Archive for the 'Digital Music' Category
Paid Content quotes Economist publisher Paul Rossi, who suggested at the Future Of Business Media conference last month:
Just 12 percent of European web users paid for online content last year, but that’s due to rise to 19 percent by 2013, a new Jupiterresearch report says: “While free content will continue to dominate, as overall online […]
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Imeem joins the bandwagon:
Online music-focused social network Imeem is on the block, according to our sources, and has hired investment banker Montgomery and Co. to lead the sale. Coincidentally, we have also learned that the company is announcing some layoffs internally today—as much as 25 percent of its around 80-strong workforce.
Imeem has raised above $50 […]
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MySpace is certainly this generation’s MTV. So it was pretty fitting that Sumner Redstone would seek to acquire MySpace, of course, as history would have it, Mr. Redstone’s foe Rupert Murdoch stepped in, outbid Viacom, and lo and behold, MySpace fell in News Corp.’s domain.
MySpace has gone on to become the largest music community, no […]
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Crazy idea of the day.
First, the inspiration, from SAI:
What explains pre-rolls popularity? In part, it’s because advertisers geniunely think they’re the most effective format available. And in part, it’s because pre-rolls look and feel just like the TV ads publishers and advertisers are already comfortable with. Who’s going to come up with a better solution? […]
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Everyone was clamoring today about how Apple surpassed Google in market cap today.
In all fairness, indeed, when measured by market capitalization (shares outstanding x share price), that is true.
But while Google has $12.7B in cash on its balance sheet, Apple has a whopping $20.7B. In fact, in 2009, it’s expected that Apple will have $30B […]
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Apple Inc. stock is up 1,474% since 2003, the company has $20.8 billion in cash and short-term investments. It’s adding about $1 billion in cash each quarter, reaching $30 billion in 2009 and likely to pass Microsoft (which has $23.7 billion in cash). Apple could have $40 billion in the bank by 2010, […]
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A number of otherwise smart people suggest that Napster should be worth “at least as much as Last.fm”, whom CBS bought for $280M.
Napster? They’re worth $70M, and if you look at their net value, it’s trading at, hum, $0.
Last.fm was private when CBS bought it; Napster is publicly traded. What does that […]
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Bloggers will eat this up, but I for one doubt it and will believe it when I see it.
News Corporation reportedly courts US rapper 50 Cent with $300M offer to join the MySpace Label.
Hmm, something tells me, this is not true.
For one, even when the music business was a good one (was it ever?), Murdoch […]
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Paid Content refers to a NYT article on CBS which calls for the company that Bill Paley built to make digital acquisitions, which begs the question: should they go for a big purchase or make small moves?
Of course, answering that question alone without addressing the backdrop to that question yields an incomplete picture.
CBS has hit […]
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Special Ops Media was one of the many agencies I worked with at my old gig. I was in charge of ad sales but also worked with companies on promotions etc. The agency was founded in 2002 (I had started my gig in September 2000) by Jason Klein and Christian Anthony.
It was interesting […]
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