Kan YouTube Music Spotify & Apple verslaan? Een eerste indruk

Spotify is al tijden niet meer de enige app voor het streamen van muziek. Consumenten in Nederland kunnen ook gebruik maken van Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, JUKE en Napster. Daar is nu een nieuwe concurrent bijgekomen: YouTube Music, de opvolger van Goo…

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Ondanks feelgood onderzoek: óók radio moet compleet anders

Jongeren identificeren zich niet met Edwin Evers, Coen en Sander, Giel Beelen, of een andere bekende radio-dj, maar hebben hun eigen ‘helden’ via Spotify en YouTube. Daarom moet het radiolandschap zich de komende jaren opmaken voor grote veranderingen. Tv voelt nu de pijn, radio is next.   ‘Live radioluisteren blijft ongekend populair’, staat er boven […]

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Deezer Pulls Back Curtain On Growth Strategy: Adds 76 More Countries, Free Version, Social Features

deezerArmed with a fresh $130 million in funding from Warner Music owner Access Industries and Idinvest, music streaming company Deezer has this morning revealed more details on what it plans to do with that cash. The short version is as follows: Push on with Rest Of The World (ROW) domination — launching in 76 additional countries throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia — as the company continues scaling up its strategy of everywhere but the U.S., along with adding a marketing-driven free version of the service and ramping up its social features significantly.

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Deezer’s CEO Axel Dauchez On Cracking Into The U.S. And Why It’s Not Just Another Spotify

deezerDeezer, the web-based music streaming company that has just picked up $130 million in funding from Warner Music owner Access Industries and Idinvest, is gearing up for another announcement on Wednesday. There, it will lay out more details about what it plans to do with the cash injection — the largest ever for a French startup — and, we have heard, unveil a new user interface and other features.

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Better Late Than Never: Deezer Releases APIs To Court Developers In Latest Bid To Catch Up To Spotify

Deezer Open API graphicMusic streaming provider Deezer is one of the bigger (and older — it’s been around since 2006) services of its kind, with some 20 million registered users in 48 territories, and 15 million tracks in its catalog — but it has failed to capture mindshare in quite the same way as rival Spotify; and some might argue that this will make it harder in the long run for Deezer to keep up and grow.

Today sees the launch of the company’s latest attempt to turn that situation around: “Open Deezer,” a new set of APIs for iOS, Android and Java-based web apps, which it hopes will help it bring on a new raft of developers to create music services around its platform.

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