WMG - EMI

With WMG deciding not to bid for EMI, the Big Four label groups remain intact.

Market share of record music companies:
Sony BMG - 25.7%
Vivendi Universal - 21.2%
WMG - 13.8%
EMI - 12.8%

Apple iTunes continues to dominate digital music sales.

Recently, while doing my daily reading on 247wallst.com, I found newly inserted in-text ads. Chances are, while you hate invasive ads which hamper your web-surfing experience, user initiated online ads within the text of relevant web content are going to get you excited. This is a step further from google's text ads which show up as part of search results.



Vibrant Media is the in-text advertising leader and I can't help but wonder that they are a potential acquisition target for Google in the not-so-foreseeable-future, once they gain some traction in the content driven blogosphere.



We are slowly evolving into a world of advertising as portrayed in the futuristic interactive personalized ads in the Hollywood flick "Minority Report". 2054 is not too far away, after all!