* Customers: Sales are the biggest part to keep the music industry running. So customers are acting an important role to affect the music industry either they keep purchasing or not. * Partners: As the well being of technology. Many new partners are showing up this few years, such as iTunes – A digital platform for customers to purchase music online. Besides, YouTube – A video website that can help artists to share their music all around the world in a second.
The fact that 95% of iTunes sales are singles suggests that albums are overserving customers that only desire certain songs; they aren’t willing to pay $14.99 for a full album, but will pay $0.99 per song. Piracy is another concern. Though not necessarily a substitute for album purchases, the case states that 20 songs are illegally downloaded for every 1 that is purchased; this large discrepancy suggests that some customers still value full albums, but are unwilling to pay $9.99 or more. Additionally, the recording industry is overserving consumer needs – previously, they played an important role in identifying new artists and marketing their music to fans. With the dawn of social media, there are other channels – websites, MySpace, and iTunes, to name a few – that provide consumers with the ability to search out emerging artists without the help of record companies.
However, that market is high competitive and almost commodity-like. Company A would need to consider reducing its labor force or even moving its operation to low cost-region in order to be competitive in the iPod/iPhone headphone market. Another new customer group is the people who use noise-cancellation headphones. There are limited players in this market. Also, the quality of noise cancellation headphones vary a lot and the customers are willing to pay higher price for good product.
This shows that the extent of digitalization has contributed to the growth and increasing diversity of the new media on society. Digital convergence has resulted in interactivity. Both convergence and interactivity have impacted on the growth and increasing diversity of the new media on society creating a participatory culture where media producers and media consumers interact with each other. Being able to vote for their favourite contestant and being able to call the judges on x factor has resulted in users having more control over media consumption than in the past as they are able to put forward their own opinions. In other words,
International Trade ECO 372 University of Phoenix There are many contributing factors to the stabilization and prosperity of our global market. We, the United States, are living in a time of severe trade deficit, meaning that we are importing many more goods than we are exporting. While it is nice to be able to buy foreign products at a lower price, there is risk in doing so. When we purchase foreign goods over domestic at lower prices it forces our domestic companies to sell their goods at lower prices to remain competitive. These lower prices may lend to making enough profit to sustain the current workforce.
Walmart’s low prices are a direct result of their outsourcing of jobs, which negatively affects the United States’ economy, even though may seem beneficial. The company also takes away from many smaller, local businesses, because of its lure of lower prices and benefits. Walmart’s largest principle is that it offers goods at the lowest possible price for their customers. in order to achieve this, not only does Walmart pay its workers low wages, but it also purchases its products from companies that outsource their factories and jobs. Outsourcing refers to sending jobs overseas because it is cheaper to produce the good there instead of in your home state.
Popular Culture and Social Media 22 December 2011 Racism and Popular Culture: When looking at the term popular culture one may not instantly think anything is wrong with that especially since the term is so mainstream these days; but once you have studies a little the concept of popular culture you are faced with questions like: What is popular culture? What is culture? What is the difference and why does it matter? The goal of this paper is to answer these questions and to discuss one of the underlying implications in answering those questions: Now from a marketing standpoint it makes some companies great money. Having worked in the music industry for example, if music is placed in the pop culture genre it automatically costs more to market than if it was labeled R&B, or Rock.
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