Sitting at Helsinki airport going thru my notes from the last couple of days. The Finnish music export organisation invited people from around the world to address the heart of the music business, the music, at it's new conferance Is this it?
Usually it's not that easy to interact with people you don't already know at this kind of events. But Musex was smart enough to borrow the successful format developed at the Transmission conference in Canada. At its core it's about talking to each other in the form of round ...Read More
I answered the question in the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan the other day. My answer was shorted quite a bit, so I thought it might be a good idea to present my full answer here. (Thanks to Google translate.)
Will Spotify be available in 2020?
Well, I’m not that sure. Spotify is a great service and has in many ways changed the way I, and many others with me, are listening to music – but it's far from the perfect music service.
Why? First of all, Spotify is to static. They must let the ...Read More
The traditional record company's main income has for over a hundred years been selling as many copies as possible. The move from this traditional model to a completely new model is now happening, a model in which the music company's main revenue comes from the number of plays on digital services rather than the number of sold copies.
Traditionally the business model have been relatively straightforward, the more copies sold, the more revenue. This model was initally also transferred to the digital reality through services such as iTunes Store, CDON and mobile ...Read More
It's less than a week left until the trial against The Pirate Bay, or the people behind it, starts. It will be a spectacle that will probably run through the whole Swedish judicial system and that will take time.
Piratbyrån and The Pirate Bay just launched a trial site called The Spectrial where they will write their views on what's going on and also collect feeds from around the web.
It would be great if the prosecutor and the complainants could be this transparent as well. For me the discussion around the topics involved ...Read More
It's the day after. The day after an after party DJ gig and a very inspiring Media Evolution event with Chris Anderson and 13 prominent panelists. "I'm lying in my bed, watching my...." notes "..thinking it could be the two of us". In many respects all of those new ways of thinking and doing digital business is evolving now now now, right in front of us. Making us all contributers to contemporary theorizing. That's exiting. But to me Mr Anderson is the star with smart and beautiful ways of interpreting ...Read More
