All Entries Tagged With: "News Corp"
MySpace Music: Going Freemium?
This past week has revealed MySpace to be in quite a slump. First, there has been speculation that MySpace is considering moving to a paid model. According to an interview by paidContent with News Corp. digital chief Jon Miller there is interest in the “freemium” music model. TechCrunch further investigated and is sure free streaming [...]
Is Subscription Model of the Future Bundled Media?
At a social TV conference I chaired earlier this year, a speaker from Screen Digest said, “Subscriptions don’t work.” I asked other speakers if they thought this was a viable business model for any area of online video, or even digital media as a whole. Most agreed there was a lack of consumer appetite to [...]







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...


