Digital Music Forum
Next week I’ll be at the Digital Music Forum in LA! Check out the link…and I’ll be back with new things after the trip!
“With a little help from my friends”. That could be the title of the upcoming marketing campaign supporting the launch of digitally remastered Beatles catalog on CD. The launch will coincide with the release of videogame The Beatles: Rock Band.
That campaign is unprecedented in the history of music marketing and merchandising.
Apple has approved the iPhone version of Spotify’s music streaming application! An Apple spokeswoman confirmed. However the app will run only in countries where Spotify is licensed – Sweden, Norway, Britain, Spain, Finland and France.
The news:
A major internet service provider in Ireland – UPS Ireland – has refused to block access to the Pirate Bay at the request of the four major music labels. UPS said in a statement:
Almost every day we hear news of another big newspaper having financial troubles. And in the same time new strategies surface, trying to make up with the lost revenue by adopting new business models, more aligned with the digital revolution.
Next week I’ll be at the Digital Music Forum in LA! Check out the link…and I’ll be back with new things after the trip!
This deal might represent a historical move towards reshaping the whole concept of a music label. The focus of selling high-priced CDs and rely on that sale as a main source of revenue is not a sustainable business model anymore. … Continue Reading
MySpace got some new improvements. News updates and more effective highlights on MySpace exclusives. Still not what I would expect , but it’s an improvement worth mentioning.
Apple announced declining iPod sales as consumers choose iPhones or iPod Touch. Is that because the built in WIFI capabilities? Does that mean the beginning of the end for mp3 downloading era? I will definitely come back and elaborate on this topic right after my Finance exam on Monday.
New Media Age surveyed its readers about how many of them would upgrade to the premium version of Spotify – with no ads, CD quality streaming and running on the iPhone as an app. One third of them would upgrade. Just to do the math, five million users, one third of which are premium subscribers, paying $15 per month equals 270 million in annual subscription revenue. That’s a nice figure considering how young is Spotify. Just as a reminder, U.S. total music sales in 2008 was 1,513 billion (BusinessWire). Projecting the same revenue for next year, means Spotify could capture almost 18% from the whole industry revenue!
See you all next week!
It didn’t take to much for the entire The Beatles remastered catalog to leak. Set to be released on 09.09.09, the whole catalog was on the major torrent websites, music blogs, and hosting sites during the weekend. Some of the comments to the leaks argue that these are not the newly remastered tracks, but the ones released years ago. However, the files are there and millions of people are downloading them. While I’ve seen comments like “Awesome sound, I’ll buy it anyways when in stores”, I’m sure there’s gonna be a lot of folks for whom the download will be good enough. … Continue Reading
“With a little help from my friends”. That could be the title of the upcoming marketing campaign supporting the launch of digitally remastered Beatles catalog on CD. The launch will coincide with the release of videogame The Beatles: Rock Band.
That campaign is unprecedented in the history of music marketing and merchandising. … Continue Reading
Apple has approved the iPhone version of Spotify’s music streaming application! An Apple spokeswoman confirmed. However the app will run only in countries where Spotify is licensed – Sweden, Norway, Britain, Spain, Finland and France. … Continue Reading
Starting today, August 26 Bandit.fm online music offering is going “live.” That permits artists to upload and sell recordings straight from the mixing desk, with secured royalties! That’s what I called distribution chain optimization! Getting the maximum revenue by cutting the middle man! … Continue Reading
The news:
A major internet service provider in Ireland – UPS Ireland – has refused to block access to the Pirate Bay at the request of the four major music labels. UPS said in a statement: … Continue Reading
Almost every day we hear news of another big newspaper having financial troubles. And in the same time new strategies surface, trying to make up with the lost revenue by adopting new business models, more aligned with the digital revolution. … Continue Reading
“With a little help from my friends”. That could be the title of the upcoming marketing campaign supporting the launch of digitally remastered Beatles catalog on CD. The launch will coincide with the release of videogame The Beatles: Rock Band.
That campaign is unprecedented in the history of music marketing and merchandising.
Apple has approved the iPhone version of Spotify’s music streaming application! An Apple spokeswoman confirmed. However the app will run only in countries where Spotify is licensed – Sweden, Norway, Britain, Spain, Finland and France.
The news:
A major internet service provider in Ireland – UPS Ireland – has refused to block access to the Pirate Bay at the request of the four major music labels. UPS said in a statement:
Almost every day we hear news of another big newspaper having financial troubles. And in the same time new strategies surface, trying to make up with the lost revenue by adopting new business models, more aligned with the digital revolution.
OurStage, the music discovery site that likened itself to an “online American Idol” has raised $840,000 worth of what would become a $6 million second round of funding (per an SEC filing).
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Three new investors have backed Spotify at a valuation of $250 million, according to paidContent.
Investors may include the Li Ka Shing Foundation, which is controlled by Hong Kong investor Li Ka Shing, who has invested $120 million in Facebook and has also invested in Joost. VC Firm Wellington Partners is also participating, according to the [...]
Social music discovery service iLike has introduced a new iPhone app to alert users when artists they like will be playing in their area.
The Local Concerts app scans the music on the iPod Touch or iPhone and provides a customer concert listing for the artists stored in the device.
Apple has joined forces with four major record labels on a mission to get music buyers to start buying albums again instead of just single tracks, the Financial Times reports. The project—codenamed “Cocktail”—will bundle album downloads with lyrics sheets, sleeve notes, photos, and assorted interactive features
The Southern California Broadcasters Association has taken issue with a Boston.com story that portrays radio as almost being on its death bed. The article doesn’t cite one statistic showing changes in listening habits the type of young adults it quotes.
News Corp hopes to transform MySpace, into a stronger online videogaming platform in order to reposition the six-year-old site as an entertainment destination.
Under new ownership, the file-sharing powerhouse Pirate Bay is going legit through an innovative payment model, the AP reports. The new system will involve user fees, but users can work those off—or even earn a profit—in part by sharing their computers’ storage capacity with the Pirate Bay network.