Mobile music service provider Groove Mobile and Canadian operator MTS Allstream have entered into an alliance. The alliance paves the way for Groove Mobile to bring its mobile music service and music discovery features to MTS customers. The MTS Mobile Music Store, powered by Groove, will provide full-track music downloads direct to mobile handsets, access to multiple charts, downloading album art, shop and play, browsing and previews. The music service will also support dual downloading in which customers purchase music over the air and download a copy of the track to their handset and get a copy delivered to their personal computer. Customers will have the flexibility of playing the track on their laptop or computer, transferring it onto an MP3 player or burning it onto a CD. In addition, the new MTS Mobile Music Store provides music fans with easy access to the IODA Free Track Chart, which consists of four to five tracks that change every week. The MTS Mobile Music Store will come preloaded on the Samsung A920, A900, M500, M610 and LG Fusic handsets with more handsets in future. The Store will feature music tracks from artists on the Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, IODA and The Orchard labels.
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Groove Mobile, MTS Allstream team up for music store
- July 16th, 2007
- 2:26 pm
Groove Mobile Launches Over-the-Air Dual Download Service for Music Videos with 3UK
- June 17th, 2007
- 6:30 pm
Groove Mobile, the world’s leading mobile music commerce platform, announced today that it will add music videos to its successful mobile music offering with mobile media company, 3, in the UK. In addition to over the air (OTA) downloads, the expanded video offering will allow users to dual download to a PC videos they purchased via cell phone.
The Groove Mobile powered video download service will also allow customers who purchase videos OTA to receive an optimized mobile version of the video directly to their handset and have the option to download a higher quality WMV file of the video to their personal computers. Customers then have the flexibility of playing the videos on their PC or laptop or transferring them to their media center.
“We are pleased to expand our platform to include support for music videos, which are poised to be the next big seller in mobile content,” said Adam Sexton, Chief Marketing Officer of Groove Mobile. “By providing a unified shopping experience for audio and video, and enabling a combined mobile and PC solution, 3 UK and Groove Mobile continue to push the envelope and define expectations for the ultimate mobile music experience.”
The service will launch with 1,000 videos, three times the available catalogue of the previous mobile-only service. The expanded video music store will include music videos from all four major record labels: Universal Music Group, EMI, Warner Music Group and Sony BMG, in addition to leading independent music labels. To facilitate music discovery and cross-selling opportunities the new store presents unique song pages where users can access both related audio tracks and videos.
The cost for video downloads will be GBP 1.49, with audio tracks still at GBP 1.29 for existing 3 customers. In the event that a customer loses or deletes a video, they are able to re-download the video up to three times, free of charge.
“Groove Mobile has been an outstanding partner for 3UK, and we are pleased to expand this partnership with this best of breed OTA video service,” said Pete Northing, Director of Content Services of 3UK. “The unified Groove Mobile platform will allow us to take full advantage of cross selling opportunities, and take music video sales to new heights.”
Groove Mobile began powering the 3 Music Store in September of 2006. Groove Mobile also powers the award winning Sprint Music Store in the United States.
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7.5m Groovy tunes
- January 10th, 2007
- 8:44 am
Mobile-Ent writes…Groove Mobile delivered 7.5 million full track music downloads in the last quarter of 2006.
The US based mobile music provider powers services for over a dozen operators across North America, Europe and New Zealand. They include Bell Canada, 3 UK and Sprint and boast a collective potential subscriber base of over 85 million.
Adam Sexton, chief marketing officer of Grrove Mobile, attributed much of the success to the surge in popularity of music-enabled phones. “Robust sales of music handsets are driving mobile music downloads,” he said. “Around the world consumers are embracing the music phone as their preferred player, and using it to download songs directly.”
Groove services, which include P2P sharing, personalised music recommendations, streaming radio and more, are compatible with the ‘big five’ manufacturers’ device range.
The figures reflect a buoyant digital music market that is starting to reverse the recent decline in overall annual revenues. According to a new report from Portio Research, annual sales of digital and offline music are predicted to reach $38.8 billion by 2011. It also says over half of the one billion mobile handsets shipped in 2007 will have music playing capabilities, and that music phones will outnumber standalone MP3 players by approximately 5 to 1 in 2012.
As these conclusions were emerging the mobile handset sector was rushing out still more devices. As reported by Mobile Entertainment earlier today, Sony Ericsson has added another entry-level Walkman phone, the W200, which can store up to 37 full length tracks.
