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Event Report @ SXSW: Wed 17th March – How Will We Listen to Music in 2020?
The future of the music industry has been painted in many ways by many people, some see it as a utopia of levies and “the cloud” and sharing and some see the industry barely existing. The uncertainty leaves many nervous about the future, so the panel “How Will We Listen to Music in 2020?” brought [...]
The Human Recommendation Engine
Wayne Rosso Talks About Barry Friedman – The Human Recommendation Engine
Return Of The Album? Pink Floyd Wins Online Bundling Right
The album’s not dead yet – well, not in Pink Floyd’s case at least. A judge has ruled in favour of the prog rock band, which went to the UK High Court for the right to have its material sold online only the form of albums, not individual singles, which have became the dominant form [...]
The Music Industry’s Demographics Problem
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) just announced the 10 billionth iTunes music download sale. An impressive statistic for sure, but not the end of the story.
As Apple often does with download milestones, it gave a prize to the 10 billionth download customer and revealed that the song downloaded was Guess Things Happen That Way by Johnny [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
The Art of Discovery
For some time the possibilities of true music discovery have been a distinct area of interest for me. I am excited by the idea of discovery that really achieves what it describes, search that allows you to find not just what you were knowingly looking for, but as if by magic, what you didn’t even [...]
The Russians Are Back
A few years ago the hugely popular AllofMP3.com, a Moscow-based service that undercut iTunes by enormous margins, was the bane of the major record labels. Not only did they undercut iTunes by massive margins, but you could also buy the entire Beatles catalog for about a buck an album. As a result, AllofMP3 became the [...]
Opportunity Knocking
This weekend whilst catching up on current news and recovering from the whirlwind of networking, meetings and elevator pitching that is Midem, I once again took stock of just how inescapable technology as a theme has become to the entertainment industry.
This was my first time at Midem, and I was interested to note that the [...]
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 [...]
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Billboard.biz- Comes With Music To Launch In India March 19, 2010
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- Accedo and Netgem Partner March 22, 2010
- Telmap and BlueSky Positioning collaborate to integrate real-time location-based and navigation services into A-GPS SIM March 18, 2010
- Facebook's first soap opera launches March 18, 2010
- Whitevector Releases New Online Discussion Based Data About Websites March 18, 2010
- Smartphones Launches College Basketball Bracket Challenge App March 17, 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...
Music Industry Payments Strategy 2010: something tedious and strenuous, or something built upon inner drive and desire?...