Per Einar Dybvik from WiMP spoke at the Mobile Future conference in Stockholm today.
From press release: Aspiro’s music streaming service WiMP was named the winner of the category Best Music Service at the Meffys last night. The global awards for mobile content and commerce was celebrated at the annual gala awards dinner in London’s Covent Garden. Following its success in Scandinavia, and over 300,000 paying users so far, [...]
Today WiMP and Aspiro launched an important feature in our service: playlist import and export. We believe that people, music lovers, who spend time and effort building digital playlists and picking favourite artists and albums should be allowed to keep these collections regardless of which streaming music service they want to use. This is significant [...]
Recently I attended a conference about music and related topics, mostly marketing oriented. As usual an impressive amount of ideas, opinions and statements were shared amongst a pretty active audience. So far so good. We need more bright people, focusing on steering our industry into new territories and unchartered land. I am also encouraged by [...]
Last week, I participated at an “Access vs. Ownership” panel at MusicConnex in London. I shared the panel with the good folks at We7, MusicAlly, Mflow and others. On the day, I tried to steer the discussion away from Access VERSUS Ownership as it does not have to be VERSUS at all. Ownership AND Access [...]
From April 12th to April 14th the Gulltaggen conference and award show was held in Oslo and we are proud to annouce that WiMP won the award for the best e-commerce solution. Yeeeah! We are both proud and humble to recieve this honour and wish to thank the jury and escpecially our many users. At [...]
In our view there is nothing more frightening than the empty search box, quietly and threatingly blinking before your eyes (which make me search for “Portishead” 9 out 10 times (see earlier post). We have dubbed this form of anxiety Blinking Search Box Syndrome and our mission is to provide the cure in the form of a WiMP PiLL.
Today we launched in Sweden to continue our search for the cure.
This is one perspective on a “how-to” guide for valuing Aspiro. We have business that have very different financial dynamics, and this is an effort to give some clarity to those of you who are new to the business.
As I mentioned in the previous post, flesh on the bones, or as the Swedes say literally “meat on the bones”, can be provided to financial reporting. We published our Q4 results a little while back, and probably the biggest news was that we chose to forecast, for the first time in years. Aspiro operates [...]
The vast majority of stock listed companies have yet to embrace launching a corporate blog. While there are many challenges for a communicator in a stock listed company, balancing regulations with the desire to be as open as possible is probably among the main reasons for this. What does a blog do? One of its [...]