More Music Industry News: Cheaper Tickets?, YouTube Revamp, End Of iPod Era & More
The End of the Road?: The concert business, a lone bright spot in
the struggling music industry, is in trouble this summer. A tale of bad
backs, canceled acts and angry fans. (WSJ) In response, Live Nation and Ticketmaster promise cheaper concerts. (BBC)- YouTube revamps its mobile site and launches Leanback offering. (Music Ally)
- Cardiff-based company launch website for music merchandise: Dizzyjam.com aims to help musicians and promoters survive in a competitive industry by promoting their merchandise. (Guardian)
- Twitter is now the world's fastest growing search engine. (FC)
- The End of the iPod Era: How the iPod has become Irrelevant to Apple's Growth & The Other Side of the Debate. (Part One & Two)
- 17 Ways bands should use email to grow their fan base and sales. (MN)
- Settlement talks fail in Jammie Thomas file-sharing lawsuit. (DMW)
- P2P Responsible for 20% of Decline in Music Sales. (ZeroPaid)
- 40+ Essential Social Business Resources. (Mashable)
- Educational institutions tackle piracy albeit reluctantly. (TMCNet)
- Time Warner Cable refuses to cooperate with BitTorrent lawsuit. (Paste)
- Mike Masnick asks, in response to Music Think Tank essay, Is it better to *require* or *request* something in return for free content? (TechDirt)
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On the sag in the live concert business: I was trying to remember what I paid for the big-time rock concerts of my boomer-y youth in the years around 1980: Jethro Tull, Yes, Talking Heads, the B-52s, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, R.E.M. These were all arena or amphitheater shows. And I realized that I could not remember what I had paid for any of them: whatever the tickets cost back then, it simply was not a remarkable number of dollars.