"Want to Be a Rock Star? You’ll Need $100,000" Remember that band in the bubble? Their name was..? I can’t remember. But I do recall them e-mailing me that this was a breakthrough opportunity, getting on a TV show, and now they could reach so many more people! But it turned out those who cared […]

Just because someone yells, that doesn’t mean you should listen. Netflix gained 610,000 subscribers in the U.S. last quarter. The company is just shy of its all time high, it’s now got 24.4 million subscribers, it had 24.59 million at its peak. In other words, the only thing Reed Hastings did wrong was react to […]

There’s a belief that if we just quashed piracy, eliminated all free access to music, coffers would fill once again, musicians would be rich and we’d enter a new golden age. But that’s hogwash. 1. Music competes. With not only video games and movies and TV, but the Net and everything on it. People have […]

From: Mark CubanSubject: Re: Power Top Ten You are dead wrong about acts and tv. If its just a song. Sure. But the days of videos on tv are long gone. If what’s on tv is a concert or unique live experience unique to tv, social at every level, you want to be part of […]