Showing posts with label digital music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital music. Show all posts

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Investorideas.com Launches “News of the Day” for Music Stocks and Industry

Investorideas.com Launches “News of the Day” for Food and Beverage,
Organics, Homebuilding Stocks, Toy Industry or Music Industry Stocks and other Leading Sectors


POINT ROBERTS, WA – October 23, 2008, Investorideas.com, a leading global investor and industry research resource reports the InvestorIdeas.com newswire has added new options and upgrades to the Investorideas.com Newswire for public and private companies to gain enhanced market exposure and online visibility on a day- to- day basis to investors and industry following their sector. Companies and publicly traded stocks in food and beverage, organics, homebuilding, music and the toy industry can be featured as the sector news of the day.

With markets and investor sentiment changing daily Investorideas.com new service creates an online venue targeted to global investors for Story of the day, Sector News of the Day and Audio of the day in over 30 sectors including Oil and Gas Stocks, Tech Stocks, Telecom, Digital Media, China Stocks, renewable energy/cleantech, water, mining, biotech, nanotech, coal, natural gas, Homeland Security and more.

InvestorIdeas.com currently attracts a global investor audience averaging 15,000 unique visitors per day (and growing), made up of investors, brokers, analysts, media, industry peers, institutions and government seeking news and research on over 30 sectors and global markets. Additionally, InvestorIdeas.com and its related sector portals are visible multiple financial and news sites and blogs globally via the Investorideas.com RSS feeds and syndication partners.

About the Investorideas.com Newswire:
Investor Ideas Newswire is fast becoming a valuable news source for investors and industry leaders. Readers can subscribe to the feed, companies can submit news to the feed and investment and news sites can add the RSS feed for free. Investor Ideas Newswire is indexed by Google News, My Yahoo! and other leading news sources.
Newswire RSS Feed: http://www.investorideas.com/RSS/feeds/IIMAIN.xml

Companies can submit Stock, Investing and Financial News or Industry News: Target Your News to Investors, Investment Industry and Industry Eyeballs Following Your Specific Sector (Choose up to 3 Industry Portals). Submit your news release to our Investor Ideas Newswire, RSS Feed and sector portals covering the Environment, Homeland Security, Tech, Digital Media, Renewable Energy, Greentech, Oil and Gas, Nanotech, Biotech, Gold, Mining, China, India, Middle East and other leading sectors and global markets. The Investorideas.com newswire uploader: http://www1.investorideas.com/NewsUploader/Default.aspx

New Investorideas.com Upgrade Options for news release or announcements:

Do you have a great news release or announcement that you want to gain extra eyeballs and ear-balls for? With markets and investor sentiment changing daily- Be the Story of the day!

To accommodate short term targeted news distribution programs on a budget we have now added the following upgrades to give you multiple options at an affordable price!

In addition to the basis news distribution the $75 Investorideas.com newswire service provides – companies can now choose one or more of the following:

Be the Sector news of the day- Be the featured news story of the day on the sector home page of your choice and have your news sent to our subscribers!

Be the Investorideas.com home page top news story of the day – Be directly visible to 10-15,000 visitors a day! We will also send your news as the story of the day to our subscribers following your sector!

Be the Featured Podcast - audio news story of the day – We will read your news or announcement and create an audio file and add to our Podcast RSS feeds and your audio will be the featured audio on Investorideas.com home page for the day!
News uploader: http://www1.investorideas.com/NewsUploader/Default.aspx

About InvestorIdeas.com:
"One of the first online investor resources providing in-depth information on renewable energy, greentech and water sectors." InvestorIdeas.com is a leading global investor and industry research resource portal specialized in sector investing covering over thirty industry sectors and global markets including China, India, Middle East and Australia.
The Investorideas.com Trading Exchange: http://www.investorideas.com/trade/

RSS Ad feeds:
Investing Ideas http://www.investorideas.com/rss/feeds/adfeed.xml
Trading Services http://www.investorideas.com/rss/feeds/tradingservicesadfeed.xml
Financial Services http://www.investorideas.com/rss/feeds/financialservicesadfeed.xml
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Business Services http://www.investorideas.com/rss/feeds/businessservicesadfeed.xml
Financial/Investing Products http://www.investorideas.com/rss/feeds/financial-investingproductsadfeed.xml
Disclaimer: Our sites do not make recommendations, but offer information portals to research news, articles, stock lists and recent research. Nothing on our sites should be construed as an offer or solicitation to buy or sell products or securities. We attempt to research thoroughly, but we offer no guarantees as to the accuracy of information presented. All Information relating to featured companies is sourced from public documents and/ or the company and is not the opinion of our web sites. This site is currently compensated by featured companies, news submissions and online advertising.
For more information contact:
Dawn Van Zant: 800-665-0411 - dvanzant@investorideas.com
Or cvanzant@investorideas.com

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Forrester: Digital Music To Surpass CD Sales By 2012

Forrester: Digital Music To Surpass CD Sales By 2012

Cambridge, Mass., February 19, 2008 . . . Half of all music sold in the US will be digital in 2011 and sales of digitally downloaded music will surpass physical CD sales in 2012, according to a new report by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Digital music sales will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 23 percent over the next five years, reaching $4.8 billion in revenue by 2012, but will fail to make up for the continuing steady decline in CD sales. In 2012, CD sales will be reduced to just $3.8 billion.
"This is the end of the music industry as we know it," said Forrester Research Vice President and Principal Analyst James L. McQuivey. "Media executives eager to stay afloat in this receding tide must clear the path of discovery and purchase, but only hardware and software providers can ultimately make listening to music as easy as turning on the radio."
The Forrester report is based in part on a survey of more than 5,000 consumers in the US and Canada. Among the drivers of Forrester's five-year forecast for music sales:
MP3 player adoption. The average MP3 player is only 57 percent full, suggesting that the devices are underutilized, while more of the devices are being bought by households with more than one MP3 player. Moving forward, a majority of MP3 players will be sold to households that already have one. DRM-free music. With the four big music labels now committed to eliminating digital rights management (DRM), DRM-free music will extend beyond pioneer Amazon.com to Apple iTunes and the other major online music sites. Social networks. DRM-free music enables every profile page on MySpace.com or Facebook to immediately become a music store where friends sell friends their favorite tracks. Forrester believes digital downloads are the logistical mass market for the future, satisfying all the needs that people have when it comes to music — easy to find, easy to buy, and easy to listen to, regardless of the device. On the other hand, subscription music services will show modest growth, reaching just $459 million in revenue in 2012 according to Forrester's projections, while experiments in ad-supported downloads will be silenced by the powerful combination of DRM-free music and on-demand music streaming on sites like imeem.com.
"The industry has to redefine what its product is," said McQuivey. "Music executives have spent years tracking CD sales. But the artist is the product — not just the source of it. New forms of revenue will come from unexpected sources. For example, the industry has failed to capitalize on the growing popularity of video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band. In a market where musicians are happy to sell a million copies of a CD, a video game market where titles can sell five million copies is enough to motivate even the most depressed music executive."
"The End Of The Music Industry As We Know It" is currently available to Forrester RoleView™ clients and can also be purchased directly at www.forrester.com.

About Forrester Research
Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) is an independent technology and market research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology. For more than 24 years, Forrester has been making leaders successful every day through its proprietary research, consulting, events, and peer-to-peer executive programs. For more information, visit www.forrester.com.
Contact:
Tracy SullivanSenior Public Relations SpecialistForrester Research, Inc.+1 617.613.6023press@forrester.com

Friday, July 06, 2007

Live Earth-Music to Save the Planet

Tieing in 2 major sectors on Investorideas.com- music and renewable energy-

VOLLER ENERGY SUPPLIES FUEL CELL SYSTEMS TO LIVE EARTH, WEMBLEY

A wide array of the world's top artists will perform at Wembley Stadium on7th July 2007 to help promote action to confront global climate change


Voller Energy Group PLC, the leading developer of portable fuel cell systems, is pleased to announce that the Company has been asked by the organisers of ‘Live Earth’ to supply four of its "ABC" fuel cell systems for use at the event, which takes place on 7th July.

Live Earth will use the global reach of music to engage people on a mass scale to combat our climate crisis. Live Earth will bring together more than 150 of the world's top musicians for 24-hours of music from 7 concerts across all 7 continents.

Fuel cell technology offers great benefits over the conventional generators that are normally used at music events. The Voller ABC units provide mains power output, but the only emissions are pure water. Stephen Voller, Chief Executive of Voller Energy said: "We are very proud to be supporting Live Earth, which is a tremendous event to help promote action to confront global climate change. The use of fuel cell technology at the event, demonstrates how we can all help reduce emissions. “ www.voller.com
Live Earth will bring together an audience of more than 2 billion at the concerts and through television, radio, film, and the Internet. That audience, and the proceeds from the event, will create the foundation for a new multi-year global effort to combat the climate crisis led by former Vice President Al Gore. Kevin Wall, Worldwide Executive Producer of Live 8, is producing Live Earth.
Confirmed artists so far include Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas, Bloc Party, Corinne Bailey Rae, Damien Rice, David Gray, Duran Duran, Foo Fighters, Genesis, James Blunt, John Legend, Keane, Madonna, Paolo Nutini, Razorlight, Red Hot Chili Peppers & Snow Patrol.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

music business will total $26.5 billion in 2011

eMarketer reports on the growth potential and ongoing changes in music industry-
According to the report -"CD sales will continue to decline sharply, the music industry as a whole is healthy, and growth in many other areas will more than make up for the shortfall.
Growth will come from online and mobile music, the live concert industry and the licensing of music for public performance, commercials, TV shows, films and video games, according to eMarketer's report Global Music: Tuning in to New Opportunities.
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In North America, the music business will total $26.5 billion in 2011, growing at an average annual rate of 2.8% from $23.1 billion in 2006. Recorded music revenues will remain flat as declining CD sales cancel out the sharp gains in digital sales. Music publishing and live music, however, will grow."

I have said many times- nothing compares to a live concert - and as a fan I see I am paying more and more each time - so the industry must be cashing in !

Sunday, February 04, 2007

music and the environment - something to ponder

as issues of environment and global warming are fast becoming a major part of a company's and investors consideration - a few things to think about in this interesting article on digital music and the environment and what is better - CD's or digital music


stay tuned for some insight -
" The advent of digital music and other forms of entertainment downloaded over the Internet has staggering repercussions for not only the music industry and the consumer experience, but also for the environment. "
read the full article

http://environment.about.com/od/earthtalkcolumns/a/digitalmusic.htm