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MediaNet continues to build on its successful Mobile platform

Posted by MediaNet Product Team | May 7, 2012 11:02 am | No Comments

Tags: Biz Updates, Internet Radio, Product Updates, Streaming

For music services, 2011 proved to be the year of streaming, radio and mobile. We are now seeing signs that 2012 is continuing that trend and we are continuing to enhance our platform to make sure our partners have everything they need to create world-class music experiences.

MediaNet added over 20 partners last year who are offering a mobile version of their service. We also saw tremendous increases in streaming volume with the successes of MOG, songza and Turntable.fm . Overall we saw an increase of over 70% in streams to over ¾ billion streams in 2012.

“Our platform has provided significant advantages for our mobile streaming partners over the years as opposed to other DSPs just entering the streaming space” says Frank Johnson, MediaNet CEO. “Our experience in the last decade with cloud services as well as the availability of streaming optimized formats like AAC+ across multiple bit rates, continues to be a strength”.

We are continuing our push to keep our platform the best choice in streaming with the addition of a 48kbps AAC+ encoding of our catalog that provides a great low-bandwidth alternative while maintaining good audio quality.

Currently offered streaming encoding formats and bitrates:

Another way we make our partners successful is by ensuring a smoother, more responsive end user experience; all of these encodings are free of album art, which otherwise slows down play start time.

We anticipate another year of innovation in the digital music space and look forward to share our expertise with many great new services.

More about our streaming and radio services can be found on our Content Fulfillment page.

MediaNet at the ReThink Music Hackathon

Posted by mnopen | April 18, 2012 4:54 pm | No Comments

Are you going to Rethink Music this weekend? Or are you in the Boston area and want to bang out a cool music app? Register to the Hacker’s weekend (http://rethink.musichackathon.org/).
Oh and it’s FREE!

Always wanted to check out our platform? Well join us, our MNOpen API and all its features will be available alongside The Echo Nest’s and others. See why we are a 1-stop shop… Access our streaming, fulfillment, content guide, recommendations, trending and other APIs.

When:
April 21st & 22nd, 2012

Where:
Microsoft N.E.R.D.
1 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA

New in Australia…

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | April 17, 2012 12:08 pm | No Comments

Tags: Biz Updates, Customer Profile, In The News, Product Updates, Streaming

We are excited to see this happen! MOG and Telstra’s announcement makes great use of our Australian Catalog. We have been busy setting up and maintaining all the infrastructure of this catalog and rights for the Australian territory. Australians are about to get a great service. Telstra’s customers get an even sweeter deal.

We are forging a presence in a great market which shows a lot of promise. Australia has not had such a quality streaming service as MOG, yet has had a booming music industry in the last few years. We are thrilled to be there.

MOG Expands Service to Australia and Strikes Exclusive Partnership with Telstra
Music Fans Will Enjoy Unlimited, Unmetered Streaming, and One-Click Downloading of Songs, Albums and Playlists for the Ultimate Listening Experience.

BERKELEY, Calif., April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — MOG, the award- winning on-demand subscription music service and Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, today announced an exclusive partnership, and MOG’s first international deal, that will give Australians access to MOG’s vast catalog of music, making it the easiest way to instantly access ad-free, on-demand music from virtually anywhere.

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Exclusive: MOG Teams Up With Telstra To Launch In Australia

Rdio was the first international music streaming service to launch in Australia late 2011 and rumours of a Spotify launch have abounded for almost a year. Looks like MOG beat Spotify to the launch stakes and with Australia’s best Telco to boot. This is most definitely a major strike for MOG and its team as it is also for Telstra. Although this is just an announcement of the partnership between Telstra and MOG, TMV have been informed they are not very far of launching.

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Announcing Event Trends – Starting with the 2012 GRAMMY^®s

Posted by mnopen | February 6, 2012 11:11 am | No Comments

Today MediaNet is launching a new feature to its music artist trending product: Event Trends. Now get trending ranks within an event. Our trending scores stay the same, but you get more data within the context of a specific event, whether an award show or a music festival. Our first event is the 2012 GRAMMY^®s, stay tuned for the next event. We will be trending artists nominated or performing at events such as:

• The GRAMMY^®s
• The Academy of Country Music^® Awards (ACM)
• Coachella
• The CMA^® music festival
• The MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs)
• The AMAs
• And more…

You can see it in action on our Content Experience page for the GRAMMY^®s. The APIs are also available starting today.

UPDATE (Feb. 23): This list is no longer available. We’ll announce the next event list here, and also on Facebook and Twitter. Stay tuned. The list was a great experiment and showed our multi-source trending engine’s capabilities.

Please contact a sales representative for a trial of our Trending product. If you do not yet have an account Sign up here.

Congratulations to the MediaNet Content Team!

Posted by MediaNet Product Team | January 11, 2012 3:32 pm | No Comments

Tags: Content Updates

We would like to congratulate the MediaNet Content Team on their outstanding accomplishments in 2011. With over 5 million tracks added to the catalog in 2011 we reached a global catalog of 19 million tracks and our US catalog reached 14 million tracks. This pushes MediaNet to the top with tracks from all four major labels as well as the best indie catalog available. Thank you from everyone at MediaNet and here’s to another amazing year in 2012!

Browse the massive MediaNet catalog here!

MediaNet #TopOf2011 Top 5 “Staff Picks” Best New Artists

Posted by MediaNet Product Team | December 22, 2011 2:54 pm | No Comments

MediaNet #TopOf2011 Top 5 “Staff Picks” Holiday Songs

Posted by MediaNet Product Team | December 21, 2011 2:26 pm | No Comments

MediaNet #TopOf2011 staff pick for Top 5 Albums

Posted by MediaNet Product Team | 9:50 am | No Comments

As the office is turning up the holiday festivities, the music, which drives us all at MediaNet, has been cranked up. Our staff wanted to share with you a few of the lists we’ve put together…

Here is the first list: Top 5 “Staff Favorite” Albums of the year:

#1 “Nine Types of Light” by TV On The Radio

#2 “Bon Iver” by Bon Iver

#3 “Megafaun” by Megafaun

#4 “Unknown Mortal Orchestra” by Unknown Mortal Orchestra

#5 “Slave Ambient” by The War on Drugs

Follow us on Tweeter at @MNDigital to see the next list: Top 5 holiday songs played in the office.

MediaNet Launches Trending Product in beta.

Posted by MediaNet Product Team | December 9, 2011 3:05 pm | No Comments

Tags: API Updates, Product Updates, Social Media

As you have probably noticed by now, MediaNet has launched a new product called MediaNet Trending. Trending brings a great sense of “Now” to the relevance of music information. It facilitates user engagement whether in DMCA radio playlists, streaming playlists, or download pages.

Our proprietary Trending technology finds interesting music trends in many verticals like search activity, social activity, and play activity as opposed to simpler trending products out there just monitoring basic social information.

Trending fits with the rest of MediaNet’s product suite and is available to you via our industry leading digital content API.

Learn more about the Trending product here.
View it in action here.

Frank Johnson Joins MediaNet as CEO

Posted by MediaNet Public Relations | 2:44 pm | No Comments

Tags: Biz Updates

We are very excited about the addition of Frank to our team. Frank replaces interim CEO Stephen Barraclough. He brings great energy, experience and success in the digital content and entertainment data industry.

Read Frank’s Bio in the MediaNet Management Team page.