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by jeff goldman on May 22, 2009
A study by PRS for Music's Will Page and BigChampagne Media Measurement's Eric Garland, entitled The Long Tail of P2P [PDF file], finds that P2P filesharing only makes popular music more popu...
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by jeff goldman on April 2, 2009
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An NPD Group survey of teens aged 13 to 17 has found that teens' use of P2P networks to download music dropped by 6 percent in 2008.
As WebProNews' Mike Sachoff reports, that ...
Firstly, hi all, I'm back from holiday, and ready to blog again.
The first story I have for you is another one of those typical piracy surveys conducted by a big company, where the end results ...
A new study, by Furturesource Consulting has shed some light on how piracy is going in the film industry; and it's bad news for the big wigs.
A third of all people surveyed admitted to making c...
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by Jordan Grodecki on November 28, 2007
In a nice new study, Ipoque, an internet provider and data analyzer, has concluded that a rather large percentage of people over the world use p2p. Nothing new there, but the hard percentages behind...
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by Jordan Grodecki on November 7, 2007
radiohead took a risk with their distribution method for In Rainbows, their latest record; they let you, the buyer choose how much you wanted to pay, or, not pay, as the case may be.
The data comes...
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by Marc on July 26, 2007
According to research firm IMMI, parents watch more video on TV, DVD, and theaters than children. Now maybe that's because kids are on the phones and computers IMing, surfing, and YouTubing. But I...
How big is YouTube? It is far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites combined, according to Hitwise, an Internet Audience Measurement company.
Google's acquisition and site promotion hiked i...
Italian researchers surveyed the country's consumers to study the relationship between P2P and CD sales. They found that only a minority of file sharers, 30 percent, reduced CD purchases, while an...
The NPD Group's latest research confirms research from other sources that P2P is not the top offender in unauthorized downloading. The finding questions the record industry's war against its f...
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by Marc on April 10, 2007
The Digital Media Desktop Report directly measures desktop software installations for accuracy. It's not a survey Music applications (non-P2P) are ranked below: Not surprisingly, Windows Media Pla...
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by Marc on April 2, 2007
End of year numbers from The NPD Group and IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) show both and Web and P2P music downloads continuing to rise.
On the web licensed songs double...
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by Marc on March 21, 2007
According to Nielsen Soundscan, there were 581 million downloads in 2006 for a growth rate of 54 percent over last year, less than the previous year's growth rate of 163 percent. Market share lead...
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by Marc on January 30, 2007
eMarketer projects that digital media content spending will grow from $1.3 billion in 2005 to $7.8 billion in 2010. Online video is small now but will take off as more legitimate content is made avail...
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by Marc on January 23, 2007
Online video gets real in 2007 and breaks the billion dollar level. According to Strategy Analytics, online TV, movie, and other video sales will grow from $300 million in 2006 to $1.5 billion in 2007...
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by Marc on September 13, 2006
NARM, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, recently held its big trade show at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee, FL near Orlando. Todd Beals had excellent coverage - NARM Show DAY...
South Korean P2P service Soribada was forced to close its free P2P service. It re-opened as an authorized subscription service in July with signed contracts with 350 music rights holders.
At its pea...
Let's consider the children. A recent survey of tweens, teens, and young adults shows that the percent considering an act illegal drops from 98% for stealing a CD/DVD to 80% for buying a bootleg C...
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by Marc on July 6, 2006
Do you know where your bandwidth is?
While the Net Neutrality discussion rages on, the reality is that ISPs have long given different treatment to various kinds of data, depending on its source, type...
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by Marc on June 27, 2006
According to "Bridge Ratings Radio Format Perceptual - Spring 2006," digital media is definitely changing radio listening habits. But it's not a simple equation. Direct replacements like...
Not long after RIAA Prez Cary Sherman's inane answers in a CNET interview, RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol continues the fantasy with the USA Today article "RIAA chief says illegal song-sharing 'c...
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by Marc on June 6, 2006
48 million Americans, over one-third of users, now publish and share media on the Internet from the latest Pew internet survey. Those file sharers are no longer the young kids but include all ages and...
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by Marc on May 20, 2006
The Internet has reached a huge milestone. According to Worldwide Online Access: 2004-2010 one billion people are now online, 845 million being regular users. That's a lot of digital mail, music, ...
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by Marc on March 30, 2006
While RIAA has claimed that it is defeating P2P, that is not true. CacheLogic shares actual P2P traffic statistics in a 2004 reportand 2005 report update. The reports show that P2P users have shifted ...
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by Marc on January 20, 2006
What's hot? The Chronicles of Narnia is most downloaded movie over P2P. Research firm Big Champagne monitors what songs and films are most popular among file sharers.
The top flicks this week:
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by Marc on January 12, 2006
According to Big Champagne, despite the lawsuits against developers and consumers, P2P use continued to rise in 2005. Here are stats for the average number of people logged onto the p2p networks:
US...
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by Marc on August 3, 2005
Despite years of entertainment industry PR, educational programs, and industry and consumer lawsuits, P2P usage continues to rise, according to this P2P usage chart from Big Champagne.
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by Marc on July 28, 2005
According to a survey from music research group The Leading Question, music consumers who download and share files over P2P spend four times (4x!) as much money on legal downloads (Apple's iT...
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by Marc on March 24, 2005
According to a Pew survey, 16% of people say they download music and video via P2P, while 17% say they've used P2P in the past. Given that file sharing activity continues to rise, there seems to b...
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