Hindsight is 20-20. The record labels have never had great foresight, otherwise they may now been offering concerts, ticketing, merchandise, …
An Internet copyright levy?
In his Midem blog post A Very Taxing Situation, Ted Cohen suggests we should consider a flat rate levy/tax/tarriff imposed …
Digital Hollywood Panel
Last week, I was a panelist at Digital Hollywood. As usual I was invited to speak to issues around the …
The Value of Music: Is downloading really stealing?
Today, I was talking to a collegue about how his 19 year old daughter gets her music. He told me …
Searching for Search Growth — The Truth is Still Out There
In the last week, Nielson//NetRatings and comScore Media Metrix, two competing Internet measurement companies, both released their search engine results …
Record online ad revenues in Q4 2005
According to a press release today by The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), they and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) performed a joint study …
At last – more offline advertising spending moving to online
In a recent report by Piper Jaffray analyst Safa Rashtchy, reported in Clickz , the tipping point for offline ad …
Guidelines for In-Stream Video Ads Published by IAB
Clickz has a story on the IAB’s recent guidelines for broadband video commercials to be broadcast on internet sites. I …
Questioning the Slashdot Effect — Getting to the Why not the What
Business Week Online’s article Less Impact from the Slashdot Effect leaps to conclusions about why the Slashdot Effect has weakened …