February 25, 2011 by Joab Jackson Free streaming services are replacing piracy as the chief culprit of music industry revenue loss in the minds of fiscally frustrated executives, if a number of panel discussions at a New York digital music conference are any indication. People are listening to more music than ever before, but they […]
READ MORE »Posted by Ted • Friday, February 25, 2011 .
Weezer had a big hit on YouTube a couple of years ago with “Pork and Beans,” a video that featured some of YouTube’s biggest stars. For its encore the band is inverting the strategy: The YouTube stars make their own videos, and the band appears in their clips.
READ MORE »Posted by Ted • Tuesday, September 14, 2010 .
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LMT0_7PRHA[/youtube] The head of much-acclaimed music streaming service Spotify and YouTube’s director of EMEA video partnerships discuss with TAG Strategic’s Ted Cohen how new audio and video streaming services can be game-changers.
READ MORE »Posted by Ted • Friday, January 22, 2010 .
MidemNet 2010 is sixty days out & I can’t wait to be back in Cannes!
READ MORE »Posted by Ted • Wednesday, November 25, 2009 .
By Paul Bond A 55-second video of a baby biting his brother is about to make the parents a bunch of money. That’s because YouTube announced a change of policy Tuesday that will significantly increase the number of ads that accompany its most popular user-generated content. The new policy also could steal a bit more […]
READ MORE »Posted by Ted • Wednesday, August 26, 2009 .
Good news for cash-strapped online music services. Royalty collector PRS For Music has bowed to websites’ pleas for smaller charges, more than halving its on-demand streaming music rate from £0.0022 to £0.00085 per track, effective July 1 and lasting for three years.
READ MORE »Posted by Ted • Tuesday, May 26, 2009 .
