I caught up with Alberto Montesi, the CEO of Flycell, for a chat about the mobile music market and where it might be heading. There are some very illuminating points about the US mobile music market…like the fact it is practically impossible for a third-party site to turn a profit because the labels take half the sale price and the carriers take the other other half. Not to mention the minimum price for sales being set at twice that of songs on the iTunes store…He also said that ringtones will be mostly videotones in the future, although the carriers are attempting to keep a monopoly on the sale of mobile music videos.
Future predictions include the rise of non-Top 40 ringtones and the success of the subscription model over the pay-per-download model for mobile music.
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Interview: Problems And Predictions Of Mobile Music
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I caught up with Alberto Montesi, the CEO of Flycell, for a chat about the mobile music market and where it might be heading. There are some…
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