Comments on: iLike and MySpace In Battle of the Bands http://paidcontent.org/2007/09/12/419-draft-ilike-and-myspace-in-battle-of-the-bands/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ali http://paidcontent.org/2007/09/12/419-draft-ilike-and-myspace-in-battle-of-the-bands/#comment-53072 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:02:57 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2007/09/12/419-draft-ilike-and-myspace-in-battle-of-the-bands/#comment-53072 Joseph, you said the iLike counts are based on the "number of users putting a band in their iLike player." Just to clarify, the numbers we gave VentureBeat only counted people who have *explicitly* added artists on their iLike/Facebook profiles (like "friending" an artist on Myspace, except instead of clicking on "Add friend," you click on "iLike this artist")

The comparison is not perfect, but it's much more relevant than you implied.

In the future, we will also count fans who more passively enjoy an artist, e.g. by playing their music on their iPod/iTunes… That will boost our numbers significantly, and then it may not be an equivalent comparison.

We’ve only just begun looking at these numbers, and we don’t wanna get too excited yet. After all, VentureBeat's post was only based on a sample size of 11. iLike on Facebook is still only a few months old, and we still have a lot to learn.

Regards,
Ali Partovi
CEO, iLike

]]> By: Paul Sanders http://paidcontent.org/2007/09/12/419-draft-ilike-and-myspace-in-battle-of-the-bands/#comment-53071 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:45:11 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2007/09/12/419-draft-ilike-and-myspace-in-battle-of-the-bands/#comment-53071 Playlouder – a UK broadband ISP – is bridging the gap between social network celebrity and being able to support a professional career by putting the connectivity into a business model which pays musicians. The service is currently in beta, and is designed hopefully to enhance the value of the music that flows around the networks (data and social) rather than force an effective price of zero.

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