With 11.7 billion (yes “BILLION”!) songs downloaded on iTunes, by next year it will outrank CD sales in the USA.
Interesting enough a couple of days before the new Apple event in SF last week, HMV Japan closed its flagship store in trendy Shibuya. Why? Because of plummeting CD sales.
Apple now has 160 milion users with credit card accounts. 160 million!
The Apple event launched new iPods, a new Apple TV media player (just $99!) and iTunes 10. iTunes 10 now includes “Ping”, a Social Network for Music.
Lots more on new iTunes and Ping below.
Me? I was most excited about the new iPod Touch. At an entry price of about 1/4 that of the iPhone 4 but including FaceTime and the new retina display. That seems like “must have” to me.
This just blew my mind away – An interactive film by Chris Milk
Featuring “We Used To Wait”. Built in HTML5 with Google maps and works best on Google Chrome.
The Tweet Writer is a campaign that was created by our colleagues at JWT Melbourne for The Melbourne Writers Festival. It analyzes your tweets and publishes “your book” based on your tweets which you can then share with friends to raise awareness for the Festival. It’s simple and clever.
Looking forward to more from Dan King and his team from down under!
Today, JWT Connect launches a new website for Oriental Princess. It looks great and if you’re an OP member or purchase 500bht worth of OP products during this promotional period, you’ll stand a chance to win a Beauty First Class trip to Sixth Senses Spa! Fun!
If you are into FourSquare or Gowalla you probably appreciate social media, but the latest ipod/ipad app doesn’t just tell your friends where you are and what you are doing but what you are watching too.
Ann Mack, JWT’s Head of Intelligence and Trendspotting has just released a new report on Social Media – I steal below, with pride!
Enjoy
Iain
While social media is still in its infancy, it’s getting increasingly crowded and, as a result, increasingly confusing. But it’s exciting at the same time.
For our latest report, we spoke with a globally diverse panel of 18 professionals (both inside and outside JWT) in the social media sphere. From those conversations, we developed 12 actionable recommendations for brands, with case studies to help illustrate these ideas.
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