Warner CEO Actually Compliments iTunes Store
11:38 pm, November 14th, 2007, Pete Mortensen
I’ve been pretty hard on NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker lately for his dramatic unwillingness to pursue a digital media strategy makes any sense. As reader Imajoebob pointed out yesterday, not every big media CEO is so clueless. Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman, speaking that the Mobile Asia Congress, is a revelation. Consider the following:
“We used to fool ourselves,’ he said. “We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing was exploding. And of course we were wrong. How were we wrong? By standing still or moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find and as a result of course, consumers won.”
Or this:
“For years now, Warner Music has been offering a choice to consumers at Apple’s iTunes store the option to purchase something more than just single tracks, which constitute the mainstay of that store’s sales,” he explained. “By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variation we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We’ve sold tons of them. And with Apple’s co-operation to make discovering, accessing and purchasing these products even more seamless and intuitive, we’ll be offering many, many more of these products going forward.”
Incredible. It’s not a Zucker world after all.
Via MacUser UK
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