Archive for the 'quantifiction' Category
Pricing Digital Music: An academic perspective
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 25th, 2007 in Digital Music, Digital downloading, Market Research & Intelligence, Quantification, Research, Research Summary, Survey, academics, anti-drm, file sharing, monetization, mp3, p2p monetization, p2p research, pricing, quantifiction.Trolling SSRN I came across another academic report destroying much of the FUD put out by the RIAA in their attempt to criminalize digital downloads. Like all good academic studies it has a cumbersome and wordy title, The Analog Hole and the Price of Music: An Empirical Study, which belies the rather simple text contained [...]
IFPI: Digital Musics Gonna be Big
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello January 17th, 2007 in Digital Music, IFPI, Quantification, Record stores, Research, copyright, mp3, quantifiction.The good folks at the IFPI released a report (pdf) today which pegged the size of the digital music industry at $2 billion. This is double the size it was in 2005 and while thats great news, but still doesnt cover the homaging in the rest of the industry. Music sales are expected to continue [...]
Pontificate like a Pro: Research Summary
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 12th, 2006 in A-List Bloggers, Blogosphere, Blogs and Blogging, Quantification, Research, Research Summary, blog rank, quantifiction.
(Pontificate 1999)
Two reports have come out this month that are worth taking a look at. The first is from the phoenix of Wall Street, Mary Meeker, who has survived greed and scandals to once again reign as one of the leading Internet pundits. The second is David Sifry’s quarterly report on the [...]
Music Biz Misplaces $40 Billion. Opps!
4 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 17th, 2006 in Digital Music, Entertainment, Quantification, Tech Musings, fun with excel, iPod, iPod/iTunes, quantifiction.Back in February I attended a panel discussion with the always humorous, Chief Digital Officer of MTV, Jason Hirschorn. One of the many provocative questions he threw out to the audience was "what are people filling their iPods with" given that only a billion songs have been sold for the 43 million iPods in circulation. [...]
