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File-Sharing is Still Surging. then Again, so is Everything Else...
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Digital Music News
Maybe the boom-boom days of file-sharing increases are over, but swapping volumes are still gaining in the double-digits. Then again, so is everything else, including on-demand video and audio, illegal locker sharing, and for that matter, mobile media consumption. In fact, on-demand video is now beating file-sharing growth volumes, according to Cisco's just-published Visual Networking Index (VNI). This is the latest attempt to measure the dizzying surgeof internet and mobile traffic, and the broader numbers are staggering. Cisco says that ...
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Want More Fans to Pay? Then Double the Price...
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Digital Music News
This is the part where you burn your Econ 101 textbook. Because in certain situations, fans will actually buy more if the price is higher. In the car business, this has been a lesson for brands like Cadillac, where experiments in lower-priced models destroyed the perception of higher-end quality. Once the prices were lifted again, status-conscious buyers returned.
But this anomaly goes beyond luxury automobiles. In the music space, Stageit founder Evan Lowenstein (formerly of Evan & Jaron) is pursuing ...
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Music Gets Mobile: 34% of U.S. Broadband Users Access Music on Their Phone
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While 50% of U.S. broadband households prefer the computer as their digital music access point, the proliferation of smartphones, connected devices and cloud-based services are changing that. In 2010, 34% of U.S. broadband consumers were using their mobile phone as a music player, up from 9% in 2007, according to a new Parks Associates report. That's expect to rise dramatically in 2011 and beyond. In response, digital music services like Pandora, Spotify, Slacker, MOG and others are aggressively forming partnerships ...
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Paid Content Passes Piracy on Web for First Time
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For the first time in the history of the internet, traffic in paid content has passed piracy according to the Spring Traffic Report from Sandvine. Netflix provided the tipping point as the movie service mades up 22.2% of all U.S. broadband traffic compared to BitTorrent's 21.6%. At peak times, Netflix can consume 30%.of all traffic. The lesson for music? There are some things people will pay for on the web. The big question is how to make music one of ...
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Vinyl Projected to Grow More Than 25 Percent in 2011...
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Digital Music News
We've certainly questioned the hype surrounding vinyl, especially when compared to numbers for CDs or even album downloads. But instead of hitting a plateau or fading out, signs are pointing to aggressive growth in 2011. How much growth, exactly? At a NARM presentation in Los Angeles last week, Nielsen projected a gain of more than 25 percent gain in 2011 in the US. That would still put vinyl at a small 1.6 percent of broader physical sales (numbers below are ...
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58.5% Of British Music Buyers Only Purchase CDs...
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Digital Music News
In 2011? Yes, according to trade group BPI, which just released the stat as part of its 'Annual Yearbook.' Actually, the 58.5 percent figure is for 2010 and also includes some fringe physical formats, though CDs easily dominate this category. “Taken as a whole, 58.5 percent of music buyers bought physical formats only in 2010, down from 65.8 percent in 2009," the BPI shared.
Looks like the CD is a slow-leaking balloon. But on the flip side, 17.2 percent only ...
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