Google may sink $50M into music video service Vevo

In what would become a very expensive game of musical chairs, Google is interested in making a $50 million investment into music video service Vevo.

Soundrop brings music ‘listening rooms’ to Facebook

Social music service Soundrop announced this morning that it has launched listening rooms on Facebook, which means that artists -- and fans -- can create social music spaces where they can listen to music together, chat, and vote on what they want to hear next.

Roku gets a major dose of music: adds new Spotify & Vevo channels

Roku has added two new channels to its vast library that should make music fans very happy.

YouTube is like Agent Smith in the Matrix: More, more, more

TV is moving to the web, and no company is benefitting more from that than Google. It's really not a competition.

Vevo’s mobile traffic up 463% since July of last year

Music video company Vevo continues to experience its fastest growth on mobile.

The service accumulated more than 1.3 billion streams from mobile devices in the second quarter of 2012. Vevo grew its monthly mobile active users by 33 percent sequentially …

Music and videos coming to Ouya via Vevo

We haven't heard much about the non-gaming functionality of the Ouya. Today we learned that the music video-streaming app Vevo will be available on the android-based console.

VEVO gives the music lovers (and the mobile web) a big, mushy kiss

The debate over native apps versus mobile web rages on: which is better, which is more accessible, which is more customer-friendly.

VEVO just provided its answer by giving 50 million music lovers in the U.S. and Canada access to the …

Vevo must decide: Facebook and Google compete for a stake in the music video site

Two of the biggest companies in the tech industry, Facebook and Google, are interested in grabbing a piece of popular music video site Vevo.

The tech giants are competing for an equity stake in Vevo as well as a lucrative …

Video apps seeing strong growth with Facebook Timeline

First, it was the lifestyle apps. Then, it was the media apps. Now, video apps are reporting huge growth numbers from launching Timeline-friendly features for Facebook.

Today, Facebook issued some interesting stats from a slew of video companies, including heavy …

Vevo music video service nets 3.5B monthly views after relaunch

Less than two weeks after a relaunch featuring deeper ties to Facebook, music video service Vevo is seeing a record number of video views per person and is now netting 3.5 billion total views a month.

Vevo, the independent music …

3,000 Facebook Timeline apps later, Foursquare, The Onion, VEVO and more hit the scene

Coinciding with the South by Southwest festival in Austin, a slew of major companies are finally offering apps for Facebook’s new Timeline.

The new Timeline apps include Foursquare, VEVO, The Onion, Fandango, and others.

The new apps join more than …

Musicians connected with Facebook in 2011, top 250 grab over 2B likes (infographic)

Facebook is a hub for many things such as looking at photos, updating friends and family on your life and stalking just about anyone. Since it’s September developer conference f8, Facebook has also become a go-to for media including music …

Music video site Vevo eyes news and features with new editorial director

Vevo, the music video site jointly created by YouTube and music labels, is eyeing a new editorial focus with the hire of veteran journalist Jim Macnie as its editorial director.

Macnie, who previously served as managing editor of VH1.com for …

Myspace clarifies its strategy: wants to be the Hulu of music

Social network Myspace clarified its future strategy of focusing on music at an advertising event Monday.

Myspace’s new owner, Specific Media, said it wants Myspace to become the number one online community music destination — the Hulu of Music, according …

Facebook makes a run at YouTube video dominance

What do you do when you’re already the number one website for sharing photos? Go after videos. In a report released today by online measurement firm comScore, Facebook ranked as the third largest website for viewing videos online in the …