by Dubber | Oct 26, 2007 | Distribution, Promotion
Music may be like water — but it’s not water. Applying a tariff for all users of digital devices misunderstands consumers, music, the industry — and water. One of the debates I get dragged into quite regularly is the Music Like Water thing —...
by Dubber | Sep 8, 2007 | Consumption, Distribution, Strategy
In which I speak to three different (semi-fictional) characters to try and look at the problem of selling music online from several different angles. Steve Jobs hammers home the £1 per track dilemma ‘How do you make money from music?’ is an increasingly...
by Dubber | Jul 27, 2007 | Distribution
See that big orange button up the top there? Go click it. Then don’t come back. My observation that my stats were down yesterday actually caused some people to apologise that they were just looking at the RSS feed, using Google Reader or similar. Let’s be...
by Dubber | Jul 12, 2007 | Distribution, Promotion, Retail
When I talked to Gerd Leonhard from Sonific on this blog recently, I mentioned I’d be featuring another widget-based tool for online music distribution. Introducing Nimbit. I’ve been looking around at widgets that musicians and their fans can embed into...
by Dubber | Jul 11, 2007 | Distribution, Strategy
Want to go viral and have fan-made videos circulating the net? Talk to the code monkeys. It’s a surprisingly little-known fact that if you want to get a song on the radio, you should write a song that mentions or features radio stations and DJs. ‘We Built...
by Dubber | Jul 10, 2007 | Distribution, Promotion
You’ve probably read about We7 — the advertising-supported free download music site. Some are calling it the way forward, others see it as grasping at straws. I thought I’d ask. Recently, one of the bigger independent record labels, V2 Music signed a...
