All Entries Tagged With: "Free All Music"
The Resurrection of Spiral Death, er Frog.
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 download begins. Let’s face it. [...]
Another Free Download Music Start Up
Ok. Here we go again. A couple marketing guys from Atlanta have announced their new ad-supported music download site. Free All Music. Co-founders Richard Nailing and Brian McCourt think their site will succeed because it’s monetized on a cost-per-action (CPA) vs. cost-per-impression (CPM) basis; users have to watch a 15-second online video ad for every [...]







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...


