All Entries Tagged With: "Apple"
The Music Industry’s Demographics Problem
Mark Mulligan from Forrester Research provides some dynamic insight into the music business’s demographics problem
PaidContent 2010 Event Report
Over 300 media executives gathered in New York City on February 19 to discuss the economics of paid content. PaidContent 2010 presented a high-level and forward-thinking discussion of the major issues and opportunities facing content creators and publishers. Howard Brooks Reports.
Compulsory Cannibalism
Last week the Chairman of Warner Music Group made some interesting comments during the annual earnings conference call. He decried “free” streaming models, saying that WMG is not interested in supporting them any longer. By streaming their music for free, he seems to think that such services are cutting into WMG revenues. This, of course, [...]
Apple Devices Are Sexy: But are They Reliable?
With all the hype surrounding Apple’s iPad launch last week TMV thought it about time to dig a bit deeper and look at Apple and the reliability of its devices. Whilst Apple products for the last decade from powerbooks to the iPod and iMacs have been both iconic and look sleek and sexy. Has reliability [...]
Bringing Home The Bacon
My favorite news story of the week broke last Friday. A 26-year-old kid named Allan Ellis was cleared of conspiracy to defraud the music industry—whatever that means. A jury of 12 unanimously voted a “not guilty” verdict after a 2-week trial at the Teesside Crown Court in the UK.
There were a lot of colorful accusations [...]
App Store Piracy Numbers: Implausible or cause for concern?
A controversial report was issued last week about the state of piracy for the Apple iTunes app store which ended up raising quite a few questions, including Apple’s lack of concern for it. In January, Apple announced that over 3 billion apps had been downloaded and since November there have been over 100,000 apps available [...]
TMV Looks back On Our Predictions to See Where We Were Right and Where We Got It Wrong
Last year saw The Music Void make its first foray into future gazing with our bold (and not so bold) predictions for the music industry in 2009. With no pedigree of clairvoyance to fall back upon, we probably erred on the side of caution at times, but all things considered we acquitted ourselves reasonably well [...]
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 [...]
Lala Land: How Apple’s Deal Gives It A Leg-Up To The Cloud
Robert Andrews editor at our content partner, paidContentUK examines the recent acquisition of Lala by Apple.
iTunes Store remains the market-leading music retailer, and iTunes the popular app, but competitors are gathering.
As more of our lives are stored online, so more music is streaming from the cloud. In on-demand, Spotify is hoping to launch in the [...]
Sony Online Service: The Next iTunes Killer?
Sony announced last week that there are plans for a new online store for music, film, books and other digital content, set to be released next year. The announcement came at a management strategy meeting in Tokyo on 19th November and the new service, temporarily dubbed “Sony Online Service” is planning to take on Apple’s [...]
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Billboard.biz- Business Matters: BPI Advice To ISPs, House of Blues March 9, 2010
- Aventura 'Open Mic' Karaoke Game Hits iTunes App Store March 9, 2010
- MTV International Names Digital Media Senior VP March 8, 2010
- Business Matters: EMI Music Pub, StubHub, Pandora, Camper Van Beethoven and More March 8, 2010
- Spotify Debuts Live Set From Amy Macdonald March 8, 2010
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- 'Online Payforit' Provides Payment Solution for Multiple Services March 9, 2010
- Netgem outlines its vision of the future of TV At IPTV World Forum 2010 March 9, 2010
- British Museum to Present at MarketingSherpa's 2nd Annual Germany Email Marketing Summit 2010 March 8, 2010
- GALA 2010 Focuses on the Future of Global Content Delivery March 5, 2010
- It's a Wrap! Playfish Announce Winners of Pet Society Movie Awards March 5, 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...