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• {Follow Up} Why Entertainment Industry still has Digital all wrong - Midem 2012

  Thanks to all of you that have emailed me regarding my post, I do enjoy the emails that I receive from around the world - and there were a number of questions posed that I decided to add as a supplement Blog post to the original post from yesterday... Read More... Posted 12 January 2012 19:15 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: iTunes, DRM, digital downloads, apple, digital library, fairplay, mp3, Longtail, Amazon, free music, music subscription, music retail, CDs, RIAA, Last FM, BPI, Diary Of A Madman, torrents, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, Coldplay, Terra Firma, Guy Hands, brand development, FLAC, Sony, publishing, google, Torrent Freak, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, PPL, Sharing Media, MCPS/PRS, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, ISP, Internet Service Providers, Warners, the cloud, Make Tech Easier, android, iPhone, iPod, Digital Long Tail, Digital Media Long Tail, business vision, strategy, business strategy, art of strategy, Midem, MidemNet, Digital Music 2.0, user experience, digital rights agency, consulting, total customer experience, Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive, iCloud, cloud, Business Innovation, Innovation, Google Music, The Digital Asylum, MPAA, Netflix

• Why Entertainment Industry still has Digital all wrong - Midem 2012

  With Midem only two weeks away, the South of France will again, be a stage for the music industry to work itself into a frenzy to figure out the best route forward into discovering how to rescue itself from the brink of its own self-importance/ destruction. Read More... Posted 11 January 2012 16:41 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: iTunes, DRM, digital downloads, apple, digital library, fairplay, mp3, Longtail, Amazon, free music, music subscription, music retail, CDs, RIAA, Last FM, BPI, Diary Of A Madman, torrents, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, Coldplay, Terra Firma, Guy Hands, brand development, FLAC, Sony, publishing, google, Torrent Freak, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, PPL, Sharing Media, MCPS/PRS, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, ISP, Internet Service Providers, Warners, the cloud, Make Tech Easier, android, iPhone, iPod, Digital Long Tail, Digital Media Long Tail, business vision, strategy, business strategy, art of strategy, Midem, MidemNet, Digital Music 2.0, user experience, digital rights agency, consulting, total customer experience, Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive, iCloud, cloud, Business Innovation, Innovation, Google Music, The Digital Asylum, MPAA

• Amazon Cloud Drive vs Music Industry

  I realized that I haven't been on here since 2010 with a post about how times have changed within Retail where it used to be a big NO having cameras in your store http://tinyurl.com/Madman2010 Since then, I have blogged elsewhere, written papers, produced Read More... Posted 05 April 2011 14:07 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: conchango, digital downloads, apple, digital library, mp3, Amazon, music subscription, retail, music retail, CDs, Pandora, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, marketing, google, File Sharing, illegal file sharing, MCPS/PRS, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, future of the music industry, Apps Store, the cloud, mobile apps, android, Amazon commerce, iPhone, iPod, Digital Long Tail, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive

• The Madman @ MidemNet 2009

  Digital Nutshell: Issue 4 – MidemNet 2009 Special ~ Digital Music 2.0 Next stop after Las Vegas (as well as a brief stop over in Gibraltar – full analysis of the Online Gaming industry coming soon…) was onto Cannes and the MidemNet digital Music conference Read More... Posted 23 January 2009 11:31 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: conchango, iTunes, digital downloads, apple, digital library, mp3, multi-channel retailing, online retailers, technology, Longtail, Amazon, free music, retail, universal, music retail, hmv, RIAA, Internet Radio, BPI, Diary Of A Madman, Digital Revolution Movement, traditional high street, tesco, torrents, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, Coldplay, Terra Firma, Guy Hands, brand development, 50 year copyright for sound recordings, Sony, publishing, internet value, myspace, social networks, facebook, google, Cookie-tracking technology, Torrent Freak, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, PPL, Sharing Media, Teenage Kicks, Feargal Sharkey, MCPS/PRS, digital living, digital media evangelist, ISP, Internet Service Providers, future of the music industry, live nation, Warners, Radiohead, e-commerce, eCommerce, Amazon commerce, AC/DC, Nokia Comes With Music, Digital Long Tail, Digital Media Long Tail, recession, macro distribution, Tips for 2009, business vision, strategy, art of strategy, Atlantic Records, Qtrax, Podcast of a Madman, Digital Nutshell, EMC Consulting EMEA, Midem, MidemNet, MySpace Music, Courtney Holt, Digital Music 2.0

• The Long Tail in Digital Media

  I have talked enough about this topic in various blogs, presentations and events. Sometimes I try to be explicit in the reasoning and other times I add it as a point of reference... So The Long Tail - as described throughout by Chris Anderson and others Read More... Posted 20 October 2008 16:35 by Derek.Dunlop | 5 Comments Filed under: conchango, iTunes, DRM, digital downloads, apple, digital library, mp3, technology, Longtail, Amazon, free music, music subscription, retail, universal, music retail, CDs, Last FM, Pandora, Diary Of A Madman, tesco, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, the beatles, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, Sharing Media, GenY, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, ISP, future of the music industry, Warners, Apps Store, iPhone, iPod, iTouch, Genius, Target, m-commerce, mobile commerce, future of mobile, Nokia, Nokia Comes With Music, Digital Long Tail, Digital Media Long Tail, Mobile Long Tail

• "All the armies in the world cannot resist an idea whose time has come..."

  OK, before I begin let me just reiterate one more time just why I keep going on about this any what experience / authority do I have in this area! I have been working in the music area for almost 20 years - most of that right in the "coal face" within Read More... Posted 08 August 2008 12:19 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: conchango, wma, digital downloads, digital library, mp3, Longtail, free music, universal, music retail, hmv, CDs, BPI, Diary Of A Madman, Digital Revolution Movement, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, Coldplay, Terra Firma, Guy Hands, FLAC, 50 year copyright for sound recordings, Sony, publishing, mergers, acquisitions, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, PPL, MCPS/PRS, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, 360° contracts, future of the music industry, live nation, rolling stones, Warners

• Illegal filesharers “Letter” Imminent” Part 2

  Sorry for the rant at the start of this topic (see Part 1) However we are always a nation of wrong priorities... Anyway Part 2 - is here! Let’s start with a brief history.. Filesharing among kids, adults, boys, girls, mums and dads etc.. everyone does Read More... Posted 26 July 2008 00:36 by Derek.Dunlop | 1 Comments Filed under: conchango, community, DRM, digital downloads, digital library, mp3, online retailers, technology, Longtail, free music, music subscription, podcasts, retail, universal, virgin, music retail, cover mounts, CDs, Last FM, Pandora, Internet Radio, BPI, Diary Of A Madman, Digital Revolution Movement, torrents, movie downloads, dsp, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, Coldplay, Terra Firma, Guy Hands, the beatles, 50 year copyright for sound recordings, publishing, internet value, myspace, social networks, yahoo!, facebook, social shopping, OiNK, Torrent Freak, File Sharing, P2P, illegal file sharing, BMR, PPL, Sharing Media, GenY, Feargal Sharkey, MCPS/PRS, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, Virgin Media, ISP, Internet Service Providers

• When "Teenage Kicks" turn to "Middle-aged Hypocrisy"

  Sometimes I think that the music business today could'nt shock or surprise me anymore - then I realise that while we go through this defining phase where you have to think differently and Generation Y has a very different outlook on how they consume their Read More... Posted 16 June 2008 20:45 by Derek.Dunlop | 1 Comments Filed under: conchango, digital downloads, digital library, mp3, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, EMI, BMR, PPL, Sharing Media, Teenage Kicks, Samsung, F400 Share, GenY, Feargal Sharkey, MCPS/PRS

• Welcome to the Free World (Blog version)

  A little while ago along with my usual ranting and ramblings I actually was strapped down and forced to write in a cohesive and structured manner. This of course goes against the grain of what I do - as I like to ramble on and on and go off in various Read More... Posted 16 May 2008 13:01 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: conchango, wma, iTunes, plays for sure, DRM, windows media player, digital downloads, apple, digital library, mp3, wmv, multi-channel retailing, free music, music subscription, retail, CPA, music retail, Last FM, Pandora, Diary Of A Madman, Digital Revolution Movement, movie downloads, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, Robbie Williams, Guy Hands, marketing, AIFF, myspace, online advertising, CPC, BBC

• Disposable Heroes

  In my quest and mission to inform and of course to put my tuppence worth in in regard to the state of the music industry - I think you have got to look at the state of the business and how the consumer ultimately sees and feels about their music, bands, Read More... Posted 09 April 2008 10:38 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: conchango, community, digital downloads, digital library, mp3, technology, free music, music retail, CDs, RIAA, Last FM, Internet Radio, reverend and the makers, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, EMI, Music Industry, marketing, the beatles, myspace, social networks, facebook