Last Thursday I went our for my morning walk with my wife, Robyn. She told me that we had a problem with our washing machine. She thought that the motor had given up the ghost. We have had it for some time so we decided not to bother with calling a repair man and to [...]
There is a massive paradox in how digital technology changes media. It is not just the business models that are under threat – too much ink is wasted on that proposition. What is less discussed is the impact that “digital” has on the consumers. Sure it makes a lot of things free or near free. [...]
Here is a fascinating and quite insightful – and also by the way – hugely entertaining TED talk about the statistical analysis of what makes TED talks popular. While this is a lot of fun, there is actually an underlying message in all this: How you present your story has huge implications for what results [...]
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 [...]
In the last couple of days I have been involved in meetings with two fairly substantial companies on behalf of a client. Both publicly listed, one is a manufacturing company that has a large slice of the market in Australia for its products (Company 1). The other is a company that is a relatively new [...]
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 [...]
Historically, music publishing catalogues are valued at a multiple of the NPS (Net Publisher Share) with the multiple increasing or decreasing according to the perception of the future earnings potential. The NPS is the gross margin the publisher keeps after the songwriter has been paid and is made up of a basket of Performing Rights [...]
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 [...]
(Our previous article was the first upset.) This time, Canadians have made the top ten list of countries that are “out to get” the content industries. They share this dubious honour with the following countries. Priority Watch List (Links retrieve country specific pdf reports.) Argentina Canada Chile Costa Rica [...]