Mike McCready

Here’s something you might be interested in: I’ve been silent recently due to being deep within a couple of projects. One is a new project at Platinum Blue and the other is a new web platform created by my friend Marcos Cuevas that is about to launch. It’s called Layers and it will be in private beta […]

More mainstream awareness for Platinum Blue! On May 9, 2008 Platinum Blue’s Music Xray™ was a central part of the story line on the CBS television series Numb3rs. As we’ve seen before in the NBC series Studio 60: On The Sunset Strip, Platinum Blue makes for good and interesting drama. Music Xray is not always […]

In Spain the government collects value added tax (VAT) on exchanges between retailers and consumers. It’s similar to the sales tax in that it’s an indirect tax that is collected from someone other than the person who actually bears the cost of the tax (namely the seller rather than the consumer). This is gripping […]

The Washington Post has a story today that was all the buzz within the music industry yesterday and one that has been the topic of heated debate and controversy on various industry email groups I belong to. It’s about Warner Music Group hiring Jim Griffin, (a well known industry analyst and leading thinker) to […]

Click on the below video from last Friday to see our friend, Hal Vogel on Fox Business to discuss the on-going Writers Guild of America Strike. See Hal’s bio below the video. Harold L. (Hal) Vogel is the author of Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis (Seventh Edition) and of the companion volume, […]

I’ve got some serious stuff to say on the subject and will do so when I can come up for air after the holidays. For now, take a look at this funny video I came across the other day.

I have got to get back to doing some serious posting but a friend sent me this and I thought it was funny enough to share. I can think of places I’ve worked where by following this system we’d have had a case of Bud Light every day. At least!! Anyway (and to make this […]

Adam Silverman, Platinum Blue’s VP Finance and Business Development and I went money harvesting in Greenwich, CT today. Click on the video below to see how we picked cash right off the trees. If you send us $10,000 we’ll send you Moneytree seeds (alternatively we’ll trade your cow for some magic beans). They say the […]

It looks like we’re making a little bit of headway in our education system. According to the Education Department reading and math scores among third and forth graders have made improvements over the last couple of years. In 2005 only 36% of fourth graders were proficient in math and only 31% were proficient in reading. I […]

I’m writing this on British Airways flight 487 from Barcelona to London’s Heathrow airport. This is the first time I’ve flown BA in several years. For the past few years I’ve always done this route with EasyJet but last week I’d finally had enough and vowed never to fly that sorry excuse of an airline […]