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Webnoize Quietly Suspends Its Operations
News Webnoize, a Web publication and event planner that focused on the online entertainment industry, has suspended operations in an attempt to restructure its business, according to a notice on its Web site.
[December 3, 2001, 15:47]
Napster Hit By Defecting Users
News Analyst firm Webnoize said on Wednesday there were typically only 120,000 users logged onto Napster at any one time during June, compared to an average of 1.57 million simultaneous users back in February.
[July 12, 2001, 15:47]
Napster Rivals Winning Popularity Contest
News Matt Bailey, senior analyst at Webnoize, predicts that by November that number will surpass the popularity of Napster, which had 1.57 million simultaneous users at its peak. Consulting firm Webnoize said on Monday that the number of digital music...
[November 6, 2001, 9:38]
Napster Loses A Quarter Of Its Users
News A quarter of Napster's 60 million users have abandoned the song-swapping service since it brought in controls to prevent the illegal trading of copyrighted material, according to a survey carried out by research firm Webnoize.
[March 27, 2001, 16:09]
Napster Not Half The Site It Used To Be
News Although the amount of people on the system has remained fairly consistent, the number of files downloaded has been cut roughly in half, Webnoize analyst Matt Bailey said. After the latest update of its filters Wednesday night, the average number...
[March 16, 2001, 8:07]
Napster Tells Court Filters Are Working
News Research company Webnoize, which monitors traffic flowing through Napster's service, said that traffic last week actually jumped from the week before by more than 3 percent, with an average of 1.66 million people on the system at any given time.
[March 13, 2001, 10:23]
Napster Fans Rush To Its Defence
News According to an ongoing Webnoize study, nearly 3 billion MP3s were downloaded using Napster software in January -- a 91 percent increase from September. Napster's popularity has turned the MP3 format into the "de facto standard for digital music...
[February 13, 2001, 7:57]
Napster To Take Fingerprints
News For fingerprints to be useful, there needs to be a master database with the official information about the rights owner of the song," said Greg Rohda, an analyst at online music research company Webnoize.
[April 23, 2001, 8:32]
Napster Crackdown Drives Away Fans
News There's certainly not the snowballing effect (of people leaving) that you would expect given the lack of content," says Matt Bailey, an analyst at Webnoize who has closely tracked usage of the service.
[May 9, 2001, 8:02]
Hit List Dwindles In New Napster Software
News By further reducing the music available through the current service, Napster has provided another nail in the coffin of the service consumers originally loved," Webnoize analyst Matt Bailey said in a statement.
[June 28, 2001, 14:26]
Judges Put End To Napster Appeal
News According to industry consulting firm Webnoize, the average number of files shared by a person on the Napster network fell from 220 in February to just 21 by the end of May. Webnoize also estimated that just 360 million files were traded through...
[June 26, 2001, 7:21]
Napster Signs Up Record Labels
News Webnoize said the average number of simultaneous users dropped from 1.57 million in February to 840,000 in May. According to figures released Tuesday by research firm Webnoize, the average number of files shared per person on Napster dropped from...
[June 6, 2001, 9:13]
Napster Signs Euro Indie Labels
News According to industry consulting firm Webnoize, the average number of files shared by a person on the Napster network fell from 220 in February to just 21 by the end of May. Webnoize also estimated that just 360 million files were traded through...
[June 26, 2001, 13:27]
Digital Industry Execs Bare Their Souls
News But it was one of her unwanted efforts that helped Napster find a new friend in the recording industry, she told a group of industry insiders Tuesday attending the Webnoize conference in Los Angeles. The RIAA's Hilary Rosen says she doesn't like to...
[November 15, 2000, 14:57]
Is Napster Taking A Toll On CD Sales?
News A poll published by research firm Webnoize this month showed 73 percent of college students use Napster software at least once a month. A new study out may back up one of the arguments against Napster -- namely, once fans can download songs online...
[May 25, 2000, 15:48]
Napster Lifts Some Song-swapping Limits
News According to industry consulting firm Webnoize, the average number of files shared by a person on the Napster network fell from 220 in February to just 21 by the end of May. Napster has released a new version of its software that allows customers...
[June 25, 2001, 15:42]
Swap This! EMusic Takes On Napster
News Ric Dube, an analyst with Webnoize, called the move a precursor to a possible lawsuit that would pit two pioneers, Napster and EMusic -- the first and so far only large-scale, subscription-based MP3 download sites -- against each other.
[November 22, 2000, 8:29]
The New Scour: Users Will Pay
News Ric Dube, of Webnoize, called CenterSpan a "virtual unknown" in the music space, that may be trying a risky business model. CenterSpan Communications, the new owners of Scour's file-swapping technology, plan to start charging users when the service...
[December 15, 2000, 9:52]
Napster Decision Could Have Industry Repercussions
News Napster's greatest strength was in its massive numbers of consumers online sharing songs at any given moment -- averaging 1.67 million people at any given time last week, according to research firm Webnoize.
[March 14, 2001, 10:11]
Lawsuit Targets Biggest Post-Napster Network
News Consulting firm Webnoize estimated that 3.05 billion files were downloaded using the FastTrack-based network, Audio Galaxy, iMesh and the Gnutella network during August. Adding a new challenge to their list of legal attacks, the record industry and...
[October 3, 2001, 9:42]
