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Last.fm’s Indie Talks Stall, Labels Protest ‘Illegal’ Use Of Repertoire - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Jul 2008 12:45 PM PST

Independent labels are taking legal advice over what they say is illegal use of their repertoire by CBS’ (NYSE: CBS) Last.fm, after efforts to strike a royalty accord stalled, paidContent:UK…

Last.fm Finally Gets Major-Label Buy-In For Music Vids, UMG Signs On - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 17 Jun 2008 02:44 AM PST

Thirteen months after it announced its intention to create an MTV-beating service to offer the “long tail” of music videos, Last.fm has struck its first major-label partnership for the project.…

WMG Withholding Music From Last.fm, Wants More Payback - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 09 Jun 2008 02:14 AM PST

Last.fm has lost tracks from Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) artists after the label let its contract with the music site expire, complaining returns from the deal have “come up…

Last.fm ‘Next Generation’ Preview: New Design, Player, Podcasts - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 21 May 2008 05:31 AM PST

You’re seeing it here first... CBS Interactive’s (NYSE: CBS) Last.fm social music site is embarking on a wholesale reboot in a move that will pare down the design and add…

Last.fm Distributing In-House Video Via CBS Audience Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 09 May 2008 08:00 AM PST

Finally, some more video announcements from Last.fm. The social music site has gone live with an addition to Last.fm/Presents - a collection of video interviews with artists including Moby, Santogold…

AOL Radio Launches - Last.fm By Another Name - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 07 May 2008 11:26 AM PST

AOL (NYSE: TWX) has started replicating its recently launched Last.fm-powered AOL Radio in its European markets, starting with France, Germany and the UK. Despite living at radio.aol.co.uk, the site is…

Industry Moves: Last.fm Taps Ex-Xbox Brand Manager For First Marketing VP - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 22 Apr 2008 07:23 AM PST

CBS (NYSE: CBS) has named former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Xbox brand manager Orlena Yeung as Last.fm’s first marketing VP - a post we reported the company would create last week.…

CBS Working Last.fm Hard In US, Appointing Chief Marketer - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Apr 2008 08:18 AM PST

We already knew CBS (NYSE: CBS) was setting its $280 million social music engine hard to work in its native US. Now come more indications as to Last.fm’s growing role…

Last.fm’s Free Music ‘Boosts Sales’; Unlimited Services ‘To Kick In By 2012’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 09 Apr 2008 08:35 AM PST

Last.fm claims its 12-week-old free, full-track music streams have resulted in 119 percent more CD and download sales through its Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) click-through partnership. Some of that is attributable…

CBS Radio Getting Closer To Last.fm; Partnership For Streaming - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 01 Apr 2008 08:32 AM PST

CBS (NYSE: CBS) Radio is to begin adding its streams to Last.fm, in the first real integration of the social music site with its new owner since the $280 million…

London Mixer Multimedia Report: Q&A With Martin Stiksel, Last.fm Co-Founder - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 28 Mar 2008 01:17 AM PST

Ten months after CBS (NYSE: CBS) bought social music engine Last.fm for $280 million, how is the east London-based site fitting in to a US media megacorp? “We are getting…

Industry Moves: Google Regional Head Jumps To Last.fm - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 27 Mar 2008 07:55 AM PST

As if to provide added discussion fodder for our Q&A with co-founder Martin Stiksel this evening, Last.fm has just taken Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) northern and central Europe strategic partnerships head…

Tonight’s ContentNext London Mixer: Q&A With Last.fm’s Martin Stiksel Added; Some Tickets Left - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 25 Mar 2008 11:48 AM PST

An added reason to join us for tonight’s UK mixer: a Q&A with Martin Stiksel, one of the three co-founders of Last.fm. As you know, Stiksel and company sold to…

Last.fm Ramps Up On Widgets With Netlog, Sofia’s Diary - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 20 Mar 2008 10:48 AM PST

Multi-lingual pan-European social net upstart Netlog is making a song and dance today about letting its users add Last.fm’s radio widget to their profile pages. If there’s a big deal,…

Broadband Content Bits: Last.fm Powers Bild, Nokia Music Launch, More iTunes TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 04 Mar 2008 02:33 AM PST

- Last.fm: The social music site is to power an online radio service for Germany’s Bild.de newspaper. Bild Radio makes several genres of music available as well as search-based radio…

Last.fm Gets Half Of Users Off-Site, Targets US Market - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 28 Feb 2008 09:40 AM PST

Nineteen million people use Last.fm through off-site widgets and third-party hacks, the company says (via release). That’s almost as many as the entire 21 million on-site monthly user base from…

Last.fm Agrees To Pay Musicians For Web Radio Streams - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 06 Feb 2008 08:07 AM PST

Last.fm tells us it has agreed to pay performance royalties to the PPL collection society for songs it streams over its web radio service in the UK. It’s a somewhat…

CBS Will Try To Convert Last.fm Acquisition To Video Value - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 22 Jan 2008 10:54 AM PST

One of the questions that comes up repeatedly in chats about CBS: what is the company doing to move last year’s $280 million (£143 million) Last.fm acquisition beyond buzz into…

CES: Last.fm’s First Hardware Tie-Up Aims For Home Stereo Scrobbling - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jan 2008 08:18 AM PST

Music tracker and recommendation engine Last.fm today used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to announce its first partnership with a hardware maker - and its first assault on…

Industry Moves: Musicmobs Developer Joins Last.fm As VP, Closes Site - 1 Comment
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 20 Nov 2007 09:41 AM PST

Last.fm is hiring Toby Padilla as VP of desktop and client software and, with it, the developer is closing his Musicmobs website after four years. Musicmobs had operated in Last.fm’s…

Last.fm Adds Music Videos Mashed From YouTube - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 23 Oct 2007 04:22 AM PST

Last.fm is adding music videos from YouTube to pages corresponding to individual tracks. A couple of Last.fm-inspired mashups had already begun matching YouTube videos to songs off-site; now CBS’ (NYSE:…

Industry Moves: Last.fm Bags Yahoo’s Agency Sales Head For European Expansion - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 18 Oct 2007 02:39 AM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) UK and Ireland’s head of agency sales Miles Lewis is following commercial director Blake Chandlee out the door and is joining Last.fm. Lewis is becoming the music…

@ Mipcom: CBS’ Moonves: We’ll Monetise T-Shirt-Wearing Last.fm With More Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 09 Oct 2007 03:50 AM PST

In a press conference at Mipcom here in Cannes, CBS (NYSE: CBS) president Leslie Moonves added more detail to his view from yesterday on Last.fm’s worth to CBS: ”Our next…

@ Mipcom: CBS Sees TV Communities In Last.fm; High-Level Talks This Week - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 08 Oct 2007 10:55 AM PST

CBS (NYSE: CBS) president Leslie Moonves will visit Last.fm in London this week - and is likely to emerge having developed plans to replicate the social network’s music prowess across…

Last.fm Gets SonyBMG Music Deal; Majority Of Majors Now On Board - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 09 Jul 2007 06:44 AM PST

Last.fm has signed a content agreement with Sony BMG, meaning it can now carry music from three of the four major labels. Asked if this deal was helped by Last.fm’s…