Flashlight shining into the future (twice)
Posted on | December 27, 2011 | No Comments
Oh man! Things are getting rougher and tougher when you’re only aiming for hardware releases. Here’s the first one that I pulled from the Digital Music News site: [ "Study: Spotify Is Detrimental to Music Purchasing..." ] which contradicts the halleluia messages that always tell us that people download AND buy music (implying that downloads do not have a negative result on music sales). Read more
Who runs the music business now?
Posted on | December 4, 2011 | 3 Comments
A few weeks ago Google Music was launched. This development quite clearly showed what the game is really about. It fired up my thoughts and after a while I decided it was time to take a look at the whole canvas again. this is an essay where I go back in time in order to explain why things are as they are and to demonstrate the severity of the fracture that we are looking at. Read more
Grow your own marketing.
Posted on | November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
I watched the movie ‘press pauseplay’ today after reading Bas Grasmayer’s thesis. The two connected quite nicely with the words that I have been writing here and yet yielded an interesting new insight. Research shows that the value of a song as a track is rapidly diminishing whereas the value of a performance is rising.
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Music is a ballpoint
Posted on | November 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
Remember ballpoints? They’re worth next to nothing. I try to explain the comparison and play my adage: change the business plan. Else you (artist) are fucked and better start selling flower bulbs door to door. Read more
The future of music : according to the industry
Posted on | October 28, 2011 | No Comments
Now, pay attention all you artists. The presentation below shows you what music industry management is going for in the next couple years. This presentation by consultancy firm JWT has its finger quite accurately on the pulse of time. Not on all items (eg. the Facebook effect that they are talking about hasn’t really been showing yet) but the majority points in a direction that I am looking into as well. Read more
EARLabs stepping up
Posted on | October 27, 2011 | No Comments
People regularly visiting my other website [ EARLabs.org] and following my tweets have noticed about the progress there. In this post I will go through it. Read more
Oh no, not again a new platform?
Posted on | October 26, 2011 | No Comments
“The New Record” is yet again a platform for independent labels to present themselves on the web and become social with the audience/fans. There we go again, i thought when reading about it. Will this then be the new platform for independents (which is different from unsigned but that may be a matter of semantics) where an audience finds itself welcomed and at home? But at the first glance of the front page my heart sank. No matter how beta it is at the moment. Read more
Spotify : the stakes are high (financially)
Posted on | October 12, 2011 | No Comments
DigitalMusicnews.com, the pointer who sniffs up every music industry’s whiff, published an article that gives us some insight in the amount of money that is spinning around the Spotify machinery. It’s pretty amazing, especially when look at the trend. Read more
Spotibook 3 : everything’s hunky dory ?
Posted on | September 30, 2011 | No Comments
After the [ comments ] about the connection between Facebook and Spotify things are changing rapidly. Spotify almost immediately released a new version of Spotify that allows listeners to switch off the automated posting of the songs you’re playing on Facebook. Reading the posts on various websites which are in close contact to Spotify headquarters people are a bit overwhelmed. Read more
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