by Mike McGuire | December 22, 2008 | Comments Off
Conflicting reports as to YouTube’s revenue-generating potential were brought to us in the past week, and within the same news cycles, we also got news that the label’s industry group, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is going to eliminate its years-long campaign of suing alleged individual file-sharers. First, we have this article in [...]
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by Mike McGuire | December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
So there are already a heap of stories and speculation about Apple’s decision to stop participating at the Macworld Expo trade show. Here’s one and here’s another, both from AppleInsider. Maintain perspective with the second because it’s a rehash of speculation made after an Apple product launch in October. At the event, COO Tim [...]
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by Mike McGuire | December 9, 2008 | Comments Off
So why does this keep coming up as a news item? This year’s decline in CD sales is the worst. Ever! Reports like this are like watching a footage of a car crash in slow motion and exclaiming every couple of seconds “It’s really going to crash…It’s closer to crashing.” A lot of these stories [...]
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by Mike McGuire | December 9, 2008 | Comments Off
Jeez, how hard does a music exec have to work these days? First, the Internet and the consumers using it to trade music files destroy the business model for a CD. Now label execs have to compete with advertising agencies for band contracts? Yep, they do, witness this item describing how a band is using [...]
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