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EA pins future on digital subscriptions, microtransactions, News from GamePro - 0 views

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  • Madden NFL 10, you can manage your teams on your iPhone with a companion App.
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  • EA might not be able to implement a subscription- or microtransaction-based service the way it plans to with the Madden franchise on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Alex Street

Why Playfish Sold Itself to EA - Digits - WSJ - 0 views

  • $300 million acquisition
  • apid maturing over the next 12 to 24 months
  • 15-20X EBIT multiple that EA
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    $300 million acquisition
Alex Street

FT.com / Media - Digital film is the future, the issue is timing - 0 views

  • Lovefilm, which claims to handle half of the UK’s DVD rentals, is hedging its bets on the digital future.
  • Lovefilm can afford to be agnostic about online and offline customers because both pay a regular subscription,
  • All those top-tier new release movie rights are universally held by Sk
Alex Street

FT.com / Companies / Retail - Walmart rises in digital battle - 0 views

  • Walmart has used its retail power and influence to get Vudu installed on a range of new devices that it would normally not have had access to, such as Sony’s PlayStati
  • es: the new Apple TV has no hard disc
  • in the US, digital rental transactions rose more than 50 per cent in 2010 to 38m, compared with 25m transactions in 2009.
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  • Consumers clearly now prefer access to ownership
Alex Street

UK online retail report: Mobile and Web driving changes to high street (Digital Knowled... - 0 views

  • Online retail is growing six times faster than high street
  • convenience
  • role of mobile phones
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  • familiar brands will disappear from town centres
  • online retail to exceed £37 billion by 2014, a rise of 61% from 2010.
  • high street will become less about shopping and more about the experience
  • destination rather than a just a shop
  • next step will be the use of mobile phones as part of the shopping experience. Soon, consumers won’t think about hitting the high street without their smartphone
  • ow we pay, locate products and find the best deals
  • customers interact in store. For instance, customers can ‘check in’
Alex Street

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution Launches Groundbreaking 'App Editions' of Feature Fil... - 0 views

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    App Editions provide a fully-loaded, connected viewing experience that gives consumers the first five minutes of a feature film and a portion of bonus content that can include games, trivia, soundtracks and soundboards.  The entire feature film can be unlocked via an in-app purchase, which enables downloading and unlimited streaming, as well as access to the entire array of bonus content available within the App.
Alex Street

DVD Intelligence - FEATURE: Physical media are hanging on for dear life - 0 views

  • Amazon.com’s deep discounting
  • deluxe art book containing more than 50 pages of art,
  • Amoeba arose out of that community of music lovers that wanted a better place for music than a corporate chain store
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  • one with the widest possible selection, better service, and more respect for people’s ideas and lives.”
  • Amoeba Musi
  • huge chain stores were mercilessly swallowing up independent store
  • depriving communities across the country of a personal relationship with their musi
  • HMV chief executive Simon Fox reported that CDs currently account for about a quarter of HMV’s business
  • If HMV merely maintains its share of the shrinking CD pie over the next three years, the company projects its annual revenues from CDs to fall to £120 million
  • the entire CD market in the UK would be worth just £300 million in three years’ time
  • £145m of turnover that has to be replaced by “digital entertainment devices”.
  • 1 million subscribers in Europe already pay the monthly premium subscription fee, while more than 10 million users go the free route.
  • Billboard reported that Spotify in just three weeks amassed at least 1 million total US users, and 70,000 paid subscribers in the first week
  • Spotify’s partnership with Facebook
  • ny labels or musicians who want to make money from CDs better wow buyers with unforgettable packaging
  • consumers have demonstrated that they’re willing to sacrifice sound quality for convenience and portability.
  • enough audiophiles – and videophiles for that matter – to sustain an entertainment ecosystem to cater to their needs?
  • Not having actual possession of a digital file is the premise of ‘cloud’-based computing, a
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  • transmedia storytelling’ is a technique of telling stories
  • mass media to develop media franchises
  • type of thing that CD-ROM started doing in the 1990s
Nick Verkroost

UK mobile content revenues worth over £1bn in five years (Digital Knowledge C... - 0 views

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