Well, the returns are in on Radiohead’s experiment in name-your-figure pricing and… it’s not pretty. At least not if you were thinking of model as having broader applications in a world where more and more consumers are ignoring the copyright restrictions that support many content-providers. A ComScore release says that of the 60% of Americans […]
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No gold at the end of “In Rainbows”
November 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Tags: Media · Consumer Control · Music · New models · Matt Creamer
In Ad Age: More Radiohead
October 9th, 2007 · No Comments
In this week’s Ad Age, I took a look at whether traditional media companies now struggling with content models–i.e. how to get paid when everything’s going free–had anything to learn from Thom Yorke & Co.
Tags: Music · Advertising · New models · Matt Creamer
RIAA nonsense
October 5th, 2007 · No Comments
A quick look at my record collection suggests I probably have about 500 CDs that are burned version of discs that friends bought, copied between 1992 (when I started listening to music) and 2004 (when I stopped buying CDs). I’d guess I’ve probably copied 500 of my own purchases for other people over that same […]
Tags: Music · Intellectual property · New models
The latest triumph for consumer control from…Radiohead
October 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments
This is huge news if you care at all about how traditional media companies and marketing approaches are adapting to a digital world. Radiohead, an enormously popular British band that’s long been able to balance both critical acclaim and underground cred with mass appeal, announced last night that customers will be able to set their […]
Tags: Consumer Control · Music · Intellectual property · New models · Matt Creamer