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The Death of the Non-Technical CEO...
Can a non-technical CEO lead a successful music company these days? Of course, everyone has a patchwork of different experiences and skills, but many of the big, rising stars haveserious technical prowess. That certainly includes guys like Ian Rogers (TopSpin), Daniel Ek (Spotify), Eric Garland (BigChampagne), and Michael Doernberg (ReverbNation), all of whom are leading front-running ...
The Historical Accident of Artists Getting Paid...
Is the era of artists getting handsomely paid for their work over? Or, getting paid at all, for that matter? Was it just a fleeting moment that's now getting handed back? “You have to remember that it's only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money," Francis Ford Coppola recently expressed ...
Embrace This? 23.8% of All Internet Traffic Involves "Digital Theft..."
Let's be honest. Can this really be embraced? According to the latest study, conducted by NBC Universal alongside Envisional, 23.8 percent of global internet traffic involves “digital theft." That is, trading via BitTorrent, cyberlockers, and unauthorized video streaming sites, among other channels. In the US, the figure drops to 17 percent. “Bottom line, according to this ...
Is Hope Over? The Darker Tone of 2011...
The party line used to involve catch-phrases like 'this is the most exciting time' and 'music consumption is up,' etc., etc. But why are executives suddenly shifting their rap? Perhaps this is simple realism setting in, though a few statements at Midem were strikingly different—and darker—in tone. “We're on an edge of whether this business falls ...
Worth the Gamble? Rdio Lands the Latest Round...
Rdio's got that shine that attracts investors, but is this a horse that'll still be trotting in five years? Well, the guys at Mangrove Capital Partners think so. The Luxembourg-based VCs are the latest to plunk down on Rdio, according to details confirmed by partner publication paidContent. The tip-off was an off-the-cuff tweet by Mangrove cofounder ...
Is This Working? 95% of the Top-Charting iTunes Singles Are $1.29...
Is this strategy screaming for change? We just took a look at the top 100 singles on the iTunes Store (for Friday afternoon), and found that 95 of them were priced at $1.29. The remaining 5 were $0.99, and none were $0.69. Meanwhile, paid downloads are flattening (up just 1% in the US in 2010 last ...
Coachella: It's Already Sold Out!
In retrospect, it seems rather obvious. Of course a three-day mega-festival in the middle of a scorching desert, hours from major cities, and with tickets hovering around $300 would work! Who would have thought otherwise? Actually, there was a moment when Coachella seemed like a total prayer. And at one point, according to the organizers, Coachella ...
If Apple Squeezes Magazines, Are Music Services Next?
Something is happening in the iPad publishing world that has music subscription services worried. Depends on who you talkto, but we now know that Apple is moving to require magazines to block non-app subscription payments. Meaning, magazines (or newspapers, or whatever) will no longer be able to collect their own money and data for iPad subs—rather, ...
Exclusive: Sonicbids Now Making a Serious Move into Facebook...
Updated, 11:45 am PCT: Digital Music News readers can use promo code DMN2011 to get a 30-day free trial. So who's the latest to dive into Facebook? That would be Sonicbids, a company that is about to announce a serious expansion into the network. This is an involved artist profile builder that further broadens the Sonicbids ...
The Tremendous Pressure Being Placed on Artists Today...
"When you talk to artists and people that work with artists, they very rarely talk about tools. Because they know, this is their business. They know that it works best when the tools disappear. If you have a great connection with a fanbase on a particular platform, it's not about that platform—it's not aboutTwitter—it's about your ...
