Fast Company Names 10 Most Innovative Music Companies of 2010
Fast Company business magazine has named its Most Innovative Companies Of 2010 including 10 in music.
Spotify – North America is still waiting.- Apple Corps – The Beatles, not Steve Jobs.
- Man Made Music – Joel Beckerman connecting sounds with brands.
- Vevo – Fast Company says, "Vevo is on its way to becoming the Hulu of music videos."
- Antares Audio Technologies – The Auto-Tune folks.
- Third Man Records – The Jack White empire.
- Beats by Dr. Dre – The partnership between Monster, Interscope Geffen A&M Records chairman Jimmy Iovine, and Dr. Dre made giant studio-quality headphones a fashion accessory.
- Ticketfly – The concert ticket service uses software pioneered in the hedge-fund industry to let groups of friends buy tickets together.
- Insomniac Productions – Electric Daisy Carnival annual electronica festival in L.A. that grew to 135,000 in 2009.
- Playdar – This open-source app looks for tracks on the Web and the users hard drives and pulls them together in a single jukebox.
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Apple Corps? What have they done recently that’s so innovative?
Same with Antares. Auto-tune is an old technology now (it’s been around for a while now),s oagain, what have they done recently?
What about MOG?
I’m guessing Apple Corps is because of Beatles Rock Band?
Auto-tune took off again in the urban community…in a major way in the last 3yrs. (for better or worse lol)
I picked up this copy in the airport, and am agreement with all you guys. WTF does Fast Company know about the music industry?
Congratulations Monster, Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine for making that list. Beats by Dre was an incredible idea!
Greg Calloway
I dig the fact that there is true revenue in most of this list. Most of these lists are like most fun on digital island lists. No offense – but content hustlers at tweet ups and eat-ups spend time chatting and self promoting….the content is what sells – the creators of the content need the most support and direction..artist development with no revenue is the core issue to geek-up about.
Nothing innovative here.. innovative are the companies forcing the hand of the industry to shift in a new direction. tunecore, rocnation,
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@Happy Parts: Innovation and revenue are two different beasts and those that are the former aren’t all that often connected to the latter.
This list isn’t innovative: What’s innovative about Apple licensing The Beatles to one digital format just as it peaks in popularity? They haven’t done anything like Radiohead or NIN to shake things up. Autotune is almost 20 years old. Is Jack White doing something innovative? Coulda fooled me – but then I live in a country where bands have been releasing vinyl 45s for years. (Probably where Jack got the idea – lol.)
Where’s Mog, Deezer, or 1click2fame, just to pick 3 obvious contenders.
I think Soundcloud.com should have been in this list.
Playdar — maybe if they obtained licensing from copyright owners, or else they’re just asking for trouble.
List reads like they totally struck out and didn’t do any research beyond whatever PR email blasts were occupying the inbox at the time.
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