by Jeff Yablon | Dec 27, 2017 | Business Change Highlights, Media
It’s the end of the year. Courtesy of Amazon.com, our end-of-year story is about the end of pirated music. It’s no wonder that a business change of this magnitude would come from Amazon. Dr. Evil’s company just keeps changing the way we buy...
by Jeff Yablon | Apr 23, 2017 | Business Change Highlights
It’s a big no-no for Pono. And while it may not be as monumental as the day the music died, The Day Pono Died is here. Neil Young must be sad. Last week, The Pono streaming service officially died. Given how misconceived an idea the Pono Player was it’s...
by Jeff Yablon | Sep 10, 2014 | Business Process, Content, Media
Kim Gjerstad and MailPoet, you’re on the back burner today. We’re bringing music back to a place called Vertigo. Apple announced a couple of things yesterday that should have everyone in the music and banking businesses very, very nervous. PayPal and...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 12, 2014 | Influency, Media
Neil Young just hit the jackpot. But I can’t quite figure out why, except to look longingly at how cool being a famous guy with a lot of fans must be. I wrote about Neil Young a couple of years ago, when he begged all but gave his fans permission to pirate his...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 17, 2013 | Content, Influency, Media
Influency is tweaked, all the time, by all kinds of things. As business and the way people do business changes, the things you can control change, too. The music business is one of the places where media and content marketing has changed the most. I’ve written...
