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It’s Windowing Jim, But Not As We Know It 23 Jul 2013 | 07:10 pm
Back in 2009 I wrote a report for Forrester Research entitled ‘Music Release Windows: The Product Innovation That The Music Industry Can’t Do Without’ (you can read the summary blog post here, and the...
Streaming’s Dirty Dozen 17 Jul 2013 | 10:29 pm
Atoms for Peace’s Thom Yorke and Nigel Goodrich’s much publicized decision to withdraw their music from Spotify added to a small but growing band of streaming hold-outs. Rather than add to the surplus...
Why EDM is a Genre and Not Just a Marketing Term 12 Jul 2013 | 03:41 pm
A recent social media spat between Deadmau5 and Afrojack regarding creativity in EDM caught my eye. A quick summation of the debate was that Afrojack said you just needed your track to be ‘good’ to be...
Artist Interviews Wanted! 3 Jul 2013 | 08:52 pm
As part of my forthcoming book on the digital music market I am looking at what it means to be an artist in the digital age. The sorts of issues I’ll be looking at include: Changes in artist income,...
Streaming Artist Subscriptions: A Product Strategy Proposal 24 Jun 2013 | 02:12 pm
The following post is an excerpt from my forthcoming book: Meltdown For all of the undoubted positive impact that streaming services continue to have on the digital music market one of the key challe...
Meltdown: Recasting the Mold 21 Jun 2013 | 10:30 pm
By now some of you will know that I am in the latter stages of writing a book that I hope will prove to be the definitive account of the digital music market, tracking its origins, the current state o...
Google Trialing Music Playback in Search? 16 Jun 2013 | 10:21 pm
It appears that Google might be experimenting with some form of music playback in search results when using its Chrome browser. In a number of incidents a song or lyrics has been searched for and aft...
iTunes Radio: Another Chapter in Apple’s Cautious Cloud Music Strategy 11 Jun 2013 | 12:13 am
As expected Apple today announced the launch of the music industry’s worst kept secret iTunes Radio, a Pandora-like personalized radio service. iTunes Radio is integrated into the new iOS7, is free w...
Making Freemium Add Up 21 May 2013 | 02:55 pm
Today at MIDiA Consulting we have released a new report on the digital content sector entitled ‘Making Freemium Add Up’. The report combines an unprecedented appraisal of key freemium service metrics ...
Songkick Detour And The Middle Class Musician 17 May 2013 | 01:49 am
Songkick today announced the official launch of Detour, which it has been successfully trialing in a small invite-only beta until now. At risk of over simplifying, the basic concept of Detour is ena...
