Radiohead’s Publicity Stunt - Innovation or Deception?
This month’s Wired Magazine features a David Byrne interview with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke to discuss Radiohead’s wildly successful ‘free’ downloading stunt.
Since others insist on keeping this topic fresh, I’ll continue providing the counterpoint. Is Radiohead responsible for innovating the music industry business model, or merely deceiving gullible fans?
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A few weeks ago I posted about Rick Rubin’s subscriber-based vision for the music industry. But a familiar company currently using this business model is abandoning it due to plummeting revenue.
Hannah Montana, Radiohead, Virginia Tech, My Band, and the New Music Business Model
In the future, when we look back on what will soon become the next business model for the music industry, people will regard Hannah Montana as a pioneer, or maybe simply the catalyst that got things started. But if we look at things the way they are now, the signs of a coming music business revolution are as plain as the nose on her perky face.
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Rick Rubin, famous music producer and now Columbia Records exec, sat down for a long New York Times interview and basically declared the iPod obsolete.
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