All Entries Tagged With: "Music Ally"
Mobile Music At The Crossroads
This past Monday, I moderated a panel at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, California. The topic: Establishing the personalized mobile music experience. While the panelists didn’t reach any earth-shaking conclusions, it became clear that mobile is definitely the final link in the evolution of music’s transition from a product-based business model to service-based [...]
Filesharing (Anarchy) In The UK
A recently released Music Ally/The Leading Question survey reports that the overall percentage of regular file sharers in the UK has dropped 5% from December 2007 to January 2009. Or at least those who admit to file sharing. Yet the percentage of music fans that have ever file-shared has increased from 28% to 31% over the same time period.







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...


