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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

• 2012 Search: Who will find you & how?

  In 2011 Google did the unthinkable or for a lot of people, the “about time” by dropping their all new Panda algorithm that would change the old school way that it had spidered and indexed sites previously. This in part was a pre-cursor for Google+ and Read More... Posted 04 January 2012 15:59 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: apple, multi-channel retailing, online retailers, Longtail, Amazon, retail, SEO, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, marketing, brand development, internet value, online advertising, social networks, microsoft, facebook, google, ad words, business intelligence, master data management, social shopping, Sharing Media, mobile apps, mobile, e-commerce, eCommerce, Amazon commerce, m-commerce, mobile commerce, Mobile Long Tail, 360° Retail, strategy, business strategy, Retail Commerce, social media, consulting, total customer experience, Siri, 2012, Flow, Bing, Google Panda, Search, Meta Property, omni-channel, Google+, Meta Data, Search Engine

• Innovate..Evolve..or become irrelevant (Baby Boomers vs Gen X)

  The world is a very different place than what it was 20 years ago! Nice opening statement from the ‘school of the bloody obvious’ isn’t it? Well you would think so, 20 years ago back in 1991 we were a very different breed, we had a taster of technology Read More... Posted 04 November 2011 15:47 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: multi-channel retailing, brand identity, Diary Of A Madman, Music Industry, marketing, brand development, mergers, business intelligence, GenY, business vision, business strategy, art of strategy, consulting, patents, Gen X, Business Innovation, Evolution, Innovation, Unions, Baby Boomers, kodak, Union Workforce

• The Cloud in 2008 (including iCloud ?)

  What is great about running a blog for almost 5 years, is you can look back and see if you were accurate in your thinking and future strategy planning, or not. Back in August 2008, I wrote a couple of pieces around the emerging Cloud trend. Fast forward Read More... Posted 27 June 2011 13:28 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: iTunes, digital downloads, apple, digital library, fairplay, technology, music subscription, Diary Of A Madman, movie downloads, digital media, Music Industry, brand development, microsoft, File Sharing, illegal file sharing, Sharing Media, digital living, digital lifestyle, future of the music industry, Mozilla Labs, software as a service, SaaS, mozilla foundation, mobileMe, the cloud, Live Mesh, Mac, cloudbusting, Marketplace, Steve Jobs, Open Source, iPhone, iPod, iTouch, long term goals, art of strategy, Apple TV, iPlayer, Mobile Me, user experience, Amazon CloudFront, consulting, total customer experience, Spotify, Amazon Cloud Drive, iCloud, consumer champion, cloud

• Retail & eCommerce: Why is it not going to plan?

  I was prompted to write this blog in a sort of pseudo response to an article in the FT  article http://tinyurl.com/RetailFT around the predictions of ecommerce and why there is not the glutton of mass adoption of this medium. Well firstly it is doing Read More... Posted 08 July 2009 14:31 by Derek.Dunlop | 2 Comments Filed under: high street brands, multi-channel retailing, pop up retail, retail, Diary Of A Madman, brand development, social networks, social shopping, retail theatre, retail training, e-commerce, eCommerce, recession, recession retail, 360° Retail, business vision, strategy, business strategy, EMC Consulting EMEA, death of the high street, UK High Street, UK Retail, Retail Commerce, social media

• Social Media Networks & Communication Services: When do you engage and How?

  At what point do retailers embrace the social shopping sphere? From reviews, comments, payments, marketing and brand voice, where and how do they begin? There are so many social networks and sites here today gone tomorrow that retailers and brands are  Read More... Posted 03 July 2009 12:29 by Derek.Dunlop | 2 Comments Filed under: community, multi-channel retailing, brand identity, online retailers, retail, Diary Of A Madman, digital media, marketing, Loyalty, brand development, internet value, myspace, social networks, facebook, social shopping, digital living, digital media evangelist, e-commerce, eCommerce, recession retail, strategy, business strategy, Twitter, micro e-commerce, micro, nano commerce, tweets, social media etiquette, social media

• Amazon: from e-tailer to the worlds first e-shopping mall?

  I’ve been talking about the state of the high street for my last few posts and of course will continue to discuss and debate the future and where there could be some light at the end of the tunnel (looking specifically at the launch of Wellworths - a Read More... Posted 13 March 2009 20:28 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: digital downloads, high street brands, multi-channel retailing, brand identity, online retailers, Longtail, Amazon, retail, Diary Of A Madman, traditional high street, digital media, brand development, online advertising, microsoft, virtual high street, retail week, business tools, business intelligence, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, web platform, Marketplace, e-commerce, eCommerce, Amazon commerce, mobile commerce, recession retail, micro distribution, macro distribution, 360° Retail, 2009, business vision, business strategy, EMC Consulting EMEA, UK High Street, UK Retail, Retail Commerce, web technology, micro e-commerce, nano technology, nano commerce, Amazon CloudFront, AWS, TwitPay, jeff bezos, 722, e-shopping mall, EC2, Amazon S3

• 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

• ...every little helps! - The story so far...

  I have kept relatively quiet over the last 18months on this - due to the sensitive nature of what we, at Conchango, have been developing for one of the UK's biggest retailer! So to help demystify, clear up and also show some of the innovation that Conchango Read More... Posted 18 November 2008 11:30 by Derek.Dunlop | 0 Comments Filed under: conchango, iTunes, DRM, digital downloads, music retail, Diary Of A Madman, movie downloads, digital media, Music Industry, brand development, digital living, digital media evangelist, digital lifestyle, Conchango Digital Commerce Platform, DCP, Digital Media Long Tail, business strategy