Archive for 2011/02


Live Nation

It’s an e-commerce play. Concert promotion is a 4% business.  Do you really think a new competitor is gonna come out of nowhere to give an act all its money?  Hell, it’s 4% if you win, what if you lose?  Which is why we’ve got ticket fees and all sorts of ancillaries.  And Live Nation […]

Black Eyed Peas At The Super Bowl

I’d like to say they were terrible, unwatchable, the end of the world as we know it. But they were not. They were a representation of America…yesterday. Have you noticed the new BEP album has stiffed?  That none of the singles has broken through?  Live by the hit, die by the hit. But I want […]

Deadmau5

"Rolling Stone" is afraid to put Deadmau5 on its cover.  That space is reserved for Elton John.  After all, they’ve got to sell magazines. I love Elton.  Although reading the story he comes off like an old queen who may be sober but is still spreading too much love, like an inebriated college student. I […]

E-Mail Of The Day (Night?)

In January 2010, the ratio of DashGo revenues from iTunes:YouTube was 25:1 In December 2010 the ratio was 2:1 In twelve months YouTube streaming revenue grew to 50 cents on the dollar to iTunes. Every day a few thousand people buy our content on iTunes. Every day on YouTube a few million people stream our […]