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Monkeying Around With Mobile Music (Updated)
Today the triumvirate of Universal Music, UK broadcaster Channel 4 and UK mobile operator Orange announced a Pay As You Go (PAYG) mobile music service called Monkey. The service is aimed squarely at...
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Is Apple Playing a Subtle But Smart Platform Strategy?
I have to admit to being a bit under whelmed by Apple’s announcements today. I’d been hoping for something a bit grander from a music perspective. I’ve spoken about the iTunes Album launch and...
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Five Music Predictions for 2010 (and Five Reasons Why 2009 was a Flop)
[Please note that this post first appeared on the Forrester Consumer Product Strategy blog. Over the coming month or so I will be migrating all of my activity there. I will soon be posting new...
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Nokia Mix Radio (What Happened After Comes With Music)
In the excitement of Nokia’s announcement of its first Windows phones today, one would be forgiven for missing the announcement of Nokia’s first major move in the music space since Comes With Music:...
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The Digital Music Year That Was: 2011 in Review and 2012 Predictions
Following the disappointment of 2010, 2011 was always going to need to pack more punch. In some ways it did, and other ways it continued to underwhelm. On balance though the stage is set for an...
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Why Apple’s Dividend Payment Is Actually a Product Strategy Story
I’ve just published a new post over on Media Industry Blog Apple’s decision to use approximately half of its vast $97 billion cash surplus in a mix of dividends and stock repurchase says as much about...
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The Tale of Nokia, Mobile First and Sonic Augmented Reality
At Midem this last weekend Nokia announced the launch of Nokia Music Plus, a premium iteration of its free Nokia Mix Radio offering. For €3.99 per month subscribers get an enhanced personalized radio...
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The Challenges of Becoming a Subscription Business
Subscriptions are still only a small share of the music market but their time is coming. That time is long over due (I and my former Jupiter colleagues David Card and Aram Sinnreich first started...
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Listen Services Raise Their Game While Access Services Raise More Capital
Regular readers will recall my classification of the digital music market into Access services and Listen services, located at opposite ends of the Complexity Axis. Late last week two of those Listen...
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MusicQubed Puts the Rise of Listen Services Into Numbers
Back in October I wrote about the emergence of a new wave of music services: ‘Listen Services’. Namely music services that sit at the opposite end of the sophistication spectrum to ‘Access Services’...
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