![]() Music used to be the crucial first rung on the ladder for Amazon customers. ![]() Similarly, all three have a Content Connector strategy aimed at opening up the mass-market digital content opportunity in the home via the TV.Īmazon’s inclusion of music streaming in its Prime offering speaks volumes about the perceived importance of music as a product to the retailer. All three also recognize the importance of hardware for delivering the crucial context for the content experience. ![]() All three have a strong focus on music but all three understand clearly that the future of digital content lies in having multiple genre stores that traverse music, games, apps, video, books etc. (Google loss leads on both because its end goal is your data). Amazon and Apple have mirror opposite content strategies: Apple loss leads on content to sell devices whereas Amazon loss leads on devices to sell content. Each has a very different approach resulting in an equally diverse set of products and audiences (see figure). ![]() The future of digital content is going to be defined by the content and device strategies of three companies: Apple, Amazon and Google. Amazon’s move has received considerably less interest and hype than Apple’s acquisition of Beats but is in many respects every bit as important. Amazon Prime subscribers get free access to on demand streaming from a catalogue of 1 million tracks, the majority of which are older catalogue titles rather than frontline hits. Amazon today entered the streaming music foray with the launch of its own bundled music service.
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