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More about predictive dialers?
Filed in archive Business , Information About by Shawn Hessinger on March 6, 2010
What are predictive dialers and how are they put to use in the sales and call center industry? Well, imagine you had call center staff of perhaps 30 to 50 agents just waiting to speak with prospects...
A Million Fewer Paid Downloads in 2009
Filed in archive Business by jeff goldman on February 25, 2010
Research firm NPD Group reports that there were a million fewer buyers of digital downloads in 2009 than in 2008. "Russ Crupnick, an NPD senior industry analyst, told a gathering of music and te...
Virgin Media to Monitor for File Sharing
Filed in archive Business by jeff goldman on November 28, 2009
© dailyinvention Virgin Media has announced plans to monitor its own network traffic to look for file sharing activity. "The company announced on Thursday that it would perform a trial o...
Virgin Media Cancels 'Virgin Music Unlimited' P2P Service
Filed in archive Business by jeff goldman on January 24, 2009
The Register's Andrew Orlowski broke the news this week that Virgin Media had dropped its plans to offers a legal P2P file sharing service. "The radical initiative, tentatively branded as Vir...
Sony BMG sued for piracy
Filed in archive Business by Jordan Grodecki on March 30, 2008
In a hilariously ironic turn of events, Sony BMG, a company who are often seen trying to prevent copyright theft, are being sued for copyright infringement themselves. PointDev, a much smaller compa...
48% of teens don't buy CDs...
Filed in archive Business by Jordan Grodecki on February 28, 2008
In yet another blow to the CD industry, the current generation of kids is just...not buying cds, and are prefering to look to digital, and often pirated downloads of music instead. Almost half the p...
NBC Not Getting It
Filed in archive Business , Companies , Entertainment industry by Marc on September 7, 2007
NBC Universal is removing its popular video seriess from iTunes in a bid to weaken Apple's dominant position. The entertainment industry has been fighting back by supporting other online services....
Don't Blame P2P for the Demise of the CD
Filed in archive Business , Commentary by Marc on September 6, 2007
The NPD Group, in conjunction with NARM, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, said that consumer rejection of the CD format and use of digital files, iPods, and P2P are not the reason ...
The Pendulum Swings to Streaming
Filed in archive Business by Marc on August 29, 2007
P2P has epitomized the swinging pendulum of media technology. Streaming vs. downloading is cyclical as consumer expectations and choices are shaped by available media, bandwidth, and business external...
P2P to Generate $5 Billion Per Year
Filed in archive Analysis , Business , Internet by Marc on August 23, 2007
According to Insight Research's 51 page market report, "Peer-to-Peer & File-Sharing Services Market 2007-2011", P2P could generate up to $28 billion in revenues for telecom carriers ...
Music's Swan Dive: Self-Inflicted Wounds
Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on August 20, 2007
Rolling Stone published an in-depth feature on The Record Industry's Decline. Now that a new generation of executives is driving the record companies, they can admit what everyone else has known f...
Digital Entertainment : The End is Near
Filed in archive Analysis , Business , Entertainment industry by Marc on August 9, 2007
If the music biz thinks its declining business will get easier, it's dead wrong. To the contrary, it's a harbinger for the rest of the digital entertainment sector. That's the conclusion ...
What's Your Story: Stand and Deliver
Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Marketing by Marc on July 24, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing. 1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas 2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple 3. What's Your Story...
What's Your Story: Make me care
Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Marketing by Marc on July 19, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing. 1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas 2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple 3. What's Your Story...
P2P Industry Update: Slow Progress
Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on July 18, 2007
What are the prospects for the P2P industry and music and video distribution now that the legal issues have been decided by the Supreme Court? As I've previously written, the ongoing litigation ...
What's Your Story: All business is drama
Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Marketing by Marc on July 16, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing. 1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas 2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple 3. What's Your Story...
It's Back: 10 Things I Hate About Commandments
Filed in archive Business , Entertainment industry , Free and Legal Files , Society & Public Policy , Video by Marc on June 26, 2007
It's a comedy 3,000 years in the making and Viacom shut it down. The DMCA makes it easy for copyright holders to request content be removed. But what about when they get it wrong? Viacom has se...
Fun Friday: Free Distribution is The Key to Making a Living
Filed in archive Artists , Business , Free and Legal Files , Fun , Marketing by Marc on June 15, 2007
New York artist and former software programmer Jonathan Coulton is profiled in the New York Times magazine section. He explains how he's created a full-time living through free distribution. He wr...
Low Song Pricing Is Here To Stay
Filed in archive Business , Entertainment industry , Marketing , Society & Public Policy by Marc on June 12, 2007
Leading online music store eMusic with has driven song prices down as low as 25¢ if you max out their song bundles. eMusic offers over two million tracks, all in open MP3 format. But many labels aren...
Is DRM a Dirty Word?
Filed in archive Analysis , Business , DRM by Marc on May 21, 2007
Consumers are strongly reacting negatively to DRM. But here will always be situations where it's better accepted, such as for business and hard-to-share content. I wrote about this in "The Fu...
Will Customers Pay for P2PTV?
Filed in archive Business , International , Video by Marc on May 10, 2007
The Mexican phone company TELMEX will see. TELMEX is launching Prodigy Media with streaming and downloadable video initially for free. TELMEX is the dominant telephone provider and so is restricted in...
P2P Lending Overview
Filed in archive Business , Lending by Marc on May 2, 2007
This article is a part of a series on P2P Lending: 1. P2P Lending Overview 2. P2P Borrowers 3. P2P Lenders 4. P2P Lender Profile: Prosper 5. P2P Lender Profile: Zopa P2P lending is a new application...
Touring For Victory
Filed in archive Artists , Business , Companies , Entertainment industry by Marc on April 12, 2007
The music business is changing. Digital downloads have empowered consumers who have turned their back on CDs and albums. Industry sales have stagnated. Successful record labels will have to diversify....
Unlimited, Except When It's Not
Filed in archive Business , Companies , Consumer rights by Marc on April 10, 2007
One of the Internet's dirty secrets is that there are limits. Now that's fine, as long as companies are up front and honest about it. Verizon steps over the line with its advertising of the ...
P2P Goes Corporate
Filed in archive Business by Marc on February 21, 2007
File sharing isn't just for kids. P2P networks, typically private, are increasingly integrated into the business world. The Wall Street Journal featured a few different examples. Vehicle manufac...
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