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.
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s over. Playing it safe is officially no longer an option. Here it is, black on white… the proof we have all been waiting for: “The most creatively-awarded advertising campaigns are 11 times more efficient at delivering business success” than their less creative counterparts.
Read the full report here and get ready for advertising as it should be!
… ask Pepsi on this film, explaining their partnership with “stickybits” to create a Universal Purpose Code.
Scan a product barcode (and with time) it will tell you as much as the company wants you to know – videos, CSR, whatever. Clever stuff.
I just downloaded the app quickly and easily (and free) on my iphone but haven’t yet found any barcodes with exciting stuff on them. Will keep searching!
If you find one, tell please tell antenna readers.
In a week’s time, Tom Peters, coauthor of “The Pursuit of Excellence” and urber-guru of Management Consulting is releasing a new book … The Little BIG Things. In it is outlines 163 ways to pursue excellence.
Here’s one of them.
Tom is great about making the complex simple, and the simple vital. Guess that is what a little BIG thing is.
I’m an Amazon addict but am often vary of some of the other, mainly spam, invites I get to buy cost-price medications from Canada, electronics from China, and Cabanza from Columbia.
Enter the name of a product you’re interested in and it will come back with all the on-line stores selling it.
At the moment this is a very USA based service, though many of the stores ship overseas and no doubt this sort of shopping agglomarizer is relevant anywhere.
Currently 500,000 stores (yes, stores not people!) are registered on thef!nd and an iPhone app exists to make shopping even easier.
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