Tantalizing Tidbits

Occasionally I want to write about some items that are not worthy of their own post, or I am too lazy to write a full post. So I am going to start an occasional feature called Tantalizing Tidbits.

Today's Tantalizing Tidbits:

1. Mark Mulligan is analyst for Jupiter Research. Mark covers digital media and writes a blog. I think Mark is a good analyst, but he had this paragraph in a post a few days ago: Yet more fodder for my perennial argument (yes I’ll keep ramming it down your throats until the music industry listens!) that the labels need to aggressively drive album and multiple track purchases online. Hasn't one of the major shifts in recorded music been the market showing that they want to purchase singles, not albums? Mark is suggesting that the record companies can reverse this trend? When could an industry ever reverse such a market tidal wave? Not very sound analysis or advice. What Mark should be "ramming down the throats" of the music industry is the lesson of his earlier post; Fighting Free With Free.



2. FRUKT, "a specialist music strategy and communications agency" in the UK, just published the results of a study on TSL to recorded music:

This data is relevant to my recent post regarding music on cellular phones and yesterday's post on the VSS survey.