Category Archives: Music Industry

Gerd Leonhards presentation “Music 2.0 – The Time is NOW”

I’ll be honest, I don’t connect with many of Gerd Leonhard’s opinions on the music industry and where the whole music landscape is going but he does have some good snippets in many of his presentations. This is one of them from this presentation: “The first question is not: shall I pay money for your [...]
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The Archive

Watching this video makes you realize what the music industry came from, and to what it is now. The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.
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Music fans don’t want to just listen, they want an experience!

Last night at the Montreal Jazz Festival I met up with my business associate and friend Arnold Schwisberg, an entertainment lawyer based in Toronto. Arnie and I have worked together over the past eight years on various projects and always end up dissecting the music industry whenever we meet up. Having dinner with him overlooking [...]
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If you don’t adapt you will die

Entertainment is food. Consumers are hungry. They are open to more genres, styles, artists, actors & technologies than ever before. They have money. They willingly graze seeking out greener pastures. They want to pay what is economically fair; fair to them, after all, the customer is still the backbone of the entertainment industry. Music fans, TV/film [...]
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