Welcome to gBox, iTunes Newest Competition
08.13.07 - 02:12pm
Universal is going DRM free and gBox is taking full advantage of Apple’s fight with Universal to step in to promote their new online music service.
Google has formed an advertising partnership with gBox in which Google will get paid by showing ads directing buyers to
gBox when a search is done for a particular artist. Buyers can then buy and download the song through gBox so rather than having to search through iTunes for an artist and song users can simply search for the artist or song and buy from there. Google will get paid in their standard advertising dollars from the seller of the music in this case Universal who will be paying for the ads rather than getting a cut of music sales such as iTunes does. Universal then has a separate deal with gBox for using their service to distribute and make their music available for download.
