This is a music business story. Arianna Huffington didn’t know shit about the World Wide Web. She was just a tireless self-promoter who wanted to be famous.  A money hungry woman who married a gay Republican, then divorced him and switched sides.  This is someone to believe in? Of course not. Which is why hair […]

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 […]

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 […]

Forget About Buying Music Online — People Don’t Even Want To STEAL Music Look at the pie chart, don’t read the analysis. Better yet, click on the link just above the pie chart and download the entire study and start reading, it’s utterly fascinating. First and foremost because it seems to be written by people […]