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Lessons Learned: Ownership vs. Streaming Pt. 3

Another follow-up on the Ownership vs. Streaming posts. This time some personal insights from my friend Sofia, a Swedish Spotify user. This definitely makes Spotify sound like something that could...

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The Incumbent Almost Always Loses (Or Earning Your Spot)

The quote below is from a Vanity Fair article on how the “The Art of Fielding” came to be a best-selling book after more than ten years of writing. Talk about wanting it badly and really committing to...

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The Best Does Not Always Win (Or Why Spotify Will Beat Rdio)

Back in the 70′s and 80′s a product war was waged between JVC and Sony over whose format would become the market standard. JVC created the VHS format and Sony the Betamax one. Betamax in many ways was...

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The New Way Of Consuming Music (Or A Dollar Less To Rihanna Means A Dollar...

Charlamagne is a radio DJ and the sentiment echoed below is not a new one. At Family Records we’re always trying to think ahead of the curve of mainstream music consumption behavior and as we prepare...

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The Benefits Of Streaming (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)

I was a Spotify US beta tester about a year ago and have to admit that I didn’t really “get” it. The ugly design was (and still is) distracting, the search was (and is) broken, and I just fled back to...

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Fans Would Love To Pay For Music (Or The Tale Of The Reluctant Pirate)

Fred Wilson recently wrote about his experience as a loyal and paying cable TV basketball viewer, and how a lack of options has driven him to consume the pirated product instead. A customer more than...

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One World (Or The Inelegant Sadness Of Lost Transactions)

I discovered Gotye‘s “Somebody That I Used To Know” about five months ago when Rosi Golan recommended it. I had it on repeat for days, eagerly anticipating the release of the album*. Everything was...

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Help Your Customer (Or Fighting Them Means Losing Them)

Marco wrote a post in which he shared what I believe to be the average consumer’s reaction to a really dumb distribution idea on part of a content company. First the dumb idea, by way of the LA Times....

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Why Grizzly Bear Is Wrong (Or How Streaming Helps Bands)

Mog and Spotify do not help bands or labels or indie stores. Not shaming you, just stating the facts since someone asked — Grizzly Bear (@grizzlybear) August 31, 2012   After reading the recent New...

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