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• iMeem: From Tens Of Millions In Funding To Fire Sale

  PaidContent - 2009-11-18

  As this is being written, negotiations between MySpace Music and social music startup iMeem are still underway with issues including how much staff would make the move possibly engineering and sales, whether cofounder and CEO Dalton Caldwell would come along a la iLike’s Partovi brothers—now execs with MySpace, possible...

  Tags: Warner Music Group Corp., MySpace, iMeem, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Entertainment, Music, Mobile, Search, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, News Corp., Staci D. Kramer

• Warner Music Hands Over Video Ad Sales To Outrigger

  PaidContent - 2009-10-08

  Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) has a vision for how it’s going to make money with digital content this time around—and it includes a few key tech platforms and sales partners. On the sales end in the U.S., the company is giving the reins to Outrigger Media, a New...

  Tags: Video Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Video, Warner Music Group Corp., WMG, Outrigger Media, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Corporate Communications, Sales, Marketing, Entertainment, Music, Companies, Google, YouTube, Tameka Kee

• Report: Warner, YouTube Reach A Deal?With Talks For Vevo, Too

  PaidContent - 2009-09-25

  Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) and YouTube have finally negotiated a deal that will bring music videos from artists like Madonna and U2 back to the video site, AdAge is reporting. Warner pulled all of its artists clips from YouTube in December, after the two companies could not agree...

  Tags: Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Warner Music Group Corp., Music Video, Sales Strategy, Corporate Communications, Sales Force Management, Sales, Marketing, Entertainment, Music, Social Media, Video, Companies, Google, YouTube, Tameka Kee

• The WMG Reinvention Continues?But Is Time Running Out?

  PaidContent - 2009-08-31

  Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is continuing to dial back towards its content and marketing roots, a shift reiterated Friday by Atlantic Records GM & EVP of Marketing and Creative Media Livia Tortella.  “We’re an entertainment company, we’re about music.  We’re not a technology company,” Tortella commented during a...

  Tags: CD, Artist, Warner Music Group Corp., Marketing Research, Marketing, Entertainment, Music, Digital Music News

• Universal Music Buys International Rights To Sinatra Albums

  PaidContent - 2009-08-20

  Universal Music has purchased the international rights to Frank Sinatra albums from the Sinatra Family and Warner Music, the Financial Times reports. Under the terms of the deal, Universal can reissue albums that Sinatra released for Reprise, the record label he founded in 1960 and later sold to Warner...

  Tags: Album, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp., Entertainment, Music, Companies, Vivendi, Joseph Tartakoff

• Warner Expands Use Of Cisco's Eos For Artist Sites

  PaidContent - 2009-08-13

  Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) signed on for the Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) Eos white-label social networking service in a dip-the-toe way in January. Now the label is putting the whole foot in the water by expanding its deal beyond sites for two artists to five, promising to add a...

  Tags: Revenue, Ning, Site, Cisco Systems Inc., Warner Music Group Corp., Eos, WMG, Edgar Bronfman, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Entertainment, Music, Companies, Warner Music Group, Staci D. Kramer

• Ticketmaster moves to bolster global interests

  Financial Times - 2009-08-10

  Ticketmaster Entertainment has recruited Roger Ames, a former senior executive at both Warner Music and EMI, to oversee the expansion of its fragmented international business on the eve of its proposed merger with Live Nation.The move for Mr Ames, whose 34-year career in the record industry included five years...

  Tags: EMI Group Plc., Merger, Ticketmaster Corp., Warner Music Group Corp., Entertainment, CEO, Ticketmaster Entertainment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Company News, Financial Times

• Earnings: WMG Losses Widen; Digital Music Revs Up 5 Percent

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  While Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) certainly has been trying to make headway as music listening becomes more digital, it couldn't fight the wider economy and the downward spiral of physical record sales. The company's loss widened to $37 million ($0.25 per share) from $9 million ($0.06 cents per...

  Tags: Revenue, Loss, Earnings, Digital Music, Warner Music Group Corp., Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Entertainment, Music, Money, Companies, Warner Music Group, David Kaplan

• Earnings: Warner Music's Q4 Profits Rise; Digital Up 28 Percent

  Content Next - 2008-11-25

  Finally some bit of good news in the music industry: Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) reported its Q308 earnings today, and its income rose to $6 million, or 4 cents a share, from $5 million, or 3 cents a share from the year-ago quarter. Stunningly, analysts were expecting a...

  Tags: Revenue, Earnings, Warner Music Group Corp., Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Entertainment, Music, Money, Rafat Ali

• Benetton picks music exec as new CEO

  - 2007-03-16

  MILAN AFP — Italian clothing company Benetton announced on Friday that it had appointed a director from US record label Warner Music as its new chief executive. Caccia Dominioni, 52, is to take over on June 1 to replace Silvano Cassano, who resigned late last year after a disagreement...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CEO, entertainment, MARKETING, music, Warner Music Group Corp.