Comments on: Amie Street Loves Prostitutes

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Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:36:43 +0000

[...] The benefits of being associated with a sex scandal [...]

By: You all crack me up

You all crack me up — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:15:23 +0000

While I usually criticize Duncan, he did a great job on this post. That being said Duncan, one of the problems with print/blog article is that it’s often difficult to convey tone and this makes it challenging to be sarcastic or funny.

By: David T

David T — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:59:18 +0000

For those interested, I interviewed the Amie Street guys shortly after the Ashley bump. You can check it out here:

My Interview with Josh and Zane from AmieStreet: http://mymediamusings.wordpres.....p;post=368

By: Egor Kunovsky

Egor Kunovsky — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:17:10 +0000

Well, as the linked article says it’s not the “record for sales volume” it the record of how fast the first 50 or so sales for one song were made. As I see on Amie Street after the song reaches the maximum price it usually would not sell in the same volumes any longer.

So, what the linked article states is “50 sales really fast” and no info on any more sales. There can be 0 sales after the song hits it’s 98 cents. This definitely does not mean *sales volume*.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:37:50 +0000

I think this pokes a hole in the Amie St. model. People are more interested in buying a single from an unsigned prostitute (who is in the public eye) than they are buying real music. Why? Marketing. Major labels sell (or sold) records b/c of marketing. W/o that marketing juggernaut behind them, it is hard for bands to even make people aware that music is out there.
We have been around the horn on this a few times, Amie St is the most promising idea out there for up and coming music monetization models. I am looking for a Zivity.com model, as well, for music.

Amie St. doesn’t make me want to die, that is a start.

By: Andrew Wise

Andrew Wise — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:26:19 +0000

Funny to see this post so long after the whole scandal has died down –

Congrats to Amie Street for signing an exclusive with Ashley, I know she completely abandoned her myspace page after it getting leaked to the press, and all of her lucrative endorsement deals seem to have fallen to the waistside, so I bet she’s glad she got hers while she could from Amie Street.

Grooveshark is the perfect platform for fan promotion, as it allows fans to find new music, and share it with those around them, all while ensuring everybody gets paid.

By: Adam Wexler

Adam Wexler — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:13:24 +0000

I agree with my namesake @21. Luckily for AmieStreet, Miss Alexandra had not shopped her music to itunes or amazon.

@7…Milking it? They sat back and watched their traffic explode! As I told one of the founders, they pulled off one of the biggest PR stunts that I could remember…and it wasn’t even a stunt!

By: smash579

smash579 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:52:26 +0000

get it right, amie street is just a vendor; it will sell whatever the public buys

reality - public loves celebrities/prostitutes

(which are really the same thing in many respects)

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:17:13 +0000

Nice one Rick.

Dunkers I hope you dont get caught smoking behind those bike sheds again hehe

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:15:44 +0000

“Some of these comments just prove that some people are seriously sad, humorless f……”

Nice one Dunkers just insult your readers.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:11:08 +0000

C’mon…. I mean really, who doesn’t love prostitutes?

But seriously… kudos to Amie St. for being in the right place at the right time.

By: Frank Church

Frank Church — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:06:59 +0000

@Alex, good on you. I think the point(s) you raise are a symptom of many companies focusing on eyeballs rather than business models. It isn’t an either/or proposition, but if you build your company with only one of them in mind, you risk alienation during your transition from eyeballs to business model. I believe they need simultaneous attention.

By: John

John — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:25:46 +0000

Good for Ashley, she has her own “groupies” now.

But how long is it gonna last? She should be looking at launching an album asap.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:44:25 +0000

When I read the headline in my RSS-reader, I knew this piece had to be from Duncan… (well, to be honest, I first had to check if I hadn’t subscribed to a feed from Valleywag or Fox News by accident…)

The moralistic, puritanical undertone when gleefully reporting about any kind of connection between some company and sex (omg! porn! hookers! titties!) is childish and annoying. It has f*** all to do with ‘humor’, unless your still in high school.

By: DA

DA — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:41:14 +0000

This is very insensitive..especially when that poor little girl is facing so much of media scrutiny..as if that wasn’t enuf

By: Alex H

Alex H — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:32:47 +0000

Brad: Just did it for you mate.

Cool that you are giving an incentive for people to do this and what a good choice for an incentive. Although I would have done it for you regardless.

By: Brad Coffey

Brad Coffey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:12:07 +0000

It’s going to be really interesting to see how much of that traffic Amie Street can keep for itself.

I’m actually a student at MIT currently and we are conducting a digital music survey to answer these sorts of questions. If you have 15 minutes to take the survey and want to make $5 worth of Amie Street credit please see the link below.

Thanks for your help!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s......GHNg_3d_3d

By: Alex H

Alex H — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:58:19 +0000

Duncan, it is a shame some people couldn’t read between the lines of your post and see where you were getting at …it really wasn’t that hard.

But to be honest, calling a reader a ‘brain dead moron’ and a ’sad, humorless f…’ is exactly the reason that blogging will always remain second to mainstream news companies. Be a little more professional mate…

On topic, Amie St is definitely the best model to come out of Web 2.0…

It is one of the only reasons I have hope for Web 2.0 . YouTube, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc are the reasons I don’t.

No foreseeable revenue models = no success. Period.

Thoughts?

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:13:40 +0000

Mark you brain dead moron: the hooker gave them a traffic spike, or do you seriously think that they would not have welcomed the boost? Would you like to see copies of the emails from Amie Street from the time this originally broke which prove how excited they were by the association (they exist BTW).

Steve, the figures relate to the end of the month which have only just become available: how new figures are old news is news to me, I was also asked to write the post by MA for the record.

Some of these comments just prove that some people are seriously sad, humorless f……

By: More Profitable than Justin.tv

More Profitable than Justin.tv — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:13:14 +0000

More like “Amie Street Loves EXPENSIVE Prostitutes”

By: steve

steve — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:58:01 +0000

Duncan,

Really, Really old news…move on….

By: Rushabh Choksi

Rushabh Choksi — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:08:38 +0000

Post about prostitutes on TechCrunch..had never imagined.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:46:28 +0000

James
you’re completely right. It was originally Amie Street loves hookers but Michael thought prostitutes worked better

By: lawrence

lawrence — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:39:02 +0000

Amie is milking the Dupree cow for all she’s got, for her 15mins of fame - ever the opportunists

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:23:30 +0000

Listen to her music: http://collect.myspace.com/mus.....2lKbMWICDt

Okay, she has a decent music. Hhhhm, she has the potential to become popular like the Paris Hilton way.