by Mike McGuire | October 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
With one minor turn of iPhone App Store policy dial, Apple is enabling all those developers who built “free” iPhone/iPod Touch applications to try and extract a fee for their work. For smaller publishers, or bands or independent labels or video producers, this would seem like a good thing, yes? Can you say “fremium” app, [...]
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by Mike McGuire | October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment
With today’s introduction, MOG’s All Access service, at $5/month for full interactive-stream access (pick any song, any artist in the catalog and stream the songs without playback restrictions), establishes a new price point for subscription services. While the service won’t actually be available until sometime in November 2009, it will have more than five million [...]
Category: "Beta" Online Music Search/Discovery/Recommendation Systems Tags:
by Mike McGuire | September 10, 2009 | 4 Comments
There are currently 100 million active credit cards on account with iTunes. And according to Apple, iTunes is the number one music retailer in the world. Not “number one in online downloads,” but number one. Of all channels. That, my friends, is the most important news to come out of Apple Inc.’s 09/09/09 announcement, whether [...]
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by Mike McGuire | August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment
If the Cisco-Warner Music Group deal to have Warner use Cisco’s Eos platform for developing and hosting its artists websites is any indication of the future of the music labels, it’s about using websites as a way to establish and maintain market relevance, relevance that labels maintained by the control they used to wield by [...]
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by Mike McGuire | August 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
You’ve probably seen the stories (like this one) about a rumored “new” format for packaging prerecorded online music into the new digital or interactive album. If true, the promise of some new type of content bundle could be an interesting new opportunity for music labels to redefine their roles. Or they could totally screw up [...]
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by Mike McGuire | March 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
Can the popularity of Rock Band franchise translate and extend the timeless — but let’s face it, musically archaic — Beatles catalog to a generation of folks who grew up disconnected from the album, AOR radio but have come of age in a time when music is effectively a public good? And speaking of “public [...]
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by Mike McGuire | November 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
In addition to lowering prices on its family of flash-based Zune personal media players earlier this week, Zune and its subscriber service, has gone straight past value-proposition marketing to the “freemium” handout. To-date, the Zune’s music service comprises an online service where all the Zune-DRM’d music resides, PC software and proprietary hardware players. Kind of [...]
Category: Online Music Uncategorized Tags: iTunes, online, Online Music, Zune
by Mike McGuire | October 1, 2008 | Comments Off
Pandora and its ilk look to be getting some breathing room to try and negotiate more reasonable rates with rightsholders. Good news all around, if you ask me.
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Category: Online Music Tags: Pandora, webcasting royalties
by Mike McGuire | October 1, 2008 | Comments Off
What an interesting confluence of events this week. . . If anyone ever needed proof of the notion that lawyers are the only stakeholders making money on the analog-to-digital/physical-media-to-digital transitions for the media, the last couple of days should be confirmation. First, RealNetworks releases its DVD-copying software, RealDVD, today. The software download lets a user [...]
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Category: Online Music Tags: Digital media, DRM, DRM vs. DEM, online media
by Mike McGuire | September 26, 2008 | Comments Off
MySpace launched its online music service named, not surprisingly, MySpace Music on Thursday. The News Corporation-owned social network pulled back the curtain on a portal that will allow MySpace users to build an infinite number of playlists of major- and independent-label songs of ad-supported streams while also enabling direct purchases of songs from Amazon’s MP3 [...]
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Category: Online Music Tags: MySpace Music
