Author Archive for Angel Gambino
Angel Gambino is an entrepreneur and investor who has a wide range of experience working with innovative businesses that are developing and initiating high quality digital entertainment.
David Maher Roberts – Sounds Digital Insider
David Maher Roberts shares his insights with us in this first post in our Sounds Digital Insiders – a series of interviews with each of the Sounds Digital International Mentors.
Fanning the flames of innovation: New Fan Management Tools & Companies
Angel Gambino begins a month of CEO interviews; this week’s interview is with Noah Dinkin CEO and co-founder of the dynamic Fanbridge service. See what was said and what points were brought up.
Buzz makes it easy to share a little too much
I love the openness of Americans. It’s endearing, although it can mean listening to an extraordinary amount of information about someone for a first meeting. This can be uncomfortable when the conversation seems to have no context for such openness. In these encounters, it becomes clear that, unlike Brits, many Americans value sharing over privacy.
Facebook [...]
CES & 3D TV
When I arrived late to LAX on my delayed flight, I knew a nightmare would ensue. Trying to find a last-minute flight to Las Vegas in the days leading up to the Consumer Electronics Show, the U.S.’s largest trade show, is like trying to get Glastonbury tickets before the rise of secondary ticket resellers [...]
Is Live Nation Prevented from Bundling Live Performances into Ticket Sales Now?
A meeting of minds between the largest events promoter and the largest digital music retailer means music fans can soon buy downloadable audio or video concert footage at select shows and at 80 venues. Live Nation will provide iTunes with exclusive downloadable videos of select concerts performed at more than 80 venues.
The venues are wired [...]
Music Lawsuits Move Beyond Music, Targeting Merchandising Cash Cows
Each time I open my Google alerts I expect to see some new announcement about one of the majors suing yet another internet business for copyright infringement. I’m always curious to see who the perpetrators are and how the conflict will be resolved.
I love the headlines that blame the internet for the entire meltdown of [...]
Is Subscription Model of the Future Bundled Media?
At a social TV conference I chaired earlier this year, a speaker from Screen Digest said, “Subscriptions don’t work.” I asked other speakers if they thought this was a viable business model for any area of online video, or even digital media as a whole. Most agreed there was a lack of consumer appetite to [...]
Apple’s Big Challenge is not Spotify but China
As Spotify goes live on Android and the iPhone for its limited number of premium subscribers in Europe, I hear the glee of the geeks Stateside and here. Among other nifty usability features, Spotify can play your entire catalogue offline through playlist caches, so you can listen to the largest music collection on the web [...]
DIY Shouldn’t Mean Do It ALL Yourself PART 4: Interview with Daniel Ward-Murphy
The next interview in our DIY series where we explore the artists’ viewpoints on what problems needs fixing most urgently and how they are currently managing their careers with many new digital opportunities and market challenges, is London based Irishman and singer songwriter Daniel Ward-Murphy. Simply put, I like his stuff, but I [...]
DIY Shouldn’t Mean Do it ALL Yourself PART 3: Interview with Adam Ficek
The third interview in the DIY series explores how even artists with passionate and loyal fan bases like Adam Ficek, most widely known as the drummer for BabyShambles, are still struggling with how best to engage with their fans and manage their careers enhanced by new digital toolboxes alongside existing management, publishing, PR and other partnerships.
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Billboard.biz- Vevo's Traffic Surge March 11, 2010
- Kings Of Leon Take 'Revenge' On iPhone Gamers March 11, 2010
- 'Green Day: Rock Band' Release Date Set March 11, 2010
- France’s Zimbalam Plants Flag In North America March 11, 2010
- Canadian Music Week: Ole's McCarty Tackles ISPs On Piracy March 11, 2010
- RealWire
- Break the Victorinox code and win £100,000 March 11, 2010
- Enhanced Mobile-Phone Based Dog Tracking From Retrieva Tracking And ViewRanger March 11, 2010
- Twitter Makes Its Red Carpet Debut For Celebrities And Criminals March 10, 2010
- VideoEgg to Present at iMedia Brand Summit 2010 March 10, 2010
- TM Forum Excellence Awards 2010: Soaring Interest Attracts Fierce Competition March 10, 2010
Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...
Everyone is now well familiar with the story of Spiral Frog and how it buried the ad-supported download model. Reasons given for this are numerous, ranging from reports of blatant mismanagement to non-compatibility with iPods to consumer resistance to being force fed a 60 or 90 second commercial before the...