One more day. We’re here for Mancini night at the Proms. Well, to be specific, it’s entitled “Ultra Lounge – Henry Mancini and Beyond.” It’s Hank’s 100th birthday and there have been events all year long trying to raise awareness and consumption. The ultimate goal is to reach the younger generations, but just like with […]

This is what unregulated free speech looks like. Unusable. What did we lose with Steve Jobs? Simple user interfaces, a reduction in complication, leaving the past behind to go into the future. And with the loss of Twitter, we’ve given up instant news. Used to be if you had a question about what was happening, […]

Live by the hit, die by the hit. That’s why you don’t want to be a pop star. Used to be it was a reasonable trade. Everybody in the world knew your name and you could tour forever on even one hit. Not anymore. Now you can have a hit and not be able to […]

Don’t confuse consumption with reach. In other words, today’s metrics, which are really yesterday’s metrics, don’t give an accurate picture of what is happening in the landscape, they don’t indicate how big an act is, rather how many times one person listened to one song. Think about that. In the pre-internet days of scarcity it […]