Amazing to think that it wasn't too long ago that EMI Records ruled the waves… This was the company that in the '60's brought us the Beatles, The Beach Boys, Gerry And the Pacemakers, Freddy And The Dreamers… Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cliff Richard, The Band… And then more recently artists such as [...]
You are an aspiring songwriter, and you get a shot at writing the theme song for a new TV series. It might be successful. It might not. You don’t know, but you do know that the guy who came up with the idea had one of the longest running series in the history of British [...]
Amazing isn't it…? There are only two major recording artists that are not legally available as digital downloads – one is AC/DC and the other is The Beatles. But someone has now put together all of the Beatles songs and videos into a “YouTube” styled interface so that you can access them all in one [...]
OR <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Why the Music Industry is Losing Money….. Whilst researching statistics for an article I am doing, I came across a little historical gem. The first CD ever issued back in 1982 was “<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />52nd Street” by Billy [...]
This is the third article in this series entitled: The Economics of Video Entertainment Part 1 Here Part 2 Here For the last couple of days I’ve been leading up to talking about the individual value proposition as to why people purchase, watch, read or listen to certain types of content. Hedonic pricing [...]
Delegates to the ACTA discussions are now safe and sound back in their home countries convinced that they have been successful in aiding in stamping out copyright infringement. History has taught us that every-time the music industry or Government enact prosecutorial or legislative actions against file sharing, the resulting pushback always seems to trump [...]
st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } If you’re not a Politician, please move along….. You probably already know this stuff. Let’s start with a little history. In 1982, Floppy disks were eight inches wide and held 180 kb of data. If you were lucky, you had a machine with two floppy disk drives and could install your [...]
We''ve enjoyed watching the growth of Farmville from nothing to the number one “Coolest Thing” on the internet.OK – it's subjective – you might not like it – but nearly 50 million users do. Thats 2.5 times the population of Australia, 1/8 the population of the USA. So it's gotta be worth a mention. The [...]
Prologue: Most of us remember the Blair Witch Project and it’s phenomenal box office success based on a number of web pages suggesting it was a real occurrence. Mythology – The Aftermath – The Legacy – The Filmmakers That was an exceptionally clever piece of PR marketing, resulting in one of the highest [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about two companies that were “listening” to their customers. In August I listed a series of video clips that were not yet available through Amazon. The reality is that the music companies are listening to the consumers. They have identified the enormous growth in digital music sales and are rushing to [...]