09.25.07 - 04:02pm
Record labels are trying all sorts of ways to sell music in the new digital world and not involve iTunes whose policies on non-varied pricing is frustrating for the labels. Warner may have come up with one of the best solutions so far.
Sticking to the $9.99 iTunes per album price at least for the moment, Warner has decided to try an experiment using one of their hottest artists James Blunt and MySpace. The experiment allows the consumer to listen to the entire album, purchase if you like and recieve an instant download compatible with your iPod, and then get the CD through mail as well for no extra charge. All without leaving the MySpace web page.
Warner has tried to sell music through MySpace before but due to the DRM encodings they were not compatible with the iPod taking away 70 percent of the market right off the top, even with James Blunt’s 250,000 friends 30 percent just doesn’t quite cut it. Warner is excited about LaLa however, because not only do they play the tunes on your iPod and support the varied pricing but they also have a form of anti-piracy protection.
Category: itunes | Tags: itunes, james-blunt, myspace, warner | Be the First to Comment »
07.11.07 - 02:38pm
The iPod has ruled the internet in searches for most of the last three years and it has been thrown off by none other than its close sibling - the iPhone.
Searches of the iPhone tell what people are most interested in with the top 5 iPhone searches relating to, of course, price.
“Problems with my iPhone” landed in at number 6 probably for those who couldn’t figure it out or those who just got plain
mad at not being able to figure it out leading to the 20th most searched term “smashing my iPhone” - Just in case you don’t want to throw your $600 against the wall but can’t get it to work right and feel the need to see someone else do it there is no shortage of YouTube videos showing thousands of dollars being smashed away.
For those who know the price yet go for a different way to obtain it - contests and giveaways - put “free iphone” in the 8th most searched spot.
Category: iPhone, iPod | Tags: apple_website, demograhics, free_iphone, iphones, iPod, myspace, wikipedia, youtube | Be the First to Comment »
01.05.07 - 12:52pm
Ifrogz, creator of the most customizable iPod cases in existence, has a new and upcoming artist featured on it’s website
every month. The artist creates their own exclusive iPod case with ifrogz customizable decals and ifrogz creates a landing page that fans can go to to purchase the case.
Ifrogz gives five of these cases (for free!) to the band and also sells the cases to the band at wholesale prices so they can have them available to give to fans at different shows. Along with this, the band also gets the free publicity of ifrogz’s 1.2 million visitors each month.
This month’s band is Seve vs Evan, a rock band out of Utah. One can go to the ifrogz site to download songs from the band and find out about upcoming showtimes.
Bands that would like to be featured on ifrogz can send emails to featuredartist@ifrogz.com. Included should be the bands myspace page and reasons why your band should be featured on ifrogz.
Category: Bling Bling, ifrogz news, ifrogz specials | Tags: ifrogz, myspace, rock_band | Be the First to Comment »
