For anyone doing business on the internet, the article below is essential reading.<\/p>\n
This paragraph made me chuckle:<\/p>\n
In September, after\u00a0Bloomberg Businessweek<\/em>\u00a0asked Viant about its content, Myspace players began showing non-placeholder videos. But if the counters embedded in the players are accurate, those placeholders are some of the most watched clips in Internet history.\u00a0Hitboy<\/em>\u00a0has amassed 690 million views. Even bigger is\u00a0Surfing<\/em>, which looks like someone butt-dialed a video: five seconds of black screen with some muffled background noise. According to the Myspace counter,\u00a0Surfing<\/em>\u00a0has been viewed 1.5 billion times. That would make it bigger than any YouTube video in history\u2014with the exception of\u00a0Gangnam Style<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, basically what the music industry has been saying for _years_ is, that music and music videos are\u00a0one of the biggest drivers of traffic on the internet. Yet, the music isn’t generating any revenue<\/a> to speak<\/a> of\u00a0anymore<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I personally suspect, that a lot of the “free culture” and “free information” and “creative common” folks around the web are either\u00a0cleverly programmed AIs<\/a> or (more likely) the cheap labor workforce<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0reposting standard thoughts and arguments in order to keep their employers properties\u00a0relevant.<\/p>\n
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An exclusive investigation into the bots that will cost companies over $6 billion this year<\/p><\/blockquote>\n