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By Ryan Van Etten on 04/18/2011
“In the corresponding rush to give today’s music fans what they want when they want it, the lines between stakeholders have become increasingly blurred. Even with business models evolving though, effective tools for music discovery, distribution, promotion, and curation remain an absolute necessity.” –Greg Nisbet Canadian Music Week 2011′s Mediazoic Panel about “how different parts [...]
Posted in Music, Music Flux | Tagged access vs. ownership, Alan Cross, artist-fan relationship, business, business model, Canadian music, change, CMW (Canadian Music Week), CMW 2011, content, context, curating music, data, digital valets, Greg Nisbet, Jake Gold, Jeremy Fisher, legal vs. illegal, Mediazoic, micropayments, monetization, music discovery, music industry, music value, MusicBiz, radio, Spotify, streaming, Terry McBride, tribes, video |
By Ryan Van Etten on 02/01/2010
Terry McBride—CEO of Nettwerk—talks here about imagination. He argues that with music, context trumps content because music creates emotional bookmarks in our mind. Simply, the song is an emotion. These emotional bookmarks are significant because they enable us to travel backwards in our memories to when we experienced the music. Consumers are in control of the music industry, and access rules.
Posted in Music, Music Flux, News, Popular | Tagged access vs. ownership, app stores, Apple, artist-fan relationship, arts, behavior, business, cloud, consumption, content, context, copyright law, crowdsourcing, digital, digital valets, downloads, emotion, emotional attachment, imagination, iPhone, ipod, live music, music industry, music ventures, MusicBiz, Nettwerk, P2P, positivity, psychology, pull, recession, revenue, smartphones, social music, Spotify, streaming, TED, TEDxVancouver, Terry McBride, venture capital, video |
By Ryan Van Etten on 12/01/2009
The interviews below featuring Terry McBride—CEO of Nettwerk—offer terrific insight to the digital era of music. Terry points out that the ways in which we consume music are changing rapidly—largely due to smartphones—and that the “emotional glue” between fans and musicians is the essence of music business.
Posted in Interviews, Music, Music Flux | Tagged access vs. ownership, app stores, Apps, artist labels, behavior, brands, business, cloud, cloud computing, consumers, consumption, content, context, copyright law, culture, digital, direct-to-fan, DIY, entertainment, fans, future, interview, iPhone, kids, marketplace, media, mobile, mobility, music industry, MusicBiz, musicians, Nettwerk, P2P, partnerships, positivity, service, smartphones, social music, streaming, TED, Terry McBride, trends, video, virtuality |