Kudos Records, worldwide aggregator and physical distributor of independent music labels, signed a license agreement with SpiralFrog.

Click Record Productions Ltd, a UK independent record label, signed a licensing agreement with SpiralFrog to make their tracks available for legal downloading.

Shortly after Christmas, music start-up SpiralFrog appeared to be spiraling out of control. Few at the digital music company were exactly sure who was in charge following the December 26 firing of SpiralFrog CEO Robin Kent, said former employees. Kent's ouster created a chasm in the company's leadership, the former employees said, and soon after, 5 of SpiralFrog's 10 board directors and 5 company managers exited.

SpiralFrog today announces that Jordan Levin, founding partner of Generate and former CEO of the WB television network, has been appointed to its Board of Directors. SpiralFrog is a downloadable music website that is running off an advertising revenue model launching early in 2007.

SpiralFrog's chief executive officer, at least five members of his executive team and three board directors have left the fledgling music store, according to sources connected to the company.

DREARY OIRISH ROCKERS U2 have been put in a queer position by Spiral Frog's challenge to Apple's pre-eminence in legitimate music downloads.

There are right ways to use ad revenue to provide free goods and services, and there are wrong ways. This brilliant revelation struck as I read all the buzz about the forthcoming free music download site SpiralFrog, which some are touting as a challenge to the reigning king of the downloadable music world, iTunes.If you glance over the headlines, you might indeed believe that Apple faces a real challenge. Here you have a new company with an amusing name, teamed up with a dominant music company in Universal, providing music and video downloads absolutely free.

The world's largest music company is backing a rival to Apple's iTunes which will allow fans to download music free. Universal Music has given its approval to SpiralFrog, an online music store which relies on advertising for its revenue. By being completely free, Spiral-Frog's service represents a departure from Apple's popular iTunes online store - which charges per music track - and other legal download services, which have a subscription fee.

The world's largest music company, Universal Music, has agreed to support a new venture enabling consumers to download songs free of charge; the scheme will rely on advertising for its revenues. The new venture known as Spiral Frog is a move away from the 99-cent per-song business model popularized by Apple's iTunes store.

Music giant Universal Music is supporting a new web site that allows visitors to download songs free of charge, in exchange for viewing adverts.With a suitably odd name, Spiral Frog will launch in December - initially to the US and Canada - in an attempt to lure illegal music downloaders away from those sites. Recent stats suggest that for every track downloaded legally, another 40 are downloaded illegally.

Vivendi Universal and Spiral Frog have teamed up for yet another entry into the legal, DRM crippled music market. Spiral Frog, set to launch in December of this year, will be a "free" ad supported service with the --debatably absurd -- goal of competing with peer to peer file sharing.

SpiralFrog... Now that’s a strange brand name. Not that I haven’t come up with my fair share of weird names for my clients. And how’s “A Digital Entertainment Destination” for a tagline? But that’s not the point.SpiralFrog, it was announced Tuesday, is where Universal Music is releasing its entire catalog for free download. The idea is already being compared to iTunes and it definitely shows that the music business is really feeling the heat of the new digital reality.

Universal Music are reportedly backing a new ad-supported free music service SpiralFrog. This is innovative but not entirely new - it is part of a broader development of the music industry becoming more experimental and broad minded with digital music. See also EMI / Mashboxx, Snocap and all the majors settlement with Kazaa. Developing ad-supported free music services is actually something we have been telling the music industry they should do for some time now