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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.
The Media Defender Story...
Posted in Internet, News on September 28th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Media Defender is a company that “has been contracted by every major record label and every major movie studio, video game publishers, software publishers and anime publishers”. Their mission is to fight Internet piracy using what they call a “technological approach”. For different reasons, they’ve been on the news since last July. The following is summary of who they are and what they’ve been up to until today. (more…)
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.
The Future of News(papers)...
Posted in Publishing, News, Pro Am Journalism, Hyperlocal Journalism on September 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The first stage is denial, the second is anger, the third is bargaining, the forth is depression, the fifth is acceptance…then you die. Steve Boriss of The Future of News reminds us of the 5 stages terminal patients go through as they accept their death, using this pattern to illustrate how newspaper’s are either dying of going through the same path as terminal ill patients do. (more…)
Free as the Price Tag and the Inadequacy of Today’s Metrics...
Posted in Advertising, News on September 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
We’ve been advocating for some time now the need of a paradigm shift in media, a fundamental change in approach and underlying assumptions. Our theory is that we’ll only find a successful business model for online media by thinking under such radical a change of assumptions. (more…)
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…)
Still Looking for a Business Model for Internet Video...
Posted in IPTV, Television, Internet, Mobile, News on September 13th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Despite the huge growth of video on the net, a clear business model has yet to be found. At MCH we advocate that to find a working business model a complete paradigm shift is required: The industry is not only in front of a simple platform shift, it’s facing a whole social transformation where scarcity doesn’t exist…among other important changes. (more…)
Newspaper’s Executioner and Savior...
Posted in IPTV, Publishing, News on September 13th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Just last week we explained how the recent AP-Google alliance was basically one more source of competition for newspapers, coming from a front they didn’t expect. Steve Boriss of The Future of News believes that traditional newspapers face a bleak future. Last week’s news might just be not the beginning but the first step beyond “the tipping point in the great fall of newspapers.” (more…)
Product Placement 2.0...
Posted in Mobile, Advertising, News on September 6th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Apple announced a partnership with Starbucks that will let their new WiFi enabled iPods and iPhones download music from any WiFi enhanced Starbucks store. An important part of the “Starbucks Experience” is the music selection they play at their stores. What was a cost to Starbucks might suddenly become a new revenue stream as iPod and iPhone users start to check on their devices what music is currently playing and buy it on the spot. (more…)
Google’s Wake Up Call to Newspapers...
Posted in Internet, News on September 6th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Google recently announced a partnership with the major news agencies to feature their original stories, while at the same time hiding “duplicates”, or in other words, the actual newspaper’s versions of that very same story. (more…)