Music and Digital Industries
US vs. UK: Who are the Entrepreneurial Innovators?
Paul Campbell, founder of disruptive music business Amazing Media, is unimpressed by US digital creatives … and excited for British entrepreneurs.
I What 44 entrepreneurcountry
was at an impressive venue – the museum of Jewish History on the tip of Manhattan, with a great view of the Statue of Liberty. The assembled throng reflected the cream of the US digital music industry.
I was
an Englishman in New York, awaiting great things. But then the speeches started. Uh-oh.
I’d expected a Digital Music Forum to be scintillating, inspiring and scary. I thought they’d discuss the latest ideas to transform the music industry, make sense of the digital revolution and save rock & roll from the dead hand of the major labels.
I was fearful someone
would reveal a new model-busting business which meant I’d just wasted the last five years of hard graft, building Amazing into a global, disruptive brand which reinvents the music business from the ground up.
did they really talk about?
Algorithms. How to maximise the efficiency of your Twitter utilisation. The Social Graph. The best-received speech was about texting in cars. Yes, the cream of digital music, obsessed with toys and technology. Oh honestly.
It’s endemic, I think. Everyone realises the old model for the music industry is broken, sunk by the weight of a
There are reams of
US venture-backed businesses, applying new technology to the old, failing music industry model
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