BPI Head Spins

Last week Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, made a rather brave admission in an editorial on the BBC web site. He fessed up to the fact that the record industry fucked up by not embracing Napster ten years ago and further lamented the lack of acceptance of any new models at the time. [...]

Media Planning and Buying – Top 10 Tips for Success

As media proliferates in types available and number of opportunities, picking the right combination to actually produce results is getting harder and harder.
These tips can help you get the most out of your advertising budgets in 2009.
 

Have your online sales process right before you advertise
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Event Report: Millennials & The Social Media Explosion

The concept behind this event was two fold; looking at how the social media phenomenon has impacted rights holders and also examining the various paths it could take in the future. The whole evening was recorded and broadcast later as a podcast, which naturally you can share along side your other social media…
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Music Tank [...]

Sustainability And The Future Of Webcasting

There have been some significant announcements made in the past few weeks on both sides of the Atlantic concerning the rates charged by labels and publishers for the use their music by webcasters/online radio stations. The future of citizen webcasting, tens of thousands of stations serving the tastes and needs of hundreds of millions of [...]

Event Report: Musexpo Europe 2009

Whilst TMV Editor Jakomi was bunkered down undertaking numerous video interviews (which you will get to view over the coming weeks), I was getting the lowdown on the panels that mattered.
Day 1 Tuesday 30th June
The New Power Players
Ted Cohen from TAG strategic moderated this panel focusing on the rise of the new digital stakeholders, where [...]

Hello Echo Closes Down Leaving Artists in the Lurch

Thanks to MusicAlly TMV learned yesterday that the Echomusic platform, touted as a dynamic integration of website, email-list, merchandise sales and fan connection tools is being closed down by its parent company Ticketmaster. TMV drills down and analyses the implications of this for artists, labels and other competing platforms.