by Mike McGuire | March 14, 2013 | 2 Comments
“We never got it off on that revolution stuff, and It was such a drag Too many snags“ (by David Bowie, made a hit by Mott the Hoople) My wanderings bring me to Austin, TX, this week where I’m attending the SXSW conference. A benefit of being on a panel is you can go to [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: digital marketing, Mobile Marketing, Online Music
by Mike McGuire | November 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
After a weeks, or so it seemed, of rumors, speculation and innuendo, Google unleashed its online music store. OK, it doesn’t have Warner Music Group’s catalog but it does have Universal, EMI and Sony. Will Warner eventually come join the Google party? Probably, but they probably won’t need to hurry or anything. Google’s upended the [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Google, iTunes, Online Music, Spotify
by Mike McGuire | September 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
(And other challenges in a socially connected world . . . ) I moderated a panel called “The Future of Charts” at the SFMusicTech conference earlier this week and came away with a stronger sense of how complex the business of music (and media) will become under the influence of social networks and social media. [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Online Music, sales charts, SFMusicTech
by Mike McGuire | August 23, 2011 | Comments Off
Why hasn’t the subscription model for online music? Sure, its previous incarnation in the first half of the decade was fraught with DRM snafus and, well, none of the services played on the iPod. But the iPhone and the app economy changed all that with the content-as-app approach e.g. online subscription services with a smartphone [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: Online Music, online music subscriptions, Rdio
by Mike McGuire | August 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
Nice rundown on News.com on YouTube (Google) and its efforts to smooth (or smoother) their somewhat fractious relations with content rightsholders. In this case, the online video giant’s dualistic role as a music freak’s treasure chest and bane of segments of the music industry settled a suit which included the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). Like a number of organziations representing stakeholders [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Online Music, youtube
by Mike McGuire | May 10, 2011 | Comments Off
Have you heard that Music Beta by Google is now available – if Google grants you permission to use their “beta”? Check it out here. Google wants to make listening to music “…a much better experience,” according to “Chris” who is the talking head who describes the Music Beta from Google in the video that [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: "Is it Beta?", online media, Online Music
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
