Author Archive for Ted Cohen
As a 30-year industry veteran, Ted has led the digital industry by embracing and exploiting new technologies and business models.
The Big Hurt
Ted Cohen wades into the ongoing battle against BitTorrents and recent legal judgements…
Copyright Is So Damn Annoying!
This week Pandora announced over $50 million in annual revenues. This was, for many, big news. Even bigger news was the announcement last month that they were profitable in the 4th quarter of 2009, and tracking full-year profitability in 2010. But the information that seemed to rub many industry critics the wrong way was the [...]
My Christmas Wish List
As I sit here at the end of an eventful year, it feels like we’ve made a lot of progress in digital music, but we have such a long way to go. My wish is that the gains we’ve made are the basis for the digital music landscape we’ve all dreamed of. Digital services and [...]
Apple Moves Toward Music As Service
For nearly four years, I’ve been evangelizing the transition of the music industry from a product-based business to a service-based economy. I’ve never viewed this as a possible scenario but as the only eventuality. It’s going to happen, it’s got to happen, now maybe sooner than later. With Apple’s acquisition this week of LaLa, the [...]
Free Isn’t Working, What’s Next?
In April of 2006, I spoke in Hong Kong at the Nokia N Series launch. The focus of my talk, that music as a product was dead; the future of music was service-based. At the time, senior executives at EMI were outraged by my perspective. I still believe it’s the future, we have to embrace [...]
Mobile Music At The Crossroads
This past Monday, I moderated a panel at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, California. The topic: Establishing the personalized mobile music experience. While the panelists didn’t reach any earth-shaking conclusions, it became clear that mobile is definitely the final link in the evolution of music’s transition from a product-based business model to service-based [...]
Supply And Demand in The Age Of Infinite Supply
Ted Cohen, questions the argument that if digital download prices were lowered, uptake and conversion of pirates to legal purchasing of tracks will increase.
Lily Allen Steps Up
Hooray for Lily Allen, she had the guts to stand up and say enough is enough, “File-sharing’s not OK for British music. I want to get people working together to use new digital opportunities to encourage new artists.” Not since Metallica’s stance against Napster ten years ago has an artist so boldly stood up to [...]
The Funding Gap
MOG the music blog network, announced this past Thursday that they had secured $5 million dollars (U.S.) in new financing from Menlo Ventures and others, giving them a total raise of $12 million dollars. This is great news for MOG’s founder, David Hyman, and even better news for digital music start-ups around the world. In [...]
Morality in the Digital Age
There has been a tremendous amount of debate following the Tennenbaum trial, most of around the perceived severity of the damages awarded by the jury. Many believed that the music industry was unfairly punishing Joel for what many saw as a minor offense, he shared a couple dozen songs on the Internet. What was the [...]
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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...