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Business Matters: Earbits-Powered Radio Station Debuts at SFGate

You can see a display ad linking to SFGate Radio at the site's entertainment home page . Follow the link to the SFGate Radio page and you can select from a range of genres such as rock, jazz and bluegrass. A highlighted station is for The Seedless Summer tour stop in Berkeley on July 29 plays songs by bands on the bill such as Slightly Stoopid and Rebelution. Co-founder and CEO Joey Florez tells Billboard.biz the company was founded out of necessity by musicians who wanted to promote their shows. So the three founders came up with a concept of a platform that would act as a band's promotional platform and would tie in to other channels. For example, Earbits can play an artist's music to a listener in a specific market that artist will soon be playing. "We're a marketing company cleverly designed as a radio platform," he says. Earbits' business model gives it an unusual cost structure for a music streaming service. Because it negotiates its own licenses with both unsigned artists and independent labels, it doesn't pay out the usual royalties, explains Florez. He says that the company has a SoundExchange royalty waiver and standard deals with the three performing rights organizations. Dubset isn't traditional radio. It's more like Pandora-meets-mixtapes. The sleek, well-designed site offers DJ mixes of dance music that span house, electro, hip hop and dance-oriented and remixed rock tracks. Using a technology it calls MixSCAN, Dubset tracks the songs within each mix for royalty distribution to SoundExchange, ASCAP, BMI and SESAC. -- A report claims that Spotify launch partners paid $1 million for display advertising on the platform and a large chunk of Spotify Free invites to pass along to consumers. As we already knew, the brands involved with the launch include Coca-Cola, Motorola and Chevrolet. And as I have pointed out, launch partners were a key element in Spotify's product rollout , which generated significant online buzz and was covered by many mainstream media outlets. The one thing we know for sure is that Spotify was able to attract premium brands to its U.S. launch. That's an encouraging sign. The better the brands, the more valuable the sponsorships, the more value is returned to artists and rights holders and the most feasible the company's business model. ( MetronomeReview ) -- On the list of Seattle's 14 hot digital startups by Business Insider's Matt Rosoff (a former Billboard.

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Earlier this week Verizon made Pandora available to its FiOS TV customers in California, Texas and Virginia — with other markets apparently getting the service soon.

Verizon’s FiOS TV service is basically cable TV delivered through fiber-optic cables . Verizon also offers telephone and Internet services through the FiOS system.

Though Verizon says this is the first time a major cable operator has added Pandora’s service, the webcaster has long been available on TVs via web-connected devices from Roku, Boxee and many others. Find Verizon’s press release here .

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