TAG hosted a Digital Music Salon at the Gibson Showroom in Beverly Hills. Participants represented Rhino Records, MySpace, Playlist.com, Big Champagne, Music.com, Music Mastermind, Emblem Music, Aderra, LA Times, New Music Tipsheet and others.
Sponsored by Hello Music and MIDEM.
In April of 2006, I spoke in Hong Kong at the Nokia N Series launch. The focus of my talk, that music as a product was dead; the future of music was service-based. At the time, senior executives at EMI were outraged by my perspective. I still believe it’s the future, we have to embrace it.
So the inevitable “offers are scams” story finally blew on to the scene last week at the Virtual Goods Summit when TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington attacked OfferPal’s Anu Shukla for having misleading offers (e.g. sign up for Netflix, get 10,000 coinz) as a core part of her business.