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Key Articles of the Week...
Posted in IPTV, Music, News on December 7th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Internet Video Producers: Have a Plan
TVWeek downplays the ability for independent producers to come online and make money with their independent online ventures. That’s understandable. I won’t ascribe to them an unspoken bias against New Media, since only the absolutely most informed Web 2.0 denizen is probably aware of exactly all the monetization opportunities out there. None the less, it is a bit annoying to continue to see the analogy of independent online video producers to “the old Hollywood dream of being discovered.”
Warner Music Group: Going the Way of the Dodo
While piracy groups have been recently taking repeated kicks to the keister, it also seems that the major record labels are also finally learning first hand that they may have missed the boat on this whole “series of tubes” thing.
Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr. led the earnings call this morning showcasing the “music-based content company’s” extremely meager profits (profits, by the way, that wouldn’t exist if they hadn’t won a settlement from the old Napster lawsuit). Warner was only able to bring in a profit by a scant $5 million on a total revenue of $869 million. The cause of the gap is obvious: Warner hasn’t adapted well to online music sales.
Key Articles of the Week...
Posted in IPTV, Television, Music, News on November 17th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Rebuilding Hollywood in Silicon Valley’s Image (via Digg)
“The writers’ strike, and the studios’ response to the strike, may radically accelerate a structural shift in the media industry — a shift of power from studios and conglomerates towards creators and talent.”
“I believe the entertainment industry is in the early stages of being rebuilt in the image of Silicon Valley.” (more…)
Trends in Media: Freemium...
Posted in Television, Publishing, Music, Mobile, News, Free on November 2nd, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.Freemium is business model that works by offering basic services for free, which potentially attracts a large customer base, and then charging a premium for advanced or special features. Let’s see how this Web 2.0 trend is working (or could potentially work) for media, from mobile platforms to publishing. (more…)
The Radiohead Aftermath...
Posted in Music, News on October 18th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.Last week Radiohead started distributing their latest album on DRM free MP3’s, but most importantly, they let users name their price. Almost 2 million downloads later, this week, the theme of the most interesting media & technology articles and blogposts still was Radiohead. Here’s the highlights and the best of them. (more…)
Great News From The Music Industry...
Posted in Television, Music, News on October 13th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.Since the Internet became mainstream about 10 years ago the music industry has been unwillingly ahead of all other media. The situation today is clearly polarized: On one side we have the record labels, fighting to maintain the status quo they held 10 years ago. On the other side we have music consumers, mostly pirates (according to the labels & the RIAA’s around the world). They are listening to more music than ever before, but not in the way copyright law originally intended. This week’s major stories show this polarization but also reflect a trend pointing to the side that will probably win this battle and decide how media should be understood and consumed. (more…)
Links of the Week...
Posted in IPTV, Music, News on October 4th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free
The economics of recorded music are fairly simple. Marginal production costs are zero: Like software, it doesn’t cost anything to produce another digital copy that is just as good as the original as soon as the first copy exists, and anyone can create those copies. Unless effective legal (copyright), technical (DRM) or other artificial impediments to production can be created, simple economic theory dictates that the price of music, like its marginal cost, must also fall to zero.
Links of the Week...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Publishing, Music, Internet, News on September 28th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.Reflections of a Newsosaur: Yahoo! for Yahoo?
Newspaper publishers who partnered with Yahoo are seeing such significant online sales increases that they could start producing positive over-all revenue gains as early as 2009, says one Wall Street analyst.
Links of the Week...
Posted in Music, Internet, Mobile, Advertising, News on September 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.Record Labels Use Piracy Data to Please Fans (Via Digg)
It turns out that P2P is not only an enemy for the major record labels, it’s also an excellent marketing research tool. In fact, MediaDefender is using piracy to help labels increase profitability. (more…)
Links of the Week...
Posted in Television, Citizen Journalism, Music, Mobile, News on August 24th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.The Onward March of Citizen Journalism
Every major news event from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami has been recorded by Citizen Journalists and broadcasted by traditional media. The Beijing Olympics of 2008 could be the event that pushes the trend forward. (more…)
Links from Last Week...
Posted in IPTV, Citizen Journalism, Music, News on May 10th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.YouTube Launches Revenue Sharing Partners Program, but no Pre-Rolls (TechCrunch)
YouTube has launched a revenue sharing Partners Program for its top content creators. (more…)