Everyone now has the ability to easily create and distribute media content to a vast global audience through digital technologies. Perfect copies can be made and shared instantly at almost no cost. As more devices become connected through ubiquitous networks, the traditional roles of creator, consumer, distributor and marketer in the media ecosystem are converging. New opportunities exist for alternative models of funding creation and compensating artists in this environment where everyone can potentially become their own media company.
6. Force [4] Everyone and everything will be connected and the cost will be invisible.
7. Force [5] The web is increasingly distributed across devices and URLs. Destination sites descending. User URNs ascending.
8. Users At once: Creator Consumer Distributor Marketer Service Provider
9. Todays Ecosystem Awesome: Fast transfers Increasingly immediate/real time Collaborative Bottom Up Effortless word-of-mouth (powerful) Easy to pay Easy to monitor Any device
10. Ecosystem Frustrating Hard to get attention (for anyone though... So could be a benefit) Hard to stop the flow
11. Todays Ecosystem So: Easy to account for activity Easy to make money Easy ways to get buyers to help with promotion and distribution No storage costs More content
13. Idea [1] Selling music through Google? Made $5.19 billion Q1 this year Largest search category = entertainment? Ad-sense for music?
14. Ideas [2] Rights: the unsolved problem Opportunity to take a pro-consumer position that supports a monopoly If everyone is a media company, they have the same problem as artists Dataportability
15. Ideas [3] APRA Labs Micro-format and API for buying music Recording a transaction CC Interface API to bring clarity
16. End Phil Morle Web: www.pollenizer.com Blog: philmorle.com [email_address] Twitter: philmorle Skype: pmorle