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Our lead looks at the key learnings from this year’s Midem and how the event reflected the wider
themes in the music business which we have broken down as follows:
A country profile of Canada taken from the Music Ally, bi-weekly report.
Music industry analyst Mark Mulligan left Forrester Research earlier this year, so what’s he up to now? Well, one thing is working on a report, which he’s given more information about on his blog. “I am currently writing a report that looks at how music fans can be pulled into the creative process and how this dynamic can then be used to transform music release cycles, formats and products,” he explains.
Yesterday’s Report ran a feature entitled “Pandora’s box” which looked at criticisms from Universal Music that interactive radio service Pandora is “gaming the DMCA”. Simon Wheeler from Beggars, quoted in the article, has requested that we correct any implication that he might hold a negative position on Pandora. We would like to apologise for any lack of clarity and run Simon’s full quote on the matter below
UK law firm Wiggin has released its annual digital entertainment survey, which questioned 1,750 ‘digitally active’ consumers. It found that 62% agreed that it’s right to suspend…
Yesterday, we reported on MarkMonitor’s report claiming 43 ‘piracy sites’ attract 53 billion visits a year, with RapidShare top of the list.
Danish digital music service TDC Play has been hailed as groundbreaking since its launch in 2008, being the first to offer free and unlimited music downloads from all four major […]
Last year, MusicTank ran a series of events in the UK tagged ”Let’s Sell Recorded Music!”
