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MySpace Launching A Payment System: Concert Tickets, Merch, Ringtones Coming Soon

by Jason Wilk on November 8, 2008

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  • MySpace COO Amit Kapur revealed at the Web 2.0 Summit that they are working on their own own virtual gift service as well as a payment system that MySpcae App developers can add to their offering.
  • The virtual gifts thing is a no brainer, but the payment system will be interesting. Does it mean developers will be creating apps that are good enough to charge for? Or does the payment system mean they will have an in-house ecommerce infrastructure for rolling out their own Merchandise, Concert Tickets, and Ringtones applications that are supposedly coming soon. I think the latter.

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Android To Take Down The Ringtone Biz?

by Jason Wilk on October 24, 2008

  • Jamster is the annoying ringtone company that has been making a killing the last 5 years, blowing the ringtone business into a billion dollar industry.
  • It has been one of my biggest surprises that no one has marketed an easy to use free software that lets you edit and deploy a song onto one’s mobile device. (maybe it exists, but something is keeping it from going mainstream)
  • The smash hit iTunes app store proved that Jamster’s mobile game business will be in jeoprady once platform standardization is ubiquitous.
  • Now, the Android App market has launched with the first ever approved Free Ringtone Editor, which comes preloaded in the app store and does exactly what it sounds like.
  • Currently the recording industry makes $6.8B a year on ringtones and is projected to become an $11.6B industry by 2010!
  • Will a simple ringtone editor app on smart phones be the catalyst to take down the new giant money maker for the music biz? At least Jamster deserves it after making me watch 3 years of commercials that play a god awful pimp cup remix songs, prompting me to key in a number if I want it as my ringtone.
  • It will be interesting to see how the 2 million G1 Android phones that come out this week begin to affect ringtone profits, and how soon it will be before there is a litigous situation claiming that a ringtone is a seperate entity? Look pal, if I own the song already, I shouldn’t have to pay for it again to have it as my ringtone.

What do you think will happen?

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Verisign Turns Its Jamba Into Juice, Sells Stake To News Corp

by glu on October 13, 2008

  • Verisign purchased German mobile content company Jamba in 2004 for $273M. Sold 51% stake for $187.5M in May 2007 joint venture deal with Fox Mobile Entertainment.
  • The remaining 49% has been sold to News Corp for an additional $200M.
  • Jamba aka Jamster made a splash with its ringtone business (Crazy Frog) but a series of lawsuits brought the company back to earth rather quickly. Apparently, people prefer to be told when they’re opting in for a subscription service.
  • Verisign says:
  • We’re laser-focused on our three businesses (identity and authentication, SSL and naming)…Our involvement in mobile content helped us recognize what we’re good at.

While this makes sense for Verisign (economic downturn->focus on the core) what would News Corp/Myspace want with a washed out ringtone company.

MN

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MySpace Music Tonight @ 9pm. Here Are The Facts

by Jason Wilk on September 24, 2008

  • MySpace has announced that Universal, Warner, Sony and EMI are all officially on board for the launch of the new Music.MySpace.com tonight at 9pm.
  • The site will allows users to stream any song ever published for free, although with advertising integrated.
  • MySpace users can create a playlist of 100 songs to be played on their page with easy sharing, download (Amazon) and ringtone capabilities (Jamster)
  • Advertisers lined up for the launch to support the music streaming are McDonalds, Sony Pictures, Toyota and State Farm.
  • Michael Arrington seems very excited about the new offering, but I think it’s another music site I won’t bother going on to. Here’s my reason’s why I think it will fail.

What do you think will happen?

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