TAG Managing Partner Ted Cohen is quoted by USA Today in their latest article “Twitter #Music service waiting to trend” by Jefferson Graham.
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The following is an article covering the Tech Summit at New Music Seminar 2012 that TAG Strategic co-produced with DigitalMusic.org. Why Investors Don’t Want to Back Your Music Startup New York Observer By Margaret Nickens June 19, 2012 The problem, as one philosophically-minded audience member pointed out, is that there are too many problems in […]
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The following appears courtesy of The Music Void. See all of Ted Cohen’s Digital Diatribe columns for The Music Void at TheMusicVoid.com. Lately, there’s been renewed chatter about the price of a digital download and just where, exactly, is the “sweet spot” for the industry and consumers. Last week, producer/professor/entrepreneur/thinker Sandy Pearlman again broached his […]
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RED, Sony Music’s third-party distribution arm, has just become the first major-label division to price music at 15 cents on the AmieStreet online music store. As with other music sold there, RED’s tracks (from My Morning Jacket, Third Eye Blind and many others) will increase in price as demand increases to a maximum of 98 cents.
READ MORE »Posted by Ted • Wednesday, August 19, 2009 .
In May, when the Warner Group (also known as WEA, short for Warner Elektra Atlantic) laid off John Koury, it released the last foot soldier from a long line of sales and marketing pros that helped influence what music took root in the city — and, sometimes, across the country. Koury was the last major-label sales representative in the city.
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The twitter Music panel moderated by ICED boss Leslie Hall (@dollyhall) with guests rapper Jim Jones (@JimJonescapo), Ted Cohen (@tagstrategic), and Xavier Jernigan (@xjernigan) discussed how the social network does and does not work in the music industry.
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