SoundExchange, the group that collects performance fees on behalf of hundreds of major and independent record companies, said Tuesday that it would give “small” Webcasters the option of paying “below market” royalty rates on the songs they play. Their offer would keep royalty rates essentially the same as they are under a 2002 law called […]

Gameloft has expanded the range of iPod games with Lost, a game based on the hit television series. The game is designed to work on 5th-generation iPods, and is $4.99 to download. Description: Join your favourite castaways in their quest to seek truth and survive in the official iPod game of the hit television series, […]

A new plugin for Apple TV called “A Series of Tubes”, now in advanced hacking stage, promises to bring YouTube to Apple’s media set-top box. The YouTube plugin isn’t available yet, but its author “XDog” has published a video that shows how it will work: The plugin delivers a number of playlists, including spotlighted YouTube […]

Wallstrip, the Rocketboom of financial news, has been purchased by CBS Interactive for a price in the millions, with a multi-year commitment to continue show and enhance its site. “You can make money from blogging!” said Wallstrip’s Howard Lindzon. The show, described as “Cramer with breasts” by its creator, is a short (about four minute) […]

XM users appear to be experiencing a massive outage. According to reports, one of the XM’s satellites is down, and its repeaters are down due to a “software update.” An XM Spokesman has provided this statement regarding the issue: “We are experiencing a temporary degraded performance issue, which has affected some of our customers. We […]

The UK Podcasters Association, a non-profit organization promoting podcasting, has announced that it has come to an agreement with AIM, the UK-based Association of Independent Music, which allows members preferential access to AIM’s podcast license. The AIM podcast license covers over 30,000 tracks licensed by the UK independent music industry and includes labels such as […]

It looks like the good people at Soundtrack.net have figured out one of the tried and true ways to get covered by Podcasting News: do something that involves pirates and podcasting. Their latest podcast looks at the music for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. In our longest podcast to date, SoundtrackNet talks with […]

Napster today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2007. Losses continue at the company, despite increased revenues. Net revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 grew to $29.1 million, up from $28.4 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2007. Net loss for the fourth quarter of […]

ESPN today launched a set of free, downloadable video podcasts available daily. The first video podcast offerings include: a downloadable version of the popular ESPN.com SportsCenter Minute; the “Big Finish” from ESPN‚Äôs Pardon The Interruption (PTI); the “First Word” segment from ESPN‚Äôs Around The Horn; ESPN Digital Media‚Äôs “Fantasy Focus” daily original fantasy sports news […]

The New York Times has an interesting article today about how the CW network plans to offer advertisers two more ways to try holding the attention of viewers during commercial breaks. One idea is to run quickie commercials of only five seconds each. The other is to schedule a series with no commercial breaks at […]