Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

The end of the world wide wait

Thursday, January 5th, 2006 At many new Web sites and services, the creative energy of countless souls virtually crackles off the screen. They're cobbling together their own services from customizable Web sites and Lego-style pieces of Web software. By the millions, they're gathering ...

Motorola launches free mobile music service

Thursday, January 5th, 2006 Motorola have launched  iRadio The press release says The breakthrough Motorola iRadio solution will mobilize hundreds of commercial-free Internet radio channels and your personal music collection, letting you enjoy your favorite genres, artists, and tunes whether at home, in the car, ...

Artists First – a new distribution model for music

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 Linking the many to many, passionate fans etc. Is something that Tomi and I passionately believe in. And that also today businesses are required to rethink how they go to market otherwise they face outside players coming into their once ...

Alan speaks to OgilvyOne in Barcelona

Sunday, May 15th, 2005 Last Thursday, I gave a speech to 60+ senior members of OgilvyOne in Barcelona. Thank you OgilvyOne for inviting me. Of course, I was talking about our book Communities Dominate Brands and the converging issues that are forcing businesses ...

Chaos theory

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005 In an epic 5,500-word front-page article in the April 4 print edition of Advertising Age , columnist Bob Garfield laid out a sweeping vision of an advertising industry caroming toward chaos and disruption wrought by the digital media ...

Communities Dominate Brands

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 Communities Dominate Brands Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century Tomi T Ahonen and Alan Moore (about 250 pages, hardcover, Futuretext Ltd, March 2005) Communities Dominate Brands: Business and marketing challenges for the 21st century is a book about ...

I’d like to teach the world to sing but only if you have internet explorer

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004 From J walk blog My Coke Music To the morons who designed the My Coke Music site: Everyone doesn't use Internet Explorer. Here's what happens with Mozilla. I go to the site. I see a useless "click here to enter the site" ...

Living in a converged mobile world

Monday, November 15th, 2004 Today's Daily Telegraph unveils a music vending machine that allows people to buy and download songs in the street, at railway stations or in the pub. The kiosks, which transfer tracks to a mobile phone or personal music player for about ...

Music moves online

Monday, September 20th, 2004 September 18 2004 The Guardian Competition to slash cost of online music Reported that Stelios and easymusic had joined the fray in online downloads. The BPI estimates that online downloads have increased from 100,000 to 500,000 from the start of the year ...

Changing the rules, changing the playing field

Friday, September 17th, 2004 Peter Fisk ex-CEO of The chartered Institute of Marketing maintains that we have arrived at a point where the business models of many businesses are ripe for innovation. In a recent article by Paul Sexton of the Financial Times A ...