Email that my husband got from LinkedIn. Yes, *my husband.* Man, something is WRONG with that algorithm…
Story in yesterday’s Times about the business of “script evaluation” discusses how, “For as much as $20,000 per script, Mr. [Vinny] Bruzzese and a team of analysts compare the story structure and genre of a draft script with those of released movies, looking for clues to box-office success. His company, Worldwide Motion Picture Group, also digs into an extensive database of focus group results for similar films and surveys 1,500 potential moviegoers. What do you like? What should be changed?”
The story compares this to Netflix and Pandora’s use of data to make recommendations to customers, but I can’t help but think about the way radio station conglomerates used research to create radio station formats in the 90s. That essentially erased any original programming and we now have the homogenous, focus-grouped radio station formats today that offer extremely limited opportunities for new artists. I’d even argue they played a part in the decline of the music industry. Bad, bad idea, Hollywood! Don’t do it!
Madge rules. At the Met gala for Punk: Chaos to Couture.
“What Aereo is doing to bring broadcast signals to its customers is interesting. If it is found legal, we could conceivably use similar technology.”
Time Warner Cable chief executive Glenn Britt in an interview with The Washington Post, via PaidContent. Whoa.
“I am announcing today that the House Judiciary Committee will hold a comprehensive series of hearings on US copyright law in the months ahead. The goal of these hearings will be to determine whether the laws are still working in the digital age… There is much work to be done.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman and Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte as quoted in Digital Music News. They have to have a hearing to determine “whether” they are working??
From Sunday:
One of the more hard-fought gTLD names up for grabs is the one for .music, which has attracted much attention.
Two of the rivals are striving to short-circuit a full-blown auction by showing that they represent the wider community in the music world: a Nashville, Tenn.-based company called Far Further, which has the backing of the Recording Industry Association of America and close to 40 other trade groups; and a Cyprus businessman, Constantine Roussos, whose company has been doing business as dotMusic Ltd. since 2005, and has backing from a number of agencies across the globe.
If either can prove to ICANN that it legitimately represents the community of musicians worldwide, it can avoid the domain going to the highest bidder at auction.
“If you can prove you have community status, it gives you kind of a trump card,” said Crawford, who will be in Beijing this week jockeying for his clients. “You have to be able to demonstrate that you do represent the community.”
Amazon and Google have been particularly active in applying for domain names. Amazon is reportedly seeking 76 gTLDs, including one for .music. Google is also in the hunt for .music; it has applied for 101 names altogether.
In a bid to strengthen his hand, Roussos has filed a legal-rights objection against all other .music applications with the World Intellectual Property Organization. “It is clear that if ICANN grants the applied-for .music gTLD to any of these applicants, it will create intended material harm to us [and] take unfair advantage of and unjustifiably impair the distinctive character and goodwill reputation of our .music-related trademarks,” he claimed.
By April 15, ICANN will publicly notify participants if there are any objections to their requests; parties will have 30 days to respond. —Keith J. Kelly
eMarketer says marketers will spend $100 million more than previously forecast…. quite a spike!
And that’s got to make this guy happy.
“…research shows that despite hundreds of digital discovery options and hundreds of millions invested in ‘disruptive’ startups, music discovery is mostly happening on traditional radio, traditional TV, and through word-of-mouth.”
Per EMI research cited today on DMN, 55% of 16,000 respondents discover new music through traditional radio, and 38% through TV. That’s because more people are “passive” about music discovery than willing to take the time to actively seek out new music. If they want to impact a mainstream audience, Spotify and other startups need to find ways they can reach that passive music listener. Spotify is taking a shot with a new TV ad campaign, but to date only Apple has been successful in this regard when it introduced the iPod. Unfortunately, I don’t think the Spotify campaign can touch the “Silhouettes” campaign from the iPod launch.
The conference this year is scattered all over the country, and the New York outpost is happening at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts building on April 18 and 19. Here’s the panel I’m moderating.
Friday, April 19, 4:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. From A Stream To A Torrent: Discovery In The Age Of One-Click…
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