Wise Buddha

Product licensing is close to our hearts at Wise Buddha Towers as I used to be a Board Director of the largest licesning agency in Europe - Copyright Promotions Group. The IMG of the entertainment business if you like. In my time I have been responsible for brands such as Star Wars, Marvel - Spiderman, […]

the news isn’t all that rosy!
Some interesting data about digital music sales in 2006 to round off recent posts about iTunes lacklustre performance. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) have announced that Global digital music sales in 2006 almost doubled to around US$2bn and said digital sales could account for a quarter of […]

I think an article by Josh Bernoff with Remy Fiorentino at Forrester talking about the challenges that iTunes faces speaks volumes for the difficulty of establishing a winning business model in the music download sector.
iTunes is the clear leader but according to this article they are facing some significant challenges - here is an excerpt […]

We’ve been on a bit of a roll recently about cell phones so thought we’d drop a few thoughts about Apple’s entry into the cell hardware market. What’s more interesting to us is that we are watching the evolution of a small niche computer manufacturer into a fully fledged consumer products business.
That aside it is […]

A study for the Pew Internet Project indicates that more than half of all net-using American teenagers use social networking sites. The study involved 935 teenagers and found 55% of American youths aged 12-17 had accounts at sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
Whilst the usage is surprsing the different uses is not. It found that […]

Way back in July 2006 we mentioned singer songwriter Mika as a talent to watch out for. Well it seems we were right as he has just been named best new talent in the BBC’s ‘Sound of 2007 Music Poll’
Artists were not eligible if they had already had a top 20 single or album in […]

Just over 20% of Americans 12 and older own an Apple product of some kind. This was one of the findings in a recent phone study conducted by Toronto-based Solutions Research Group for Apple. The upshot of the study is that Apple can increase its market footprint by 30% with the introduction of an iPod […]

The cell phone, almost unlike any other device, has changed the way we work, socialise and live our lives.
But it seems that the popularity of new fangled cell phones caught the industry by surprise, according to Sir David Brown, Chairman of Motorola, the mobile industry had no idea how successful they would become. Speaking at […]

Ladies and gentlemen – Grand Theft Auto IV
Billed as the first ‘true sequel’ since GTA III way back in 2001, this simultaneous release on PS3 and Xbox 360 uses the same breathtaking graphics engine found in Rockstar’s Table Tennis – so expect plenty of unnerving facial expressions and clothing floating in the breeze.
It looks likely […]