music

Teenagers want substance over style from their phones

November 21, 2007

A new U.S. online survey titled Teen Topix has released the results of their study on young consumers aged 13-17 years and their mobile phone preferences and behaviour. When question on the key benefits of their mobile phones it was not surprising that ‘convenience’ comes out top with 77% claiming that the ‘convenience of being [...]

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Recorded music market down $5 billion in next 4 years

November 20, 2007

Radiohead’s recent pay-as-you’d-like strategy represents a much needed leap of faith in today’s shrinking recorded music marketplace. Young consumers are spending 10% of their disposable income on mobile services, that’s $30 less a month to spend on music, fashion etc. Something’s going to give. So perhaps beyond piracy, Youth’s $130 billion annual spend on mobile [...]

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Biting the hand that feeds…

November 12, 2007

You would have thought so… shackled by the rampant capitalist demands of the record labels, forced to work in sweatshop recording studios and starved until they produce their inaugural album. It’s easy to pity the poor artist, particular as it is with them rather than the content owner that the consumer has affiliation. No wonder [...]

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Is Radiohead blazing a trail for monetizing youth and music?

November 12, 2007

It still didn’t get me to download there album, because in short I don’t like them and I find their music depressing. But their name is plastered across every broadsheet and business masthead globally, and of course they are $10 million better off. So, does my opinion matter? What I have to admire RH for [...]

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New Nokia Handsets Combining Music and Gaming

August 31, 2007

At Nokia’s Go Play event in London, two new handsets have been introduced – the N81 and the N81 8GB. The devices have been designed to complement both the music store on Nokia’s new Ovi online portal and the N-Gage gaming platform – all wrapped up in a sleek slider design and peppered with rich [...]

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