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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 – and what could be classed as the Music industrys defining year such as the web was 2 ...

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 talks about  - and here I am talking about the digital media Long Tail where unlimited ...

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 retail and watching very closely as digital arrived and then continuing this journey even now ...

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 it. There is technology coming that will actually make it easier to share files better, smarter, ...

...TO LATE!!! As most (hopefully ALL) retailers know Easter is the second most important trading time after Christmas! However - how many retailers were ready for this Easter ?? - because this Easter is going to be tough ride... Most retailers will have planned Xmas >> Winter Sale >> Easter - roughly in that order - base their ...

With the 2008 Retail Week Conference coming to London next week (which Conchango is one of the key Sponsors)- I thought that an objective view of the traditional high street was in order to see how in this e-commerce focused age how retailers are coping in the 21st Century and what (if any..) new initiatives and learnings from the digital age have ...

So I started by Blog a few months ago by announcing that we are undertaking a Digital Revolution (Part VIII) – some say that I may have sounded rather cynical, nae, flippant about this topic. I guess that it’s just my age and legacy experience of this space that may have oozed out of my pores...  That was back in May ’07 ...

So in my last post I talked about how there are still companies out there trying to go up against the Mighty Apple and their iPod | iTunes combination - I will continue this debate another time - however it does lead me on to another subject on Retail... In 2007 what can traditional retailers do to combat against the online threat – this is ...