Fee-based music or Free music with ads, your choice?

Asked to imagine a world without ad-supported music, most people said they would leave the legitimate market rather than pay for music outright.

Who gets benefit from Free music?

MySpace Music – free online music

Music lovers for sure. But Myspace is the big lucky guy who gets the most benefit from millions of free web traffics. More than one-half of users who currently take advantage of peer-to-peer sharing said they would look to services such as MySpace Music.

The free model has helped MySpace Music soar in popularity over the past year. According to Nielsen, year-over-year traffic to the site has increased more than 1,000%, making it the third-most-visited music site on the Web.

The top three music sites are: AOL Music (22,686 thousands unique visitors in June 2009), Yahoo Music (20,571 thousand), Myspace Music (12,130 thousand).

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Consumers of all income levels are cutting spending because of the economy. Where will they trim the fat first?

Strategy Analytics surveyed household decision-makers to find out.

When it came to home entertainment and communications budgets for the next year, 69% of the households said they would either keep or increase their spending on home broadband.

Other services, including pay TV and landline phones, were not so lucky. But mobile data plans were most vulnerable.

Nearly one-half of respondents (48%) said they would drop the mobile data services completely if forced to scale back, while a further 17% would move to a lower-tier plan to save money.

“These results suggest that, while American consumers consider home broadband service to be a vital utility, they see mobile data service as simply a ‘nice to have,’” said David Mercer of Strategy Analytics.

According to The Pew Internet & American Life Project, 22% of US adults cut back on mobile service in the year prior to March/April 2009 to save money. Just 9% canceled or cut back on Internet subscriptions.

Ask yourself: will you survive without using internet everyday?

Will your local business still survive tomorrow without sharing even a tiny portion of trillions of searching traffic everyday from internet?

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