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Peoplesound.com - A music revolution?
News Sites like UK based Peoplesound.com, -- offering music online by new artists beginning this autumn -- believe they can topple the monopoly of major record companies and enable more bands to make a name for themselves.
[July 19, 1999, 12:31]
Empire-building Vitaminic swallows Peoplesound
News Digital music dot-com Vitaminic's goal of building a global site moved a step forward today with the acquisition of rival MP3 download site Peoplesound. The takeover will cost Vitaminic just under £21m, which it is paying in newly issued shares to...
[June 8, 2001, 17:10]
EMI enters the world of MP3
News World's largest music publisher, EMI, and peoplesound.com, Europe's largest free music download Internet site, have announced Tuesday a partnership to offer music publishing contracts to the most promising song-writers debuting on peoplesound.com...
[September 20, 2000, 9:41]
Best-ever site for online music?
News Following an intense off-line advertising campaign, online music portal Peoplesound.com launches Tuesday with music from 1000 new bands available for free download in MP3. So what's new about Peoplesound?
[October 19, 1999, 11:38]
Vitaminic launch gets UK MP3 artists in a spin
News Although similar to a number of other MP3 download sites, including MP3.com and Peoplesound, Vitaminic also offers UK artists the chance to post their own tracks for download from the outset. Gianluca Dettori, CEO of Vitaminic, said that there was...
[September 2, 1999, 10:54]
Online music trading will survive Napster, say experts
News The music industry's victory over Napster is a short one," said Ernesto Schmidt, chief executive of Peoplesound, which distributes online music by emerging bands. Napster is going to die, but you can't kill Gnutella," said Peoplesound's Schmidt.
[July 27, 2000, 14:23]
Cirrus deal gives MS Audio needed boost
News Ernesto Schmitt, CEO of MP3 music mavericks Peoplesound, believes that MP3 has the edge in terms of quality. In the end, both Crunch and Peoplesound agree the question of the music format is academic.
[September 28, 1999, 16:28]
MP3: A week in the life of a format under siege
News Organisations like Crunch, Peoplesound and a host of other Net savvy music sites are giving individuals the chance to shine without all the glam marketing the music companies have used on mega flops like Peter Andre, Chesney Hawkes or the UK's...
[January 28, 2000, 15:55]
World Online goes head to head with Freeserve
News The source added that a deal is under way with Peoplesound -- a partner with ZDNet's MP3 Newsroom -- expected to complete today. Peoplesound were unavailable for comment at press time. The UK's leading ISP Freeserve is in for fresh competition as a...
[January 24, 2000, 16:18]
Vitaminic buys FranceMP3
News Just days after purchasing the UK's Peoplesound, a Net-based music label, Vitaminic has bought out Eurekan Multimedia, owners of FranceMP3 an MP3France.com for 1.37m euros (about £840,000) and 250,000 new shares of Vitaminic stock.
[June 12, 2001, 9:09]
Dot-coms face a tough 2001
News Ernesto Schmitt, president of online music portal Peoplesound.com, believes that many UK dot-coms will find it difficult to attract investment this year -- in contrast to a year ago. The stock market will take a more cautious approach to the...
[January 4, 2001, 8:20]
Global streaming-media network underway
News Paul Levett vice president of technology at Peoplesound.com told ZDNet: "This is a great idea, especially the local caching, as if you want to guarantee quality you don't really want to expose yourself to the variable qualities of the national...
[September 10, 1999, 10:18]
News Burst: Universal plans online music label
News The move could represent the first major-label competition to upstart Net music labels such as eMusic or Peoplesound.com. Universal Music Group Wednesday announced plans for an online record label and music community.
[November 10, 1999, 9:25]
Burn your personalised CDs at Virgin...
News Enesto Schmitt, of Peoplesound.com, which will offer free personalised music in MP3 and Real Audio formats in the Autumn, thinks Virgin's move is sound, but lacks imagination. Although there are several Web sites offering similar services, this is...
[July 16, 1999, 16:52]
Consumers snub smaller music sites
News But the survey found that despite all the hype surrounding MP3 download sites such as Peoplesound.com and MP3.com, consumers favour the more traditional retailers for music purchases. Online music sales are thriving but the smaller niche "dot com...
[November 11, 1999, 17:07]
BIBLE: Best of British
News Peoplesound.com One of several startups getting a boost from the interest in digital music, Peoplesound.com wants to be your personal guide to new, undiscovered music. Channelfly like Peoplesound, is aiming for the new mainstream audience for...
[November 10, 1999, 13:40]
E-tailer Boxman seeks liquidation
News Ernesto Schmitt, president of music download Internet site peoplesound.com said "pure e-tailing doesn't work -- Boxman was inhabiting the deeply unfashionable e-tail space that is incapable of delivering real value".
[October 11, 2000, 13:31]
Web bands are the Net's big thing
News Peoplesound.com -- due to launch shortly -- also trials out new artists as well as offering bands the chance to sell their music online. Peoplesound currently has 1000 bands on its site. Nottingham-based hip-hop band Smokers Blend 3000 has reason...
[October 14, 1999, 13:42]
Possibly the biggest MP3 player in the world!
News The general feedback from consumers is that being able to carry an hour or two is a little bit limiting," said Ernesto Schmitt, president and founder of UK-based digital music site Peoplesound.com. A Korean electronics manufacturer is set to...
[November 4, 1999, 12:27]
SDMI will adopt MP3 as standard of choice - insider
News Ernesto Schmitt, president of peoplesound.com, a new company that plans to offer free online listening posts for trying out digital music, thinks the SDMI faces a tough future. The idea of the organisation backing the format it was originally set...
[July 14, 1999, 16:28]
