So. Well. Here we are on Mediatemple. Moved the blog and built a brand spanking new website to go along with it.
The new website is compatible with phones (both iphones and androids), tablets, and good old fashioned desktops like the one I am typing this on.
We’ve made the most popular things much easier to get to: specifically the tour of our shop over the last 11 years, our 38 show reports, and our own 16 rooms where we were an exhibitor at a show.
And wait, there’s more….
Sorry for the delay in the show report.
Apparently the blog here has become successful enough to attract the attention of our host, lunarpages. (Bluehost, HostGator and Lunarpages are all owned by the same company.)
So they suspended us for a day or so, for no reason except we are getting only slightly above average traffic) and have now disabled our ability to upload photos to the blog (and our ability to move the blog to a different host).
And it is not over yet. It is taking them days for them to get back to us about some basic performance guidelines that they expect us to meet. Meanwhile we languish.
I guess this is one way to reduce our load on their server, by driving our traffic away. But we are not happy about it. [understatement alert]
To be continued.
Commentary by David Sidebottom, Future Source
Consumer spend on global music subscription services such as Spotify and Deezer was estimated to be just under $2 billion in 2013
There is still significant potential for the market to grow:
Music subscriptions accounted for just 10% of the total music market spend last year, equivalent to around 25% of the digital music market
This is expected to exceed $5 billion in 2017, equivalent to 30% of global music market spend
In comparison, spend on online video subscription services such as Netflix last year was almost $5 billion
In Sweden, music streaming accounted for around 70% of total market spend in 2013, up from around 20% in 2010
Many consumers are moving away from ownership towards an access model, for both music and video
Total “pay per download” e.g. track and album downloads from services such as iTunes, declined in the USA last year, significantly down in Sweden and stabilizing in the UK.
Some consumers are changing their behaviour and this is impacting ownership, although most music buyers are still in the transition somewhere between buying CDs, buying digital tracks and albums – with the final step paying for a streaming subscription service such as Spotify
Paid-for streaming subscriptions are increasingly driven by in-home wireless audio products, such as wireless speakers (e.g. Sonos) and integrated Hi-Fi with airplay, Bluetooth and the like
Global shipments of wireless home audio products grew by over 100% in 2013 to reach 27 million units.
Futuresource’s latest Living With Digital consumer research indicates that owners of such devices are 2.5 times more likely to pay for a digital music subscription compared to the overall population
