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Digital wars: YouTube to sell music, Myspace tries but fails
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Just as über-popular video streaming service YouTube announced it would start flogging the music behind the movies, social networking behemoth Myspace was forced to shut down its own digital outlet after "critical portions" of the site went down.
Essentially an affiliate tie-up, YouTube's scheme will introduce a 'purchase' option next to its plethora of music content, redirecting users to either iTunes or Amazon to part with their pounds. For now, only material on the Universal and EMI labels will be available, but plans are afoot to expand the feature, and also to add the ability to buy relevant gig tickets.
Myspace, meanwhile, launched their own bespoke download service last month in the US but were forced to close its doors temporarily yesterday after streaming, playlist and download services went a bit wrong.
Users were greeted by the following message:
"We are making some minor changes to this section so please bear with us until we can get it back online"
DiScuss: do you trust Myspace as a digital music vendor? Or will you be clicking through on YouTube instead? Remember we now have similar links on DiS album reviews too...
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interestingly
a guy i accosted from myspaz at in the city was saying that only 5% of their business is music?!
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I trust them (myspace and youtube)
and I don't see why any body shouldn't but the fact of the matter, as far as I am concerned at least, is that I simply prefer to go into an actual shop and buy CDs from a real person and probably always will.
I don't think selling music this way will take off particularly. If they want to buy a track they'll just go straight to iTunes or whatever downloading service they use. Same goes for gig tickets. People go on to youtube to look at stuff for free, seems like a bit backward thinking to me but then what do I know? Technology confuses me for the most part.
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5%?
Is the rest all banner ads?
I wouldn't buy from MySpax or YouTube. They can fuck off.
I'll continue to buy physical and the occasional MP3 from the usual big outlets.
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me
I am just glad that cider will never be digitised and so I will never have to agonise over a really crucial decision like should I buy that online or from a pub...
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Nice idea but...
For YouTube to be able to sell music, consumers will have to find the official video amongst all the other incarnations of that title on the site. Why wouldn't they just go to a store where you can play the track in the first place?
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