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1983 All Over Again
February 21, 2008 – 1:36 pm
Ah, 1983, I remember it well. I was selling 45 rpm, 7-inch singles for CBS Records (Michael Jackson’s Thriller had just been released) and the folks from headquarters brought in a new fangled thing called a Compact Disc, with a just-off-the-boat Japanese Sony CD player with a voltage converter. I think the CD they played [...]
A Little Place Of My Own
February 19, 2008 – 9:29 am
I was recently advised that hoteliers treat New York City much like a separate country within the United States. NYC has its own gravity and way of working. As major (and minor) hotel companies strive to find a little bit of differentiation within an increasingly monolithic industry, the New York Times profiles an architect who [...]
The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright
February 5, 2008 – 1:47 pm
Pro Sound News has published an article about the latest statistics for digital music downloading by “tweens”, those children between 9 and 14. While the slant in this article is decidedly negative (it is a trade publication after all), the stats show that most kids of this age group are using paid or legal downloading [...]
The best article on the future of music, ever.
December 20, 2007 – 8:04 pm
I met David Byrne twice. Once when the Talking Heads played the Boomer Theater in Norman, Oklahoma on tour for their second album. We sat up in the old projection room aka green room sipping Heineken’s with the rest of the band. And once a few years later in the Stop Making Sense days when [...]
Next Year’s Marketing
November 29, 2007 – 3:36 pm
The predictions for what will be hot next are a staple at this time of year. This is true for consumer items and for business trends. I liked this list of marketing ideas for 2008.
Few marketing programs completely fulfill one’s hopes. In the new year, marketers should avoid over-hyped opportunities to focus on measuring success [...]
Worthless music is killing the business
November 19, 2007 – 9:15 am
An undercurrent to the whole music industry crash and burn has been this implied, and sometimes quite overt, notion that the kids today “just don’t value music” and this somehow is the reason why usage of peer-to-peer networks has increased. It seems that the less and less music is valued, the more and more music [...]
King of the Jungle
November 16, 2007 – 10:42 am
Some new elephants are emerging from the music business model jungle. Concert promoter Live Nation, fresh off a Madonna acquisition (see earlier blog), has added more merchandising to its growing empire.
Concert giant Live Nation has now acquired merchandising group Signatures Network for $79 million, according to deal points disclosed Thursday. Signatures, a specialist in [...]
It’s Not the Media, It’s the Mode-shun
November 6, 2007 – 2:21 pm
Slowly, ever so glacially slow, the traditional media outlets and big advertisting agencies are beginning to understand the predicament they find themselves. This Ad Age article exposes some behaviors of media consumers and advises how to fit into those consumers’ landscape.
It’s Not the Media That Matter, but the Modes
Tune In: Understand the Mind-Sets That Drive [...]