Vodafone Targets Mobile Broadband
The world’s biggest mobile carrier (by revenue) today announced that it has finally seen the light for mobile consumer data and plans to more tightly inte... Read more.
Are Fan-Funded Models The Future Of The Recorded Music Business?
Does last week’s announcement of another fan funded music business model called Bandstocks, reinforce the feeling that labels are beginning to lose their attr... Read more.
How Does The Live Business Utilize Mobile To Maximise Event Stickiness And Merchandising Opportunities?
In the digital space an extension from online to mobile is a necessity for the live music sector to build a one to one connection with their consumers and gener... Read more.
In Defense Of MySpace Music
Bob Lefsetz earlier this week slated Myspace music and its major label partners attempt to build a proposition, which may be aimed at taking the digital music r... Read more.
Big Sales Without iTunes
I was intrigued recently reading a response to one of Bob Lefsetz emails from Kid Rock discussing how it was not necessary to be on iTunes to have large sales o... Read more.
Are 360 Deals Now Dead In The Water?
With rumours of Live Nation looking to license back the artists they recently signed to major labels are 360 deals dead? A conglomerate pays mega millions to ar... Read more.
ISPs Agree Deal With Music Industry And UK Government To Tackle Illegal Filesharing
Firstly, let me applaud this agreement as a step in the right direction. Let me ask all these file sharers screaming that the Radiohead business model worked so... Read more.
What Do Brands Offer That Traditional Labels Do Not?
For a start according to Jermaine Dupri head honcho at Island Def Jam Music Group nobody in the music business has the marketing budget he does. Why? Because Pr... Read more.
On-Device Portals By-Pass Content Discovery & Mobile Search Shortcomings; But Do They Also Point The Way To Wider Markets & Greater Revenues?
This year is indisputably the break-out year for ODPs, as brands discover new ways to use the client application to engage users on their mobile phone. However,... Read more.
