Facebook announced it’s highly anticipated integration of a variety of media services at its F8 conference last month, putting to rest months of speculation as…
Reminiscent of the evolution and survival of life, the music business transforms and adapts to its environment. Dealing with ever thinning returns, the music industry…
On June 6th of this year, at its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced at last plans for its iCloud service. Music, digital books, applications, photos…
Monetization of the music digital space has been slow and is yet to provide consolation for the dearth of revenue in the industry. But the…
Creativity and Music on the Internet The Internet’s growth has had a dramatic impact on the music industry. As it became more accessible, services…
Once upon a time, music companies could afford to spend a great deal of money on artist production and development through the revenue generated by…
With all the recent activity in the digital music world, it is no surprise that investors have been attracted to the concept of cloud-based services.…
Services like Rhapsody charge a monthly subscription fee to grant users, with browsers or mobile apps, access to an extensive music catalogue. The content is…
On February 24, 2011, the 11th Annual Digital Music Forum East was held in New York City. The conference hosted a series of panels that…
The iPod, iPhone, and iPad seem to have taken over the music market. Apple, in effect, rules like an empire over it all. Yet there…
More than ten years have passed since the debut of Napster shook the record industry. The file-sharing software gave music listeners access to an immense …
Imagine Joe Smith as the head of a small chain of radio stations somewhere in the US’s mid-west region…
Since the early evolution of the music industry, there has been a struggle to find a way to accurately measure success among artists….
The rebirth of venture capital, originally fueled by the equity related collapses of the early 2000s, is in the air. Publications like Fortune and the Wall Street Journal seem fixated on the…