It’s no secret that the music industry got snowed by 13-year-old boys on Napster (and its predecessors). First, they fought tooth and nail against this digital revolution. Then they accepted defeat, brushed off their egos and tried to play catch-up, devising myriad monetization schemes (none of them as good as free.)
But they won’t make the […]
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The Mobile Music Landscape
December 10th, 2007 by Allison
Tags: Culture & Entertainment · Mobile · Music
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The Fader Sideshow and AT&T Digital World
November 16th, 2007 by NGT
The Fader Sideshow, during last month’s CMJ music marathon, drew hip Lower East Siders to a pop-up lounge on Orchard Street in Manhattan. The event featured some of CMJ’s hottest up-and-coming DJs and rock bands including White Denim, Cool Kids, We Are Wolves and Turbo Fruits.
FH Youth & Mobile Marketing partnered with Fader magazine for […]
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Avatars: Virtually Mainstream
November 8th, 2007 by David
Target’s avatar fashion show in New York’s Grand Central this week
In September, we reported on how labels like Prada and H&M are getting involved in anime movies like Appleseed: Ex Machina and shows like the Sims 2 Fashion Runway Showcase. This week, Target joined the “in” crowd, sponsoring “the world’s first model-less fashion show”—a holographic […]
Tags: Culture & Entertainment · Emerging Technology · Fashion & Retail · Marketing & Advertising · Movies · Music · TV & Video · World Wide Web
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Kylie Konnects with Fans on the Handset
November 5th, 2007 by Allison
Artists and labels have been exploring different ways to market and monetize their music beyond MySpace. We just heard that Sony BMG is going to be selling J Lo’s latest album, Brave, on a fancy wooden flash drive (for $70!!) Meanwhile, artists are dropping their labels like bad habits. AmieStreet, MOG, Pure Volume, Indistr, Sellaband, […]
Tags: Culture & Entertainment · Mobile · Music · Social Networking
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Geeks and Hip Hop Artists, Kindred Spirits?
November 5th, 2007 by Sherrie
While capturing a mainstream audience, hip hop maintains roots in outsider communities and often acts as a cultural disseminator of niche trends. One could argue that geek has gone mainstream ever since Seth Cohen and Deathcab, but if you walk up the the narrow stairs at 40th Street to Midtown Comics, you definitely won’t catch […]
Tags: Music · Youth Trends
