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31 Digital Music Execs Sound off on How P2P Battle Led to Music Industry Demise
A fascinating new report from Associate Professor Michael A. Carrier at Rutgers University School of Law, entitled “Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story", interviews 31 CEOs, company founders and VPs who have worked in digital music over the past 10 years. It illustrates the digital music landscape in the aftermath Napster's shutdown, demonstrating how the battle ...
Curation: The Evolution of the Global Brain
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. “Those who can, do. Those who can't, review. Those who can't review, tweet. Those who can't tweet retweet." That quote is zinging around the internet this week. People are attributing it to Esquire, although I'm not finding it there. I first saw it, ironically, on Facebook. It's also ...
Ticketleap Relaunches with Mobile Box Office and Easy Seating Chart Creation
With the recent direct ticketing success of Louis CK ticketing is back on the news agenda. But ticketing has been an incredibly active area of development on the web all along. TicketLeap's recent relaunch is an example of both ongoing development in the ticketing industry and improvements in ticketing services. Beyond a site redesign, TicketLeap has ...
Artists and Labels Must Accept the New Music Industry
Guest post by Gregory Haberek, artist manager and co-founder of All For The Addicts Management. Music has been a part of human culture since the beginning of history, and it continues to transcend language barriers, belief systems, and remains completely open to interpretation. Musicians create works of art through emotional expression and artists create because they ...
Music Festivals Profit from Cultural Shifts to Quality Topped off with Luxury
The Researchist, a market research blog, recently took a look at luxury offerings at three music festivals, Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. Since I don't follow the luxury market and haven't gone to any of these festivals I had not realized the kind of amenities afforded those with money to burn. However, their brief report is somewhat ...
Twitter's Breakup with Linkedin Signals a New Direction - But is It the Right One?
After a nearly three-year partnership, LinkedIn has announced that posts from Twitter will no longer be displayed on their site. The news comes as Twitter works to encourage users to visit its own services directly and not through third parties, or as Twitter's Chief of Products Michael Sippey said in a recent blog post, to provide ...
Google Unveils Nexus Q: 8 Things It Will Do for Music Fans
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Yesterday, Google announced a new hardware device: Google Nexus Q, a $300 Android entertainment system for the home that Google calls “the first social streaming media player." Here's what it will do for music fans, according to what we know so far: Change Color With the Beat. The ...
Louis CK Shows Music Industry How Direct Ticketing Defeats Scalpers [100k Tickets / $4.5m / 2 Days]
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Our piece about what funnyman Louis CK is teaching the music industry has attracted a fair amount of attention on the web this week — and as such, it's only fair to follow up with information about how his strategy of selling tickets directly to fans, for one ...
Denial of a Digital Lifestyle: Living the Life of an Ostrich (with Your Head in the Sand)
Guest post by Brian Thompson of Thorny Bleeder. According to legends (although there is no evidence to show that this is true), ostriches have a tendency to bury their heads in the sand as a way to avoid danger. Today, people are often said to bury their heads in the sand when they refuse to confront ...
This Label Earns Almost 80% of Revenue from Spotify
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. When a Swede talks about Spotify, it helps to have a grain of salt nearby. The freemium streaming service seems to be something of a matter of national pride over there. Some places, like England or Jamaica, invent major musical styles that traverse the world. Sweden produced the ...
