November 21, 2014

YouTube’s Music Key Jumps on the Ad-Free Subscription Bandwagon

Last week YouTube announced the launch of Music Key, a new premium subscription service that will let subscribers stream high-quality, ad-free music, videos, covers, playlists, remixes and more. Music Key will differentiate itself from services like Spotify and Pandora with unique features. For $9.99 a month, subscribers can listen to music with or without video, receive access to millions of official videos, album tracks, concert clips, etc., and listen to music offline or while using other…

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Subscription Streaming Spending Tops 1 Billion in Q3 of 2014

No corporate demise of the past ten years was more evident than that of Blockbuster Video. The stores that were once ubiquitous across America were gone seemingly overnight, killed by the convenience of Netflix. While Blockbuster was the most famous casualty of the switch from physical to digital media, the numbers continue to grow favorably for digital streaming subscriptions. In a recent release by The Digital Entertainment Group, the year-over-year numbers for the third quarter show a…

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