Author Archive for Jakomi Mathews
Jakomi Mathews – Founder & Editor, The Music Void
Why Refusal to Engage Is No Longer Acceptable?
Jakomi Mathews explains why artists must get actively involved with their fans via social media, or risk oblivion.
THE ROLE PLAYED BY SEARCH ENGINES IN ENABLING COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Jakomi Mathews gives his opinion on the BPI’s recent copyright complaint against Google.
Wireless Channel Marketing Manager – Dusseldorf, Frankfurt or UK
About the company: The navigation and location based services market is evolving quickly into the wireless environment. As the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data (digital location content) enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world. My client’s developing its marketing skills and expertise into the Mobile Network environment. Within [...]
Director of Product Management, Social (Silicon Valley)
Director of Product Management, Social (Silicon Valley)
Is Apple’s Walled Garden Sustainable?
Only two weeks ago it emerged that the US Department of Justice had announced an investigation into Apple iTunes’ practice of strong-arming labels against using rival Amazon. Then late last week the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began investigating whether Apple’s business practices harm competition in “the market used for software used on mobile devices”. [...]
How That Limewire Fine Could Fix The UK’s Budget Deficit
Here’s a solution to the budget deficit: get LimeWire to pay it. That’s because a calculation by a lawyer acting for the US’s record label representative, the RIAA, is that LimeWire – found guilty earlier this year of knowingly abetting the infringement of copyright through its peer-to-peer service – owes the RIAA some restitution for [...]
Playing The System
Since I’m currently in Australia I thought it apt to write about a new Australian-based upstart to the music industry, which is causing waves of consternation on a global level. The company in question is called Chartfixer , and as the name suggests, it has come up with a new way to ‘game’ the ARIA [...]
THE ONGOING DEVALUATION OF MUSIC
Jakomi Mathews investigates whether recorded music is still as valuable to the ‘freestreaming’ consumer.
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Billboard.biz- Google Rolls Location-Based Mobile Display Ads July 29, 2010
- Business Matters: Rolling Stones, Ustream, DMX and more July 29, 2010
- Dimensional Completes Acquisition of The Orchard July 29, 2010
- Sources: Spotify Reboots U.S. Label Negotiations July 29, 2010
- Business Matters: Lucian Grainge, Live Nation, Les Savy Fav and more July 28, 2010
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- Nuance Unveils Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 11, Simply Smarter Speech Recognition July 29, 2010
- Business Owners Need Understanding of Internet Marketing to Engage With Customers July 29, 2010
- Brits trust the web more than their friends July 29, 2010
- Google Crowned "King of Malware" – Has Two Times More Malware than Bing, Yahoo! and Twitter Combined July 28, 2010
- StrongMail Acquires Marketing Services Firms and Creates Email and Social CRM Agency Powerhouse "ThreadMarketing" July 28, 2010
Apple’s iTunes Store gave labels much-needed succour after its launch in 2003, slowing down big losses by replicating physical’s per-track purchase paradigm in digital. But now, even after many such services have abandoned copy locks, growth in downloads has largely flatlined, or even worse. The new promised land lays in...
In the second instalment of his series on piracy and anti-piracy, Andrea Leonelli interviews Alex Jacob, Communications Manager at the International Federation of the Phonographic industry – better known as the IFPI. Also, the debate organised by Music Ally on Cloud music services, which included some very interesting guests. PRS...