Wind-Up Inks Deal with Verizon’s V-Cast Music Service
Wind-Up Records has announced that it has licensed its entire catalog to the Verizon Wireless V Cast Music service. To date, the Verizon has inked deals with the four major labels, as well as independent music digital distributors IODA and The Orchard. A direct deal with an independent label like Wind-Up is a first, and one that gives hope to the other larger independent labels that don’t use digital aggregators but are...
Omnifone’s MusicStation Will Bow Tomorrow
Omnifone, the UK concern, announced that it has inked content deals with the four majors for a new service, dubbed MusicStation, that allows consumers to directly download an unlimited number of tracks to their cell phones for a small weekly fee. Omnifone said it signed partnerships with 30 mobile network operators with a customer base of 700 million subscribers in 40 countries. The Europe-Only service will launch tomorrow and offer 1...