I recently pulled media consultant, producer, author and Vaughn Street friend Phil Cooke aside to chat about the future of large TV platforms. Here are some highlights from our interview… Given the news of long time TV legend Oprah calling it quits, is this a sign of the times with traditional TV outlets gearing up [...]
Read moreI am packing to take another trip across the country for a 2 hour meeting with a cool well-known mega-mega-church pastor. He has good doctrine, creativity galore. I am psyched but very busy. And the TV says “major storm heading our way”. I take a break with my fam to catch the warmth of the [...]
Read moreLast week I was inspired by an interview with multi-million-selling music producer, David Foster. (If you think his music is “schmaltzy”, I mostly agree. But read on anyway…) David just finished producing one of his first records, and gave a copy to his mentor Quincy Jones (multi-bazillion selling music producer). Handing him the record, David [...]
Read moreFiltering different calls that come our way for projects I find myself many times feeling like a ‘broken record’. But as we see in a national story that broke loose here in Seattle the PR mantra for years that we have said still rings true, “local media mixed with national media can make for a [...]
Read moreWhat percentage of music is bought via digital download? If you believed all the attention iTunes has received in recent years you’d think 80% of sales came through the web. But only about a third of the music bought in 2009 was downloaded. Yep, the vast majority of music is purchased on CD. Physical media [...]
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