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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 [...]
Digging Into The Reserves: Worth Losing The Best Ones First?
Sony has had much reason to celebrate this weekend as Michael Jackson’s rehearsal documentary “This Is It” pulled in $101 million worldwide in its first five days. “This Is It” certainly has a shot to break the record of most successful concert film in the US, currently held by Miley Cyrus’s “The Best of Both [...]
Vevo Valued at $300 Million?
Yesterday it was reported that Universal Music execs were on the road pitching for investment in Vevo, Universal’s joint venture with Sony Music. They are giving the yet-to-be-launched music video channel a $300 million valuation, more than Spotify even. This, of course, is psychotic.
Generally speaking, investors have been very wary of record labels. They don’t [...]
The New Music TV?
I recently wrote an article about the inevitable transformation of the current passive and limited interactive TV experience into social TV of the future where widgets we use on our iPhone’s are transported to our TV screens. See http://www.nma.co.uk/opinion/the-union-of-social-media-and-tv-has-a-bright-future/3001681.article
For music, this becomes especially intriguing given the current state of music programming on [...]
Michael Jackson, and The Media
For over 40 years, Michael Jackson dominated every medium in which his music was featured. From his early days in the Jackson 5, throughout his solo career and right up to his death, he was front and center across radio, television and, later, online.
Views on UK Youth and Music Survey 2009
Marrakesh Records and Human Capital are soon to publish a survey of over one thousand 15-24 year olds exposing their listening habits and attitudes to music discovery courtesy of the IMMF.
To make reading it more fun, TMV decided it would be interesting to get outspoken digital music business pioneer and agent provocateur, Wayne Rosso to [...]
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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...
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...