Seen that? – Google’s touch reaches digital music
Google’s touch reaches digital music Digital Music – The Future
Emmis Communications, the 9th largest US radio network group is installing ad-insertion technology from dMarc, which Google recently bought for $1.2 billion. More on the technology: "[dMarc] RevenueSuite works directly through each radio station's digital automation systems to automatically insert paid commercials into open and unsold slots, thus maximizing the stations' sell-through and revenue capability. As a ready-to-operate service with minimal operational impact, RevenueSuite updates the traffic log, distributes pre-encoded creative, and generates real-time affidavits for [...] Read More
Digital music doldrums – Long-term change Digital Music – The Future
This article is one in a series examining the Pali Capital report that showed paid music download growth is slowing. Long-term change The long-term message is that the industry's problems can no longer be obscured by digital. Does this spell doom for music? It depends on your definition of music. Independent artists are thriving through the Internet and P2P. Big music though is another story. While the industry falsely blames others [...] Read More
2005: record year for digital music Digital Music – The Future
2005 was a record year for digital music. At the same time P2P use continues to grow. Christmas was a fabulous week. 20 million Tracks were sold in the last week of the year, three times the previous year. This is compared to P2P where 250 songs are downloaded in a week. Accordingly to the article: "If the market can retain volume gain as it did last year, the numbers [...] Read More
Google’s CIO to head EMI Digital The CIO Weblog
CNET news is reporting that current Google CIO Douglas Merrill is leaving the company to take the helm at music industry giant EMI's digital unit. It hasn't been so long since February's interview where Merrill claimed to have "the best CIO job in the world" so you have to wonder if the position went downhill that fast or he decided he didn't want to be a CIO. Or, more likely, EMI [...] Read More
Digital music, the next generation: MP3Tunes+Beamer An Apple Beater? P2P File Sharing
+ > ? Michael Robertson has unveiled his master plan. If Apple is going to be beat, it is not through YAOMS (Yet Another Online Music Store), a relic of the old days when records were vinyl, retail meant stores, and the labels played god. The game would have to be changed, much as it was when Apple designed their YAOMS (iTunes) as a promotional engine for their [...] Read More
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