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Ryan Fuller

WMG Finds Music Growth Overseas As U.S. CD Sales Skip | paidContent - 0 views

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2010 music sales foreign market domestic

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  • Ryan Fuller on 09 Feb 10
     
    Forget the last 10 years of post-Napster industry annihilation - Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) is now seeing growing income from both music sales and music publishing - but only if you factor in overseas sales; the U.S. business is still in rewind...
kkholland

Digital Marketing: Why Google Wasn't Winning in China Anyway - Advertising Age - Digital - 0 views

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google china media industry economics

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  • But it could be a face-saving way to exit a market where Google has made surprisingly little progress. Most research companies agree Google controls at most one-quarter of China's search market. That's hard to swallow, given Google's dominant position in the U.S. and many other major markets.
  • Google has never been a big believer in traditional marketing anywhere, including China, while Baidu is an active advertiser in TV, out-of-home and digital media.
  • "Their chief problem was the idea they could come into the market without doing marketing and expect to replicate the miraculous success they had enjoyed in the U.S. They did no marketing," said Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based consultant for Youku.com and the former of head of digital strategy at Ogilvy & Mather in China.
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  • "Google has vision but its execution in China wasn't strong. They don't get the nitty-gritty nuances and are not close enough to the market," said Quinn Taw, a Beijing-based venture partner at Mustang Ventures who has held senior positions at Mindshare and Zenith Media in China.
  • Until recently, for instance, Google.cn had the same clean, sleek look of Google.com, even though Chinese web surfers, particularly in the early days, preferred clicking on popular search topics rather than typing in search characters. Baidu's site reflected that preference from the start.
  • "With its massively popular Tieba forums, a question-and-answer service and a wiki, Baidu leveraged Chinese netizens' natural propensity to share and create content and seamlessly integrated it in to the overall search experience way before Google's attempts," said Sam Flemming, founder and chairman of CIC, an internet research and consulting firm in Shanghai.
  • tionalism and corruption. When Baidu issued its IPO in late 2005, about one-third of Baidu's users were music fans using the site's online music file-sharing service, which operated much like Napster. Baidu didn't earn revenue from the music downloads, but music attracted tens of millions of Chinese to its site and helped make it the No. 1 search engine player. As an American company bound by U.S. laws protecting intellectual property, this growth tactic was not open to Google. Music companies, of course, hate Baidu's music-sharing site. The major labels such as EMI, Warner Music Group and Vivendi's Universal Music have tried suing local sites that allowed illegal downloading, including Baidu, with minimal success in court and little support from Chinese consumers.
  • Unlike Baidu, Google made another mistake in refusing to offer rebates for volume media buys, a common, if not always legal, practice in China's media industry. (
  • Media buyers "couldn't give Google money if they wanted to," Mr. Taw said. "Their sales guys were very arrogant, superior and hard to get hold of. They went out of their way to be jerks."
  • kkholland on 17 Jan 10
     
    Explores the economic angle of google's potential withdraw from China, and offers a competing argument that the firm's threats to leave may in fact be a face saving measure driven by the bottom line.
Ethan Hartsell

Online music piracy 'destroys local music' - 1 views

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Internet Music Industry

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    Local musicians in countries like Spain, which does not regulate the downloading of music and movies, are really hurting. Such countries run the risk of becoming "cultural deserts," because the only reason people make music is the money.
anonymous

Music Companies Want Pirate Bay Founders to Pay Fine - PC World - 0 views

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copyright music Sweden filesharing

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    The music industry in Sweden has filed for the Stockholm District Court to enforce a ruling from last October that would require the founders of The Pirate Bay (a file sharing site) to pay a fine of 500,000 kronor (US$ 71,000) if the site was not shut down.
anonymous

China's Baidu wins court case against music groups - 0 views

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China music copyright

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  • anonymous on 26 Jan 10
     
    Search engine in China cleared of piracy in dispute with music industry.
Ryan Fuller

Music Industry Counts the Cost of Piracy - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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2010 music industry piracy

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  • Ryan Fuller on 23 Jan 10
     
    PARIS - Worldwide sales of recorded music fell by about 10 percent last year, a trade group said Thursday, as revenue growth from digital services was insufficient to compensate for a continuing fall in sales of compact discs.
Ryan Fuller

Dispute Heats Up Over New Fees for Playing Songs on Radio - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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2010 music industry royalty payments artists record companies

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  • Ryan Fuller on 08 Mar 10
     
    For more than 70 years, royalty payments for air time have flowed to the songwriters and music publishers but not to the musicians or record companies. Now there is a renewed drive to revisit that arrangement, and in recent weeks the volume of the discussion has increased several decibels.
Ethan Hartsell

Updated: UMG To Launch U.S. Pricing Test - 0 views

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Music UMG 2010

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    The Universal Music Group could rewrite U.S. music pricing when it tests a new frontline pricing structure, which is designed to get single CDs in stores at $10, or below. Beginning in the second quarter and continuing through most of the year, the company's Velocity program will test lower CD prices. Single CDs will have the suggested list prices of $10, $9, $8, $7 and $6.
scwalton

FT.com / UK - Publishers fear the bite of Apple's revenue model - 0 views

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ft.com Apple iPad Newspapers Publishing Media Ownership Monetization

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    "Mr Jobs articulated his belief that a "functioning media" is vital to a "functioning democracy" and how his "gorgeous" device would help safeguard that role...The question haunting publishers is whether they will suffer the same fate as the music industry, which was hit by Apple's 2003 deal to unbundle the album format by offering downloads of individual songs via iTunes."
Alex Markov

Analysts blame 2009 slump on music genre, lack of innovation - 0 views

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2009 analysis slump music innovation video games

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  • Alex Markov on 19 Jan 10
     
    Industry watchers pull varying lessons from the year's retail wreckage, predict return to growth in 2010.
Theresa de los Santos

Authors Guild: We don't want to be the RIAA - 0 views

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Authors Guild Google Copyright Books Justice Department Settlement Digital

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  • Theresa de los Santos on 06 Feb 10
     
    The Authors Guild agreed to a controversial settlement with Google because it feared repeating the mistakes that the music industry has made in dealing with digital works.
scwalton

FMQB: Radio Industry News, Music Industry Updates, Arbitron Ratings, Music News and more! - 1 views

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fmqb radio FCC Diversity Com Media Ownership

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  • scwalton on 14 Mar 10
     
    "A coalition of public interest organizations - including the Center for Media Justice, Center for Rural Strategies, Free Press, Media Access Project, Media Alliance and many more - have sent a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski asking that the Commission make increased diversity in the media and broadband communications landscape a top priority."
ethan tussey

Redbox: Is the movie biz doomed to relive the Napster nightmare? | The Big Picture | Lo... - 0 views

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2009 DVD Film Industry Redbox

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  • Warners has even gone further, saying it would impose the same restrictions on Netflix and other DVD by-mail subscription providers unless they agreed to a "day-and-date revenue sharing option."
  • here's no way of getting around the fact that the studios who are trying to put the muscle on Redbox are making the same mistakes the music business made nearly a decade ago when it attempted -- and failed, quite spectacularly -- to squash unauthorized downloading of music by destroying the dreaded Napster Web file-sharing service.
  • At some point we'll have a longer, perhaps more intriguing discussion about why so many people have gone from buyers to renters.
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