive soundtrckr catalogue, as well as determine the current location of their friends and listeners.

These feature enhancements to the soundtrckr service build on its ability to create personalized radio stations in any imaginable subgenre, and also optimize its location-aware social network to help users build connected communities of music fans. (read more)

MOG offers music subscription for $5 a month (USA TODAY)
Jefferson Graham, 02/17/10

BERKELEY, Calif. — David Hyman sees an opening in a market that has eluded some of the biggest names in tech, including Microsoft, RealNetworks and MTV.Hyman recently launched a music subscription service — MOG: All Access — at a time when music subscription services, once touted as the next big thing for online music, are withering. (read more)

MediaNet Web Retail Tools Come to Europe

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | February 1, 2010 12:16 pm | No Comments

Tags: Biz Updates, In The News

Monday February 1, 2010 | MusicWeek.com

By Eamonn Forde

Digital specialist MediaNet is launching its MN Open API and web components, which enable users to turn their websites into self-contained download stores, in Europe after debuting the tools in the US last year.

MediaNet CEO Alan McGlade describes his company as offering websites a “content concierge” service. It currently powers the technology behind a range of US sites including MOG, iLike and Fox.

“One of our earliest API integrations was on iLike,” McGlade says. “It originally had a buy button that sent you to either iTunes or Amazon. What happened was that customers were sent off on the Amazon purchase path and Amazon would try and sell them headphones and other products.”

MN Open was designed to keep users within a site’s pages and thereby increase the commerce opportunities. “Most users did not like being sent off from the site they were on,” explains McGlade. “This would result in a 90% abandonment rate.”

Because the MN Open technology contains the transaction steps within the same page, users just need to input their credit card information once.

The sites themselves only need to copy and paste sections of code into their site and the technology automates the process for them, meaning there is no need to manually create links. If a site such as Fox writes an entertainment story about a particular artist, MediaNet’s web components scan the article, turning the act’s name into a clickable link automatically. This can link the user to biographies and reviews as well as letting them purchase tracks.

“The good thing for a site such as Fox is that it keeps people on their site, it keeps them active and they get more page views,” says McGlade. “The minute someone reads about something, they can link to other content and go as deep into that as they want. They never have to leave the Fox site. They never even have to leave the article.”

MediaNet’s client base includes mobile application developers and online retailers such as major supermarkets and social networks.

“The other big customer base is record labels and aggregators,” adds McGlade. “One of our major clients is EMI. In partnership with us, it is looking to enable commerce on its own artist websites.”

With sites being measured on their dwell time and page impressions, MN Open claims to improve sites’ performance significantly.

“The benefit for sites is that they can create a richer experience for their users, ensure they stay on the site longer and generate more page views,” explains McGlade. “Increased time on site and increased page views result in increased advertising. Then, if the user transacts and buys an album, they share in that as well.”

MediaNet’s business model is based around taking a cut of transactions that its technology facilitates on sites.

The MediaNet platform supports other media types beyond music and the company is preparing to launch e-books. “We have a number of clients in both the US and the UK who are interested in providing music and e-books,” says McGlade of the service’s future.

Taking the example of how the iPhone led to an explosion in third-party app developers, McGlade believes MN Open has “the potential to significantly diversify the business beyond a few online retailers. Create a platform like this and the marketplace innovates. All sorts of new products and services will come to the market.”

Blair Schooff is returning to the company to look after its European expansion. He previously worked at BMG and AOL Music as well as launching music download stores for HMV, Virgin and Tesco among others.

MediaNet Digital Posts Some Aggressive Streaming, Download Gains…

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | 6:03 am | No Comments

Tags: In The News

Monday February 1, 2010 | Digital Music News

MediaNet Digital is the latest to post some aggressive year-over-year gains, though broader questions surround longer-term monetization. MediaNet has smartly chosen to spread its download and streaming functionality to almost every taker through APIs and portable web components, and that is perking gains. Specifically, downloads totaled 200 million in December of 2009, and on-demand streams reached 150 million. The download total represents a 124 percent year-over-year gain.