Jamba, known outside Europe as Jamster, continues to add to the stockpile of content available on its German music portal. This time the company has introduced spoken word content ranging from comedy to fairy tales. (The content comes from record labels and recordings – and the overall offer shares many…

Proof, or at least early indications, that News Corp, which last week bought majority in Jamba, would let it work with rival companies: it is wooing partners for Jamba Music, the company’s newly-launched music rental and purchasing service that we reported about before its official launch. First out of the…

News Corp, in search of a strategy on the mobile side of things after pioneering some early efforts in mobile content, has bought a majority (51 percent) of Verisign-owned mobile content firm Jamba/Jamster, for about $187.5 million. The site Jamba will be merged with News Corp’s own lukewarm mobile content…

Jamba (the German version of Jamster) has launched some FIFA World Cup initiatives…SMS and MMS alerts, along with Playoff from Mobile Entertainment Factory (MEF), which is a tournament guide along with updates. But what would Jamba be without annoying animated animals? So there’s songs and backgrounds of the Crazy Frog,…

[by Jemima Kiss]—EMI‘s prediction is that global revenue from digital platforms will grow from less than one per cent in 2003 to 25 per cent in 2010. Thomas Ryan, SVP for digital/mobile strategy, said EMI has a three-pronged approach (at least this conference has been good for lists, and we…

Jamba—the European version of Verisign-owned Jamster—is planning to offer a subscription music service from the 1st of May. It will start in Germany and spread to other European countries. “Subscribers pay €15 per month for unlimited downloads.” I’m not sure whether the music you download is rented or owned…the service…

Late last year Jamster announced plans to move into full-track downloads...there’s some more details here. It’s set to launch in the UK and Germany with 250,000 tracks, and will “sell songs on a per-download and rental basis” (does “rental” mean “subscription”?). The service will be dual-download and the company is…

Whoa…we knew it was high, but this is right up there with the likes of, believe me, Unilever. Verisign-owned Jamster, the creator of the Crazy Frog ringtone, spent about $ 80 million on advertising in the UK last year, reports Times UK, far more than Marks & Spencer and Asda.…

Jamster has lost an attempt to prevent UK advertising watchdong, the Advertising Standards Authority, from “publishing a scathing adjudication relating to TV advertising for its Crazy Frog, Sweetie the Chick and Nessie the Dragon ringtones”. There were 298 complaints about the ads for targeting children, and the ASA adjudication “ordered…

(reg. req.) The annoying Crazy Frog advertising is being clamped down upon, in Germany (where it is owned through Jamba, in turn owned by Verisign)...The head of MTV Germany, Catherine Muehlemann, plans to ban all adverts for mobile ringtones between 4pm and midnight following complaints from viewers. The Crazy Frog…