All Entries Tagged With: "Rhapsody"
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 [...]
Pandora – The Elusive Box That May Save the Industry
At year’s end while other online music services appear to be in a state of tumult with acquisition or dwindling revenues (as well as uncertainty in Spotify’s case), Pandora appears to be doing very strongly in the US. After potentially compromising struggles with funding and licensing rates, the personalized online radio service has reported a [...]
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 [...]
Lala: From the Bottom of the Barrel to the Crest of the Wave
The only news of Lala in the past year was WMG’s writing down half of its $20 million investment in the site, grimly citing “lower expectations of digital music sales”. But this week introduced three new prospective projects for the streaming site; an iPhone app and deals with Facebook and Google. Lala could soon be [...]
Does Streaming Cannibalise A-La-Carte Sales?
In Europe, particularly the UK, uptake of music streaming services has been explosive. The two services driving this explosion are we7.com and Spotify. Almost each week you hear media reports of one being larger than the other in terms of the number of consumers using their “free” ad-funded services. Yet if the service is free [...]
Supply And Demand in The Age Of Infinite Supply
Ted Cohen, questions the argument that if digital download prices were lowered, uptake and conversion of pirates to legal purchasing of tracks will increase.
Lily Allen Steps Up
Hooray for Lily Allen, she had the guts to stand up and say enough is enough, “File-sharing’s not OK for British music. I want to get people working together to use new digital opportunities to encourage new artists.” Not since Metallica’s stance against Napster ten years ago has an artist so boldly stood up [...]
Mobile Medicine
Wayne Rosso drills down on mobile revenues and the potential for increasing sales volumes of digital music generally.
Morality in the Digital Age
There has been a tremendous amount of debate following the Tennenbaum trial, most of around the perceived severity of the damages awarded by the jury. Many believed that the music industry was unfairly punishing Joel for what many saw as a minor offense, he shared a couple dozen songs on the Internet. What was [...]
Is The 800 Pound Gorilla Gaining Weight?
TMV columnist Wayne Rosso, jumps into the licensing and streaming rate debate with some very pertinent questions relating to the biggest retailer of them all. Apple!
It is certainly no secret that Apple has grown into the dominant music retailer. Nobody is even close to them in the digital realm. Amazon is a distant second.
This raises [...]
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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...
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...