Social Media Newsfeed: YouTube Music Service | Miami Dolphins on Yo

[emailonly]{{{ sbox300x250 }}}[/emailonly] Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. YouTube's Streaming Music Service Just Overcame its Last Big Barrier (Mashable) Google has overcome the last major barrier to launching its YouTube-based streaming music service. The streaming video platform has struck a deal to license music from smaller record labels, ending a dispute that had included threats to take down videos from acts including Adele and the Arctic Monkeys. GigaOM YouTube has signed a deal with Merlin, the independent music trade group that represents more than 2,000 indie labels including XL Recordings, Epitaph and Domino, according to a Financial Times report. A YouTube spokesperson declined to comment. FT The agreement paves the way for the Google-owned company to finally launch a paid-for music service, which will compete with Spotify, the Swedish streaming service, Deezer of France and Apple’s Beats Music. “One of the last significant obstacles to getting to market has been removed,” said Mark Mulligan, music analyst at Midia Research. Yo, Miami Dolphins Fans: Team is First in Nation to Jump on Trendy Social App (South Florida Business Journal) The Dolphins became the first NFL team in the country to join the app Yo. The team gained a few hundred followers in two days and plans to make the app part of its core social media strategy, along with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Bill Cosby’s Social Media #Fail (SocialTimes) Comedian Bill Cosby had introduced a meme generator on Twitter, inviting his followers to turn his photos into memes. (The meme generator has also been deleted.) Like #MyNYPD and #AskJPM, the experiment went awry after Twitter called out his history of sexual assault allegations. [emailonly]{{{ jodslot01 }}}[/emailonly] Garth Brooks Joins Facebook, Twitter and Social Selfie Craze (Rolling Stone) It's been 10 years since Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in his Harvard dorm room… and less than 10 hours since Garth Brooks logged onto his own Facebook fan page for the first time. That's right: Garth Brooks, the somewhat technophobic man against the (digital) machine, is officially participating in social media. Six Small Business Saturday Tips for Brands on Facebook (AllFacebook) With the fifth annual Small Business Saturday coming up Nov. 29, four prior participants in the event shared tips on how to benefit from it with the Facebook for Business page. Facebook said an estimated $5.7 billion was spent at small businesses on Small Business Saturday 2013. Are Brands Afraid of Sharing Their Consumers' Data With Facebook? (Adweek) Facebook wants brands to know their data is safe. The social network has been on a charm offensive of sorts to assure advertisers that when they share information to buy ads on Facebook, that data is not seen by anyone else. [emailonly]{{{ sbox01 }}}[/emailonly] Jennifer Lawrence: I Will Never Join #Twitter (AllTwitter) Are you a fan of Jennifer Lawrence? Hey, who isn’t, right? Unfortunately, Ms. Lawrence has never graced us with her presence on Twitter and, judging by some remarks she made as part of her publicity tour for the new Hunger Games movie, she never will. Social Media Buzz Can (Kind of) Predict Box Office Success (BetaBeat) Twitter has analyzed a whole mess of data about what people are saying there about movies to see what it says about what movies are going to be popular at the box office. Among the interesting data points in the post are that, according to Twitter, people have somewhere around 200,000 movie-related conversations daily. HuffPost Live Partners with Hulu (LostRemote) HuffPost Live and Hulu launched a partnership that gives the former a channel on the latter’s platform. HuffPost Live’s new page is now live and will host episodes of “HuffPost Live Conversations.” [emailonly]{{{ sbox02 }}}[/emailonly]

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Social Media Newsfeed: YouTube Music Service | Miami Dolphins on Yo

YouTube streaming music service signs deal with indie trade group. Miami Dolphins first NFL team to launch on Yo. These stories, and more, in today's Morning Social Media Newsfeed.

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