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Should New Albums Cost $1?
Rob Dickens, a former Warner Music executive, told BCC News that he thinks music prices should be radically reduced. He thinks that is albums were marked down to $1, sales would explode. If fans wanted a new album, they'd just go buy it. At a time when some in the industry are worried about fans thinking ...
Google Shares Impressive YouTube Stats
Google shared some impressive Q3 earnings numbers this week and for the first time broke down a bit more of how they achieved it. While Google didn't share specific revenue numbers for YouTube, they did say that they are now monetizing an impressive 2 billion views per week. That's a jump of 50% from last year. ...
MTT: The Music Manipulation Curve (Theory)
Bruce Warila discusses the constant trend of moving toward easier listening formats that allow for personalization on demand. Sites like Pandora utilize user feedback and hire professionals to break down songs and figure out what to recommend to listeners. Bruce thinks that services that feature “ubiquitous, on-demand streaming (or even downloading) of any song, brilliant user ...
Program or Be Programmed: It's Your Choice Now
When we talk about the young and the digital, we tend to reflect on the significance of them living cradle to the grave with access to digital technologies and their proficiently with them. Technology appears to be intuitive. We focus solely on their use of technology and say little of how they're getting used by it. ...
10 Truths About the Modern Recording Industry
(UPDATED) Fellow music industry journalist and net friend Jason Feinberg published a post yesterday on MediaShift where he chronicled the ten things that he believes to be true about the modern music business. Not to be left out of the fun, I decided to form my own list of truths. Over the course of the last ...
"To Me, Data is the New Asset Base," Says Ethan Kaplan, SVP of Emerging Technology at WMG. PT. 2
This is part two of my interview with Ethan Kaplan, who is author of the semi-famous music industry blog BlackRimGlasses and SVP of Emerging Technology at WMG. In the second segment, Kaplan talks about his perspective on embracing as much chaos as the record and music industries can stand, artists and their attitudes towards new technologies, ...
T Bone Burnett: New Artists Should "Stay Completely Away from the Internet."
T Bone Burnett had some choice words to give up-and-coming artists at the FMC Policy Summit last week: “Stay completely away from the internet." It's a rather provocative statement. The reason he gives is that once an artist joins the legions of bands on MySpace they've already lost. That by uploading their music to the web ...
Neurotic Media Deploys New B2B Marketing Tools
Neurotic Media, a tech-enabled distribution service, has expanded its platform features with the addition of marketing services for its record label clients. They can now use features like “album pre-order with instant gratification" or “deluxe album" tools to promote new releases at MP3 retailers. Brands can use the new “animated feature controls" in their to display ...
MTT: Is Your Music Lost in Translation?
In his recent post, Max Willens explores the difficulty of translating and bringing ideas into the real world. He references a New York Times editorial, Found in Translation, which describes the challenge of transforming an idea into a novel. Similarly, artists struggle with how satisfied they are with their work. Max brings up some interesting questions ...
"Our Spend Per Fan Regularly Eclipses the $100 Mark," Says Benji Rogers of Pledgemusic. PT. 2
This is part two of my interview segment with Benji Rogers, founder of PledgeMusic, a crowdfunding platform for music and creativity. In the next segment, Rogers talks about the role of super fans in campaigns and their influence on sales, his optimism about the future of recorded music and artistry, and how his site plays into the ...
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