Paper Info
Title
Evolution of the European Online News and Music Sectors: A Comparative Descriptive Study 2002 - 2004
Abstract
The digital content market-space and, in particular, the varied and rapidly evolving business models which are emerging within it, has continued its rapid growth despite the dot.com crash and has generated a significant body of theoretic literature - although there is not, as yet, an equivalent body of empirical studies in this area. In this paper we report on the final phase of a three-year, EC-funded project which investigated the European online news and online music market sectors, summarising the findings of our face-to-face interviews and contrasting them with our (published) findings from the earlier surveys we undertook of this same area. While there are some notable differences between these two market sectors (primarily the pro-active approach taken by the online news sector, compared with the reluctance demonstrated by the major players in the online music sector) we find that, overall, companies in both these sectors have changed their views of the online market-space over the three years of our study from an initially pessimistic stance to a more positive and optimistic position. This is due, to a large extent, to external factors including the development and acceptance of technology, new end devices and the increasing maturity of the competitive environment.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
Bled eConference
empirical study,business model
Field
DocType
Citations 
Crash,Advertising,Pessimism,Descriptive research,Business model,Digital content,Empirical research,Marketing,Business
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cornelia C. Krueger1355.13
Paula M. C. Swatman257789.26