All Entries Tagged With: "Edgar Boffman Jnr"
The Continued Devaluation of Music
With numerous new start-ups entering the digital music space, many of them ad-funded based, what is the effect on à-la-carte sales? Going further why do labels constantly state game developers/publishers and new business models undervalue their recorded music content? Over the last decade we have witnessed an obvious sea change in the manner in which [...]
PART 1: The Streaming Music Business – How Sustainable Is It?
With some artists claiming they would “rather be raped by The Pirate Bay” than have Spotify streaming their music and pay a pittance – what is the sustainability of streaming music services? TMV drills down and analyses the three key elements to a sustainable streaming future; content owners, streaming services and advertisers in three separate [...]







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...


