Midem 2013 was interesting. Attendance was down and everyone was grumbling it was the quietest yet.
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Cost cutting is on trend today in the major and minor record labels and publishing companies – many companies spending less, both on salaries as well as on core company needs
We’ve highlighted this before as we believe that rights owners in all forms should receive their due recompense.
Hot off the press and on the flight back to LA, Tammy reflects on her last visit to SXSW in the early 00’s and how the focus has shifted.
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MIDEM – why the old ways were loud and the new ways are quiet
by Emma Griffiths Jan 28, 2013We’re hearing a lot of people saying “Midem is quiet” and that therefore less business is being done. Our take on this is that Midem is actually reasonably busy but that more QUIET business is being done.
As a software company in the music industry we often come across companies grappling with the dilemma of whether to build or buy software to solve a business issue.
Hurricane Sandy was eye opening, scary and terrible for many. We were lucky in that our New York office got off reasonably lightly all things considered. The worst it got for us was that we didn’t make it into the office together for the best part of a week and we worked from home. We […]
We love computers, we love what they can do, but they’re not human.
So the music industry is under pressure. Sure it is, the world is (still) readjusting to digital and the music industry top line is being hammered.