Comments on: GuestPost: How Mobile Music Revenues Are Split In India

By: Sameer Jadhav

Sameer Jadhav — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:22:43 +0000

Hello, I am Sameer Jadhav from MUMBAI, I am working for Trupti Movies as a Market Research Manager, Recently Our company had published New Songs for MAHARASHTRA NAVNIRMAN SENA (MNS) Which is leaded by Shri Rajsaheb Thackray, Reason for sending this letter to you is that, we need to PUBLISH are songs in the form of Callertunes, We have already approached VODAFONE, AIRTEL and MTNL and we have got a good response, We have published our advertisement in Newspaper also and our songs are very much demanding, We would like to approach you also for this concern, PEOPLE OF MAHARASHTRA WILL LOVE TO KEEP THIS RINGTONE AND KEEP MARATHI FAME (ASMITA) ALIVE IN THIER HEART, Please revert back to us as soon as possible, Contact number: 9930567165 : Sameer Jadhav.

By: gautam sarkar

gautam sarkar — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:10:46 +0000

its time to charge flat 30-35% of the gross collection for content owners. I also gather the MOD, has an unofficial cap of 12% of the gross value!!!!!

By: deepak purchanda

deepak purchanda — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:25:49 +0000

I think both of the services MoD and CRBT will exist. While the operators and content aggregrators are thinking of revenue models, no one is giving any emphasis on liking and disliking of the consumer. Increasing no. of CRBT shouldn't be misunderstood in terms of liking. It feels so irritating listening to a song which I don't like and too irritating, when I want a call to get connected immediately and a user is told to press * to copy a song. I guess companies should do lot more research in understanding and building opt-in content distribution models.

By: deep

deep — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:46:30 +0000

Interesting !!! MoD-Music On Demand, seems to me that it'll flush out, with time and technology. Why wud anyone demand from an operator when they have data cable and memory card for their handsets?

I feel operator shud tie up with internet radio's so their's wider variety, choice, interest.

By: Vasetomy

Vasetomy — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:27:15 +0000

The greed of operators has killed content aggregation market. unfortunate. vas managers or heads are too unskilled to give this reasonable thought.

By: VasGuyIndia

VasGuyIndia — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:23:28 +0000

There seems to be different models being developed. Onmobile is working on a new biz model which will allow users to change CRBT any number of times. The rev share is being worked upon between T-series and PPL. Operators need to make the reporting very transparent and payout more regular. Right now the need for Hungama or any aggregator in Value chain is to fund T-series or any music label for content acquisition. They pay to labels like T or YRF in advance. The only way to make money is either lock the operator with MG or armtwist smaller operators like Aircel/Tata for larger share in content operations. The operators don;t want to take the overhead of dealing with smaller labels and I agree with Vasetomy that the VAS managers are too unskilled to understand the content biz. No one wants to look for long term biz interest. Vas mangers are too busy in jumping jobs or moving up in the corp ladder.
There is no one seasoned enough to negotiate with the largest content aggregator of the country.
Jai HO!!

By: ABC

ABC — Thu, 21 May 2009 06:48:39 +0000

Various pricing models for Song charges exist in diff operator….monthly/quarterly ……..there are content owners being paid royalties on monthly subscription too……all depends upon how well u understand the content market and ur negotiation skills….there are professionals available -:)

Operators are going to scrap off the song change charges with only crbt monthly subscription….we will all see this happen soon

By: nimish

nimish — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:00:51 +0000

Hi . i think we have missed accounting the royalty that goes to the content owner / aggregator for CRBT every 90 days . nevertheless , the rev sharing model needs a sea change .

By: Hirnya

Hirnya — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:56:57 +0000

i thinks if this will happen user will be more satisfied at least those not wanned to use service but still they are paying for that…

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:51:10 +0000

I luv this app “press # to unsubscribe”. Mr operator / onmobile – will you make this app available to me?