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71% Of Adults Online Use Video Sharing Sites
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Online video is soaring. 71% of online Americans now use video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, up from 66% a year earlier, according to a new Pew Internet survey. The use of video-sharing sites on any given day also jumped 5% from 23% in May 2010 to 28% in May 2011. Rural internet users are now just as likely as users in urban and suburban areas to have used these sites, and online African-Americans and Hispanics are more likely ...
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Ready to Ditch the in-Dash CD Player? Ford Is...
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Digital Music News
Last time we checked, CDs were still selling in the hundreds of millions per year. But automakers have multi-year product cycles to think about, which is why Ford is now officially ditching the in-dash CD player—just like the tape player before it. “In-car entertainment technology is moving digital more rapidly than almost any other element of the vehicle experience," said Sheryl Connelly, global trends and futuring manager at Ford Motor Company. “The in-car CD player—much like pay telephones—is destined to ...
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Streaming, on-Demand Services Reaching Just 10% of Americans...
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Digital Music News
This is either the beginning of a huge opportunity, or a really huge buzzkill. According to stats just released by Nielsen, the broad range of streaming and on-demand audio services in the US command an active user base of just 10.2 percent, with near-zero growth.
Make no mistake, this is a pre-Spotify study, though it does track a total of 18 of services that include Rhapsody, Last.fm, Pandora, Napster, iHeartRadio, MOG, and Blip.fm. Which might be exactly the point: is ...
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Songpier Turns Any Song into an App for Free
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If you've been wishing you could get your Bjork on, now you can with a Songpier mobile web app for every song on your next album. Songpier does not offer native apps like those available on iTunes, instead they allow you to create an HTML5 mobile web app that is viewable on a variety of smartphones and desktops. Though you may not be winning awards for app design and you can't really sell the darn things, you will be getting ...
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Who's Gonna Gain, Who's Gonna Lose This Summer...
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Digital Music News
There are huge downsides to going public, including a raft of laws related to financial disclosures. Bottom-scraper The Orchard (ORCD) eventually quit this game and closed its books to the world, while Pandora (P) is now showing us its non-profitability for the first time. And, here's the list of music companies about to show us more—for better or for worse. Consensus earnings data from Zacks Earnings Consensus (zacks.com). Apple (AAPL): July 19th, consensus +$5.81 per share. SanDisk (SNDK): July 21st, ...
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John Mayer: Twitter Killed My Ability to Write a Song...
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Digital Music News
There's a reason why some artists quit Twitter—or, never start an account at all. “I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore," John Mayer told a group of students at Berklee College of Music. “And I was a tweetaholic." Sounds funny at first, except when Mayer reflected onthe impact on his songwriting. “I had four million Twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using Twitter as an outlet and ...
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Consumers Value Photos Much More Than Music [study]
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Although consumers spend billions of dollars on digital music annually, 74% percent value photos or documents over music, according to a new survey from cloud storage provider MiMedia. Other findings of the study include:
45% of adults polled said their photos, videos, music and documents are worth over $1,000 When asked which digital files are most important, 41% said photos, followed by 33% for documents, 19% for music and 8% for videos. 72% have experienced data ...
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