If you've yet to have your fill of pretty charts about Apple's iTunes, check out Asymco's latest piece of analysis on how the company's content business is growing. It brings together the most recent...
April 26th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
We've written a lot about apps and music in the last five years, not just about apps for artists and music discovery, but apps as an increasingly important delivery channel for digital music, whether Pandora,...
April 17th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
NPD Group has shared some stats from its latest Annual Music Study report in the US, drawing some useful conclusions about Apple's share of the music downloads market, as well as the (positive) impact...
April 3rd, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Pandora remains the most popular streaming music service by far in the US, according to the latest research from NPD Group. It estimates that Pandora's free version was used by 39% of 13-35 year-olds...
March 27th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
US music industry body the RIAA has published some data on recorded music revenues in 2012, with the headline figure being a 0.9% drop in sales to $7.1bn. Not the kind of decline seen over the last...
March 25th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Apple has long maintained that its iTunes Store is a breakeven business, with the margins made on selling music (and more recently films, TV shows, e-books and apps) cancelled out by the costs of running...
March 19th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
It's sadly inevitable that any research into music piracy or streaming music – no matter how sober and diligent – will be seized upon and selectively quoted by all sides in the debates to support their...
March 18th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
"Mobile-first" has been a phrase worth dropping in startup and investor circles for some time now – a blog post titled Mobile First Web Second by Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson in September 2010...
March 11th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
UK communications regulator Ofcom has published its second report tracking online copyright infringement (PDF), covering the third quarter (Aug-Oct) 2012. The report by Kantar Media is a large-scale...
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