FMQB highlights some of the findings about the use of iPods, DVDs, TiVo/DVRs and other on-demand media devices from the Arbitron and Edison Media Research study “Internet and Multimedia 2005: The On-Demand Consumer.”
Billboard Radio Monitor provides a preview of the latest study from Edison Media Research and Arbitron, “Internet and Multimedia 2005: The On-Demand Media Consumer.”
With a few years’ perspective, it’s easy to see that format doldrums really do correlate to a lack of product, whether it’s Top 40 in the early ‘90s or Country five years ago. But how do you explain Modern Rock’s current problems at a time when the music has steadily improved over the last few years? There’s a grudging admission now that Modern got too hip for the room, but that’s not the entire story.
Billboard Radio Monitor explains how data from Edison Media Research’s recent survey for CRS has caused some Country PDs to re-evaluate making the switch to all-Christmas music around the holidays.
Now that I’m living in the suburbs, the epicenter of my music purchases has become the electronics superstores that still command so many co-op advertising dollars from the labels. But are labels really getting what they pay for when they buy price-and-position? Depends on how much patience a consumer has.