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While browsing around YouTube, or while watching avid YT users browse YouTube, it has become obvious to many people that the basic guts of a music service already exist within the site. You can search for things, make playlists, subscribe to feeds, etc. In fact, many people (e.g., generation [fill in the blank] for folks [...]
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You can now *not share* music by choosing to “share” via Google+ the music video version of the music audio tracks you have in your Google Music locker. If that last sentence was a bit confusing, you just don’t understand the intricacies of copyright and the nuances of product functionality. That’s right, it is now [...]
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Google tends to refer to a wide variety of music-related products as “Google Music.” When the bits hit the hard drive, however, you buy tracks from the Android Market, upload tracks to Google Music (locker), watch music videos on YouTube, and… you get the picture. And so, even though Google Music is one of the [...]
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Following on a estimate of the music industry collections from UK Radio stations, I have done my best to estimate effective per spin per listener rates collected from US Radio stations. Importantly, the goal here was to estimate the effective value of each radio spin *per listener* so that rate can be compared to not [...]
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In the context of a great deal of debate over the value of streams on new music services, Spotify in particular, I have been working on some back-of-the-napkin (or serviette) estimates of the value of not only listens per listener to purchased tracks, but also spins per listener on major radio broadcasters. This week, I [...]
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