Digital music and ‘the recession’
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
So what’s going on? A recession? A real one or just one that gets newspapers excited? I’m too cynical to get get concerned about these issues until they really effect me or I can see other people affected.
Then I looked at my schedule for the upcoming Popkomm conference in Berlin and noticed it is still strangely open. Either I am becoming less popular or the companies I normally catch up with at this conference are not attending this year. The latter seems to be the case: lots of emails from people saying that they will not make it this time. Those are often Americans and it looks like they want to safe a few dollars by not making it over to Berlin. Will be interesting to see if the American companies that brought over 30+ people and took out huge stands the last few years will do the same next week.
When I the also read about IODA laying off people maybe it’s time not to take all this seriously. It feels like the time for investment in digital music is slowly over and people are looking for the R in ROI.
(I actually hope it’s just me getting less popular.)
