Rock Band Network is music to record labels' ears

Despite the fact that the demand for great music never wanes, record labels have it rough these days. The cause: one part misfortune, one part foolishness.

To survive and thrive in the digital age, record labels need to think beyond their traditional business models.

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Posted 20 July 2009 09:52am by Patricio Robles with 1 comment

Video games change television consumption habits: Nielsen

What do people do when times are tough? History suggests they look for escapes. Some go to the movies, some eat candy and some indulge in sin. And some play video games.

The healthy growth in the video game market has not been dented by the recession according to Nielsen's newly-released 'State of the Video Gamer' report, which looked at console and PC video game usage in the United States for Q4 2008.

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Posted 08 April 2009 13:00pm by Patricio Robles with 0 comments

Were reports of the entertainment industry's death greatly exaggerated?

There has been a lot of talk about the decline of the traditional entertainment industry the past several years.

As a growing and maturing Internet has become a much more powerful medium for the distribution of media, traditional entertainment enterprises, from television networks to record labels, have increasingly faced new challenges that many argued threaten their survival.

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Posted 08 January 2009 16:41pm by Patricio Robles with 0 comments