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We just launched 2 great new pages aimed at giving both listeners and DJs an easy way to review “new stuff” of interest on 8tracks. (Re-posting from company blog at http://8tracks.tumblr.com/ as not sure how to do automatically yet.) For listeners: We now offer a Tumblr-like “mix feed” that serves up, on 1 page, all […]
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There’s a subtle but important distinction between what 8tracks offers as compared with what Last.fm or Pandora provide. I enjoy both Last.fm and Pandora and have written about them in the past. Both deliver a radio-style experience that is personalized based on one’s preferences, as captured explicitly (I enter the name of an artist) or […]
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Top 20 music sites – March 2008
Compete.com launched its own ranking of top music sites, probably saving me a lot of work going forward. Helpfully, the new rankings also include the music subdomains on Yahoo, AOL, MySpace, and MSN. They’re still missing a few of the smaller sites, but I reckon they’ll add the others in due course. Upshot is that […]
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While I’m on this list-making tip, I just noticed SAI is now tracking the most valuable digital startups. This is a useful list and includes details on how the valuations were estimated. I like the fact that the list is global and features some surprises, at least for me: FB and Wikipedia top the list […]
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Based on the definition of total attention in my last post, I thought it’d be interesting to rank the top 10 music sites. To do so, I multiplied “visits” by “pages/visit” (both per compete.com). Assuming these numbers are accurate, the product is the total page views served up in a month and should give a […]
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I wrote on Wed about the notion of “total attention” as a useful metric by which to evaluate music or other websites — but didn’t explain my thinking or actually run the numbers. As so many have written over the last decade, a large and growing proportion of GDP comprises products and services that are […]
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Stickier music sites
If one assumes advertising (or other sorts of attention-based business models) will be the primary driver of revenues for online music services — or really any online services — then a total measure of attention is useful in establishing the value of the service. I’ve generally presented music sites ranked by “people” (compete.com’s version of […]
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Top 25 music sites – March 2008
I haven’t updated the music 2.0 rankings for quite a while. There’s some very cool (albeit legally questionable) new players on the horizon (Muxtape and Mixwit), and several existing sites have demonstrated serious growth (like Qloud, just acquired by Buzznet, and Jango, which seems to have come out of nowhere). This time round, I’ve dropped […]
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Tags: >> music, ilike, imeem, last.fm, music 2.0, pandora, project playlist
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I’ve been playing around with Tumblr. While I’m no doubt a bit late to the whole tumblelog concept, I’m definitely liking the casual-ness of it. No need to formal titles, ready ability to add different content types, and useful integration of feeds from other social apps (del.icio.us, twitter and, in fact, wordpress). It also looks […]
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A research report from AccuStream, published yesterday, found that total listening hours (“TLH”) for the internet radio sector in 2007 were 4,850,000,000 — a 26% increase over 2006. And I suspect this is only for the US so would exclude, for instance, a large part of the listening on Last.fm. Internet radio revenues, however, were […]
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