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Business
on September 30, 2009
In some newly publishd stats, we are seeing once more just how big Youtube has become; the site becoming a literal giant of the net. Ten billion video views in the month of August, almost 2 for every ...
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Business
on June 18, 2009
Grooveshark has always been a bit of an oddball in the online world, inititally starting as a complex peer to peer paid download system, before moving onto a social on demand system with the ability t...
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Business
on May 30, 2009
I'll admit, I'm a bit of a Zune fanboy; it's a quality device with better software, and in my opinon, hardware than the competition from Apple, and seeing the above device being announce...
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Business
on April 26, 2009
The Pirate Bay have always defined the image of defiant internet rights; they threw caution to the wind, ignored legal requests, and have now met their match in Swedish courts, with the entire adminis...
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Business
on February 4, 2009
Okay, admittedly slightly off the topic of digital music, but still pretty relevant. I found out a fairly suprising fact today, that unlike in the UK, US radio stations do not have to pay royalities f...
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Business
on September 16, 2008
Metalica, the once notorious digital music haters, recently released their latest album, Death Magnetic, with a new attitude to the subject. They decided they needed to embrace the digital world thr...
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Business
on August 13, 2008
PlayLouder have a good idea; offseting illegaly downloaded music by taking a chunk of an ISPs fee and distributing it to labels in royalities. Unfortunatly there is a big problem with this; there is a...
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Business
on August 12, 2008
Napster, since it's reinvention, has done well, despite the knowledge that it will always play second fiddle to the massive iTunes. As such it's unfortunate to see revenues slip from 32milli...
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Apple
, Business
, Companies
, Industry
on September 4, 2007
Hollywood has longed resented Apple's distribution power. iTunes is so dominant that Apple has been able to set pricing and terms.
The entertainment industry is fighting back by supporting other...
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Business
, Commentary
, Retail
on September 3, 2007
The NPD Group, in conjunction with NARM, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, said that consumer rejection of the CD format and use of digital files, iPods, and P2P are not the reason ...
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Business
, Commentary
, Society & Public Policy
on August 29, 2007
In Producers howl over sound cut out by MP3 compression, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes about anguished record producers. MP3 files lose 90% of data stores in the Recording studio.
The mass co...
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Business
, Commentary
, Industry
on August 14, 2007
Rolling Stone published an in-depth feature on The Record Industry's Decline. Now that a new generation of executives is driving the record companies, they can admit what everyone else has known f...
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Analysis
, Business
, Industry
on August 9, 2007
If the music biz thinks its declining business will get easier, it's dead wrong. To the contrary, it's a harbinger for the rest of the digital entertainment sector.
That's the conclusion ...
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Business
, Commentary
, Marketing
on July 24, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing.
1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas
2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple
3. What's Your Story...
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Business
, Commentary
, Marketing
on July 19, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing.
1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas
2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple
3. What's Your Story...
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Business
, Commentary
, Industry
on July 18, 2007
What are the prospects for the P2P industry and music and video distribution now that the legal issues have been decided by the Supreme Court?
As I've previously written, the ongoing litigation ...
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Business
, Commentary
, Marketing
on July 16, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing.
1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas
2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple
3. What's Your Story...
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Artists
, Business
, Fun
, Marketing
on June 15, 2007
New York artist and former software programmer Jonathan Coulton is profiled in the New York Times magazine section. He explains how he's created a full-time living through free distribution. He wr...
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Business
, Industry
, Marketing
, Society & Public Policy
on June 12, 2007
Leading online music store eMusic with has driven song prices down as low as 25ยข if you max out their song bundles. eMusic offers over two million tracks, all in open MP3 format.
But many labels aren...
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Analysis
, Business
, DRM
on May 21, 2007
Consumers are strongly reacting negatively to DRM. But here will always be situations where it's better accepted, such as for business and hard-to-share content. I wrote about this in "The Fu...
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Artists
, Business
, Companies
, Industry
on April 12, 2007
The music business is changing. Digital downloads have empowered consumers who have turned their back on CDs and albums. Industry sales have stagnated. Successful record labels will have to diversify....
