Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Lauren Anderson,
Found it!
It's from a DVD called Real Thing: In Performance 1964-1981:
Adding to this high-quality package is a 24-page booklet with an essay by top soul historian Rob Bowman, and a bonus feature that allows you to hear Gaye's a cappella vocal tracks for seven hits in isolation, synced to the corresponding film clip to aid watchability.
So there's more!
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Hard News: Community standards, in reply to Emma Hart,
Ms. Naughty has a post on Tumblr’s pornocalypse, from the point of view of a commercial pornographer who’s just started using Tumblr and finds it… problematic.
And she has a point – I hadn’t even thought about 2557 records. But I don’t think a Ms. Naughty Tumblr with links back to her commercial site would be a problem at all. It’d still be quite clearly hers.
What she says is a more informed take on what had occurred to me wrt the Tumblr scrap: if you drive porn out of all the good places, it will only be in the bad places.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Chris Waugh,
If I upload something I don’t have the rights to, the copyright owner gets paid anyway?
If the algorithms can identify it as belonging to a member of the Partner Program, yes. The owner then gets the choice of a takedown or the chance to claim-and-monetise. The big music companies still tend to prefer the greater level of control and better revenue of Vevo, which is a brand channel within YouTube that hosts the big-name pop videos of Universal and EMI.
It works for TV too. TVNZ generally does the claim-and-monetise thing. And I think the experience of Screentime with the "Always blow in the pie" clip was instructive4 for the production industry. They were just requesting takedowns as a matter of course -- and then suddenly realised they'd taken down something that was about to be a massive viral hit. They had to scramble to get up their own upload of the clip.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to JacksonP,
Hope that bloody cold gets gone soon.
I’m resolving to ignore it. I’ve got an invite to a Young, Gifted & Broke launch (BYO!) and then Voom tonight. And I'm going to go.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Chris Waugh,
How hard would it really be to set up an official Universal Youku channel to use to promote its music in China and share the revenue?
It appears that Youku's management has been tentatively thinking the same thing. They've just launched a revenue-share scheme that looks a bit like the YouTube partner programme, which does actually benefit artists and their labels.
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Via Murray Cammick. A Latin version of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit':
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Oh, good Lorde. Here she is again, being impossibly erudite in The Guardian:
She works with producer Joel Little whom she credits with turning her "pages and pages of something" into song form. "You know how Raymond Carver had Gordon Lish, the editor who made him what he was? I feel like Joel was that for me.
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Really good to see Selling the Dream is a finalist in the NZ Post Book Awards. It can also be voted for in the People's Choice section.
Peter's next book, with Gary Stewart, is Promoting Prosperity. I'll be runn a guest post from Peter about that next week.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Bart Janssen,
So have Global knives bought advertising here yet?
They would be welcome. But, then, why would they bother?
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Hard News: Community standards, in reply to George Darroch,
What’s clear about this is that Yahoo is tidying up Tumblr so it can be accessible to advertisers, who want clean brand associations. Coca Cola doesn’t want to be set down beside penetration close-ups, no matter how they’re curated.
But there may well be advertisers who don't mind so much But I think one of the problems with monetising Tumblr is that the use of third-party themes is going to make it really hard to sell inventory on the pages, which depending on theme don't just look different but work and occupy the screen in very different ways. Compared to Facebook, which dictates how your page looks and works and how you interact, it's going to be hard.