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<p class="byLine">Posted by <a href="/sonal_gandhi">Sonal Gandhi</a> on the <a href="/consumer_product_strategy">Consumer Product Strategy Professionals</a> Blog on March 18, 2010</p>
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Mobile apps are all the rage these days in the music industry circles and justifiably so. Sales of traditional console-based music games have dropped significantly, but <a href="http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/is_honeymoon_over_for_music_and_video/q/id/56347/t/2">music and gaming still do make great partners</a>. And while people’s interest in paying for music is waning, paying for apps is a growing phenomenon. Universal music’s newly launched “Six Strings” music app for iphone/itouch is case in point. The question now is not whether the industry should invest in iPhone apps but what is the best way to do so.</p>
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For an answer to that question let’s examine the current most successful paid music app on iTunes - I am T-pain. “I am T-pain” allows users to record their version of the T-pain song into iTunes and auto-tune it. Here’s why I think the app is successful –</p>
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<strong>The game is engaging to all levels of gamers and music fans –</strong> Most people can sing an out-of tune song into a micro phone. Since the app is not very challenging it attracts a wider range of individuals and then the instrument simulation apps such as Six Strings would.</p>
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<strong>It allows user to share the experience and be social – </strong>Once you have auto-tuned your voice you can upload it to your Facebook, Myspace or email it to your friends. You can also check out the best auto-tuned songs that others have uploaded. Unlike other social games this app however is not really about competition and music apps don’t have to be.</p>
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<p class="byLine">Posted by <a href="/consumer_product_strategy/mark_mulligan/index.html">Mark Mulligan</a> on the <a href="/consumer_product_strategy">Consumer Product Strategy Professionals</a> Blog on March 18, 2010</p>
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At last! One of the majors finally takes the brave but long over due move to slash CD prices (<a href="http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i56ed42b9a46f855415a0ab89e3d33dde">UMG has announced it will be reducing prices to just $10 for frontline CDs in the US)</a>. There have been experiments with CD price drops for the last few years. Finally we see some marketplace movement.</p>
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The simple fact is that CDs are perceived to be too expensive for many consumers. CD price changes will bring some much needed momentum back to CD sales but – and it’s a crucial ‘but’ – it won’t halt the decline. Instead it will slow the prolonged demise. The CD is a dying music product format, but it has some life left in it because downloads haven’t generated the format replacement they were expected to. With all previous music formats the successor format was firmly in the ascendancy by the time its predecessor was in terminal decline (see chart below). So until the online marketplace gets its act together there’s a stay of execution for the CD. And the labels need this breathing space, because the core impact of online’s under performance is that the CD paradoxically remains the bedrock of revenue.</p>
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There’s still more distance to go with CD pricing though. The next crucial step is tiered products with a basic product at c $5, the standard at $10 and the deluxe at $15. We’re some way off that becoming reality, but it will - and must - happen some time in the next few years if maximum extended life is to be squeezed out of the shiny little disc.</p>
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<p>Next, I wanted to officially announce (drum roll please) that I am back leading Forrester's email marketing research. Some of you may know that I did a lot of work in email marketing until 2007 when Julie Katz took the helm, joined subsequently by David Daniels following Forrester's acquisition of Jupiter. I'm excited to be back in the space and already have a stream of research underway.</p>
<p>First up is a piece on how the recession has affected consumer attitudes toward email marketing.<br />
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*One on the integration of email and social media<br />
*Another updating our email marketing review methodology. See <a href = "http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/humanize_email_marketing/q/id/40749/t/2"> here </a> for the older version.<br />
*And then the third doing a best and worst of email marketing. This piece is also an update of some similar <a href = "http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/best_and_worst_of_email_marketing_in/q/id/39564/t/2"> research </a> we did here a few years ago.</p>
<p>What email marketing research would you like to see from us? I'd love to include your ideas in my research plan.</p>
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No one that manages a P&L will ever look back at 2009 and say "what a fun year!" eBusiness executives are certainly glad to have 2009 behind them and report to us that 2010 is not as fraught with economic concerns. We just <a href="http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/trends_2010_ebusiness_optimism_rises_from_2009/q/id/56398/t/2">published the results of our most recent survey </a>of 100 eBusiness and Channel Strategy executives and found that although overall budgets for eBusiness aren't increasing that dramatically, our respondents aren't feeling the heat to cut back like they were last year. </p>
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Even better, our survey respondents are increasing their budget for new innovation and technology. In 2010, the percentage of the online budget dedicated to new investment and innovation is expected to increase or significantly increase at 52% of firms. Hooray! It's a battle cry for all eBusiness execs to step up their games, and for senior executives in their firms to step up their commitment to and support of the channel. Spending (by our respondents) will focus on analytics and then ratings and review platforms.</p>
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Analytics have been a constant in our surveys, and ratings and reviews don't surprise us. Social media is hard for eBusiness execs to get their heads around because many social efforts clearly drive marketing objectives like brand engagement, but the impact on actual sales and conversion is fuzzier. Ratings and reviews are a clearer conversion tool for retailers in particular. My colleague <a href="http://www.forrester.com/rb/analyst/brad_strothkamp">Brad Strothkamp</a> wrote a <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/brad_strothkamp/10-03-16-usaa_proves_value_web_site_ratings_and_reviews_financial_services">blog post</a> though about the use of ratings and reviews in financial services, which is not nearly as black and white an issue. </p>
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For my current research on social media and market research, I’m interested in listening platforms (and the text analysis that’s usually packaged with them) for the purposes of mining the social Web – be it on blogs, open community sites, social networks or the like. </p>
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There’s a lively debate around the value of social media listening for market research, and there are many people willing to share their opinion. Last week, I attended a Webinar on this very subject, hosted by <a href="http://www.peanutlabs.com/peanutlabs/" target="_blank">Peanut Labs</a>, with multiple guest speakers from the industry. Here are some of the key points that market researchers should consider when assessing the need for – and effort in -- social media research. </p>
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<strong>“Process and methods need to be developed to make social media data be another source for Marketing Research” --</strong> From Jean Davis, co-founder of <a href="http://www.conversition.com/" target="_blank">Conversition</a>, and former president of Ipsos Online, North America. <em>This</em><em> means: Platforms need to be created with the market researcher in mind. They must be able to reliably sift through online conversations to sort out low-quality data; apply weighting schemes to that data reflects that true share of volume that different sources have online; and create constructs so that data from social media can be proxied to represent common measures such as five-point scales and top-two boxes. </em></p>
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Numerous conversations over the last few months with financial service firms has proven one thing to me - most are dealing with questions around social media and social commerce and yet few are sure how best to proceed. Much of what has been written thus far centers around the role social can play in the areas of marketing and brand, but there are beginning to be more stories that are surfacing around uses directly related to eBusiness on a firm's Web site.</p>
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The best case I have seen for social on a Web site came from USAA and is part of a case study I wrote with Tom Vaughn, director of social media at USAA. <a href="http://www.forrester.com/rb/Research/case_study_usaa_uses_social_media_to/q/id/55081/t/2"><strong>View Now</strong></a>.</p>
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What separates USAA's story from others we have heard? It is backed up with direct ROI and metrics in areas that drive the business - <em>conversion and sales</em>. USAA was able to prove that providing ratings and reviews using Bazaarvoice's solution drove an incremental 15 thousand plus products sales in a nine month period.</p>
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So should you rush out and add ratings and reviews to your Web site? Probably not since most financial services Web site fail to get the basics done right. But assuming you have the basics down, I would consider adding this one to your functionality roadmap.</p>
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Apple pitched the iPad at launch as <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8483654.stm" target="_blank">a third device that consumers would use alongside the PC and the phone</a>. While the iPad has genuinely innovative software and hardware, Apple has done little new to make the device easy to use in tandem with existing devices, beyond what is already in the iPhone. Consumers must sync the iPad using a cable with PC/Mac iTunes to transfer music or videos; while photos and podcasts are easiest if loaded the same way.</p>
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Apple has left too much in the hands of consumers to transfer and manage manually. For example, if a consumer wishes their video viewing position to be remembered across their devices, then they must sync first the iPad with iTunes, followed by syncing their iPhone or iPod. Contrast that with Amazon's Kindle: Whispersync maintains a person's reading position automatically between Kindle apps on PC or iPhone and Kindle eReaders.</p>
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The same issue hits multiple areas on iPad from games' scores and progress, the reading position on Apple's own eBooks, and the preferences of Apps downloaded from Apple's App Store, email, calendar and contacts.</p>
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There are workarounds for some of the above from app developers. Games built with the <a href="http://plusplus.com/" target="_blank">Plus+</a> network essentially have their own cloud service built in. Consumers may sync Calendar/email/contacts with a cloud by using a specific provider such as <a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/" target="_blank">Google apps</a>, a corporate account with Exchange, or Apple's own MobileMe. Other apps have their own app specific cloud abilities like Evernote or the iPhone/iPad Kindle app.</p>
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For iPad to really fly, preferences, usernames, passwords, and content should transfer automatically across the different devices that Apple intends consumers to use together: PC, phone, and iPad. Apple should use a consumer cloud to do it. Consumers should not have to think, all of this should just work. Tethered sync is a twentieth century product feature.</p>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/music/16jackson.html?src=me">The estate of Michael Jackson have reportedly signed a deal worth at least $250 million with Sony Music. </a> It might seem like a lot of money (heck, it is a lot of money) but this isn’t the crazy gamble on yesteryear that it might at first appear:</p>
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<a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_warner-music-kkrbertelsmann-mull-emi-bid-sources_1359625">News reports today suggest that Warner Music may be planning for buying some or all of EMI in a post-bankruptcy fire sale. </a> As a Brit I’d be particularly sad to see EMI meet such a disappointing end, but there is an unnerving sense of inevitability with current events. I’m not a financial analyst and I’m not going to attempt to comment on the likelihood of Terra Firma meeting its debt obligations. But what I do think is interesting and relevant from a strategic perspective are the questions EMI’s predicament raises about the role of record labels in the digital age.<br />
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In three days, it will be the two year anniversary of my first blog post on <a href="http://www.experiencetheblog.com" target="_blank">Experience: The Blog</a>. Originally intended to be an exploration of experiential marketing strategies, my interest and focus quickly turned to social media and how the growth of the peer-to-peer groundswell creates challenges and opportunities for marketers. It is apt to recall how my blog started as one thing and became another, because change is in the air again. I'd like to reflect on that change, put it into context and invite you to join me as I shift my blog publishing to a new address.</p>
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A month ago, <a href="http://blogs.forrester.com/augie_ray/10-02-07-my_thoughts_forrester_analysts_and_blogging" target="_blank">news broke that Forrester would be altering its blog policies</a> and analysts would shift their industry-related blogging into a new, common platform on Forrester.com. I posted at the time that I believed aggregating Forrester's thought leadership in one place made sense and that I was eager to continue blogging, sharing news and building my reputation within the new Forrester blog. </p>
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