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Social Networking Site Visitors
The Wall Street Journal recently released an article about social networking sites and their advertising potential. Here are some interesting facts from that article: Unique Visitors (June 2008)- Facebook – 132.1 million- MySpace – 117.6 million- hi5 – 56.4 million- Friendster – 37.1 million- Orkut – 34 million- Bebo – 24 million(source comscore) USA Ad [...]
WaWaWa
A recent Chinese start-up called WaWaWa (www.wa3.cn) will test a subscription service that evens out to about $0.03 per song. At this point it is unknown whether or not Chinese consumers will pay even $0.03 per song. The content is mostly from independent artists, but this is pretty telling. China just passed the USA in [...]
Rawrip Startup
Another day, another music website start-up. This one, called Rawrip, allows independent artists the ability to take home 100% of their download royalties. Artists can create widgets to post on Facebook and Myspace to sell their songs. On Rawrip’s side of things, they foster music discovery. Upon entering the Rawrip website, you are given the [...]
Facebook vs. Myspace
Last month, I blogged about the user numbers between Myspace & Facebook. I don’t think looking at the numbers is all that necessary since it is quite obvious that Facebook is quickly taking the cake from Myspace, but nonetheless, it is interesting. Here are the numbers for Facebook and Myspace for the month of June [...]
Impulse Buying
There is a funny shift happening right now. Advertisements are looking more like MTV, and MTV is looking more like, well a jukebox. MTV just announced a new site – soundtrack.mtv.com where they will list all songs that are playing on any given MTV station. The old joke is that MTV no longer plays music, [...]
Seeqpod’s Defense
I often wonder about the legality of some of the new music social networking sites. One new site to the scene, Seeqpod, allows you to compile a playlist of streaming music. Say you type in ‘Free Fallin John Mayer version,’ you will have some audio & video options found on the internet. You can then [...]
Car WiFi
Chrysler just announced that they will begin installing WiFi capabilities in new cars. This has enormous implications for the music industry. The shift has already started occurring, but in the past, the radio was really the main place to hear and learn about new music. That has obviously changed with social networking sites, but the [...]
MySpace
I went to a BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) sponsored event in Atlanta a few nights ago. It was organized by a good friend of mine who works at BMI. There were 5 bands that played at this particular showcase. Before each act would start playing, my BMI friend would come up to me and say [...]
Worldwide Social Networking Sites
New global user data is now available from comScore media metrix for Facebook and MySpace. Worldwide, Facebook is taking the lead with 123,900,000 unique visitors, an increase of 6%. Those 123 million + visitors were just for the month of May. This is compared to 114,600,000 unique visitors to MySpace, which is down 1% from [...]
Inside EMI
EMI appears set to have quite the week. Tomorrow (6/17), EMI will release the new Coldplay album, Viva la Vida. This is a pretty much guaranteed success story. The album was released in the UK last week and has already sold over 300,000 copies. And Coldplay is a band where people want to listen to [...]
