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Reuters are reporting that Warner Music has signed a deal with digital media site 7digital.com to provide its catalogue in the MP3 format, which can be played on nearly all music devices.

Warner Music International, a division of Warner Music Group said its catalogue — with hits from James Blunt and the Red Hot Chili Peppers — would be available to 7digital.com customers in the UK, Ireland, Spain, France and Germany. The site is the first major European download store to offer Warner’s tracks in the DRM-free MP3 format — 7digital offers EMI’s catalogue in the MP3 format and aims to sign more labels soon.

Founded in 2003, 7 Digital’s singles service distributes singles to over 200 partner sites such as AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and NME. 7 Digital is established in the music industry by providing the download capability for all the major record labels and over 200 independents. In addition, 7 Digital helps artists such as Gorillaz and Coldplay make downloads available directly from their own websites.

Investors: Balderton Capital, Sutton Place Managers

Tags: 7Digital, AOL, Balderton Capital, MSN, NME, Sutton Place Managers, Warner Music International, Yahoo

Mysinglefriend.com, the dating site created by TV presenter Sarah Beeny, is poised for its first concerted marketing drive, after hiring search and digital agency Bigmouthmedia. The dating site, founded in October 2005 by Beeny, who presents UK Channel 4 show Property Ladder, has employed the agency to handle its search engine optimisation in a bid to rise up the natural search rankings on the main search engines Google, Yahoo!, MSN and Ask.

Bigmouthmedia was formed in January 1996 and is backed by The Carlyle Group.

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Tags: Ask, Channel 4, Google, MSN, MySingleFriend.com, The Carlyle Group, Yahoo

I don’t know about you but with 200 TV channels to go at I can’t find anything to watch most nights. It the usual story - soaps, reality TV (is there such a thing?), quiz shows, depress-u-dramas and third rate made-for-tv movies. So I increasingly turn to the web for my entertainment. As more and more deals are done I find I can watch some pretty interesting stuff, usually music or comedy centric shows or video clips. It is with a warm (well- tepid) heart that I report that MTV Networks has cut several online syndication deals with web sites.

MTV will supply short-form content to Veoh, GoFish, imeem, MeeVee and Dailymotion. These deals augment existing arrangements with AOL, Joost, MSN, Bebo and Comcat’s Fancast.

Tags: AOL, Bebo, Comcast, Dailymotion, Fancast, GoFish, imeem, Joost, MeeVee, MSN, MTV, Veoh