Fizy’s targets for 2012 – Digiturk channel and premium membership are on the way!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on January 5, 2012
We have learned that there are some exciting announcements on the way for Fizy, the popular music service started by Ercan Yarıs and whose majority shares were acquired by Turkcell. First let me say that Fizy has benefited from the synergy between Turkcell’s group companies and will have a channel on Digiturk. Fizy’s Digiturk channel might [...]
Popular Online Music Service Fizy Banned in Turkey
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on January 3, 2011
Turkish court has ordered access block to Fizy, which has become candidate for multiple categories in Webrazzi 2010. The service, which had been having problems with MU-YAP (Turkish Association of the Music Producers) and could not come to a conclusion, has been blocked by Beyoglu Prosecution on 17 December, 2010. We had already heard that [...]
Fizy Mood is Online for Those Who Doesn’t Want to Search Songs!
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on December 30, 2009
Fizy, online music service operating under Reklamz companies group, has released new beta feature. The feature is called Mood, which plays songs for whatever mood you are in, rather than searching the songs you want to listen to at Fizy. You can start the application by choosing one of the moods including nostalgic, calm, moving, melancholy, fun, [...]
Online Music Market Has Much Supply. But Where Is The Demand?
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on October 7, 2009
Are you aware that the most important content that shapes Turkish Internet market revolves around music category? A majority of website bans are due to this content type, most significant costs are created by these kind of websites, after video sites, the business models that makes the most income for third parties are music initiatives, [...]
Last.Fm and MySpace Banned in Turkey
22 Comments by Arda Kutsal on September 19, 2009
Access to MySpace and Last.fm is banned by Turkish court. We are currently not fully informed about the reason of the ban, but it may be due to music copyright violations. And again, this ban may be a consequence of a case filed by Turkish Union of Music Producers (MÜYAP) in order to protect music rights. Turkish [...]
iLike Starts To Sell Music, MySpace’s Appetite Grows!
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on September 18, 2009
In the previous days, popular music-based social network iLike had announced to music fans that it started to sell digital music. According to recent news, the world’s largest social network MySpace quoted $20m for iLike, which went beyond itself with this last move. As an old iLike user, I would say that iLike, which enables users [...]