The trendiness of mobile apps has made them a popular tactic among some marketers who want the latest, coolest thing—even if it doesn’t always make sense for their brand. In some sense, they may be right as latest research reveals. emarketer.com...
The French recorded music market has experienced a sudden pause in its fragile recovery, labels trade body Snep revealed. The market went down 2.2% in trade value year on year for the first nine months of 2010, to €340.2 million ($465 million). billboard.com...
The initial Beatles sales figures are in: More than 450,000 albums and 2 million individual songs were sold on iTunes worldwide, according to Apple, since the Beatles catalog was made available last week. In U.S. the best-selling album was “Abbey Road” and best-selling song was...
Singers, painters and television presenters were demonstrating across the Netherlands at the weekend against the government’s plans to slash funding and subsidies for the arts. Thousands of members of the public also were attending events around the country, and organizers called for protesters to scream together...
By 2015, there could be as many as 35 million people paying to subscribe to mobile adult paysites, according to Juniper Research. The analyst claims that the boom in smartphone sales, as well as cheap data tariffs, has led to more consumers visiting mobile adult sites,...
Google is having trouble getting its ambitious digital music service off the ground in time for the crucial holiday shopping season, the New York Post reported. Major music labels are reluctant to wade into untested waters surrounding a “digital locker” service that would allow listeners to...
Universal Music chief Lucian Grainge who oversaw Universal’s operations outside the US for five years until a promotion prompted a relocation from London to Los Angeles, is aiming to overhaul the business, which posted a 9.3% fall in earnings before interest, tax and amortisation of €244m (£206m) in...
The NYU photo professor Waffa Bilal is planning to implant a camera surgically in the back of his head. A ”piercing-like attachment” will take photos every 60 seconds over the coming year and beam them to monitors at the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar....
Someone went through the effort to stich together some 360 view photos of major cities in the world. London pick alone takes 7,886 individual photos forming an 80-gigapixel panorama. 360cities.net...
Yesterday Apple announced the addition of music from the Beatles a day after posting a cryptic message on its website promising that today will be “just another day. That you’ll never forget.” The content includes all 13 remastered studio albums. There’s also a $150 downloadable digital box set...