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Music Labels Don’t Understand the Real Value of Music

Posted on 10 March, 2015 by Mark Ramsey

Memo to music labels: The “value” of music is defined by consumers, fans, and listeners, not by you and your minions. From Billboard: A renewed focus on the value of music comes as a transition point for the record business. Rob Wells, Universal Music Group’s president of digital who brokered deals with “freemium” services like […]

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Posted in apple, billboard, free, freemium, label, mark ramsey, mark ramsey media, Media, monetize, music, Radio's Future, ramsey-blog, sam goody, spotify, tower records, value

And Radio’s Best Chance for the Future is…

Posted on 13 January, 2014 by Mark Ramsey

If there’s one book this year that best sums up what the radio industry has to do to compete in a world of infinite choice, it’s this one: Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment. It’s a heavily researched and highly readable book by Harvard professor Anita Elberse. I talked with Anita to test […]

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Posted in am, amazon, anita elberse, big bets, blockbusters, espn, future, harvard, hits, Insights, Interviews, itunes, label, long tail, mark ramsey, mark ramsey media, maroon 5, Media, netflix, nfl, octone, radio, radio industry, Radio's Future, ramsey-blog, risk, small bets, sports, trends