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December, 2007
For the nice review of ARC’s Keen on Media interview with Ken Hertz.
Posted: December 29th, 2007 under » Events.
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I’m in Seattle, where Amazon announced their most successful Christmas season ever. Some stats below:
On it busiest day, Dec 10, Amazon customers ordered more than 5.4 million items, which is 62.5 items per second.
– Amazon shipped more than 99 percent of orders in time to meet holiday deadlines worldwide.
– On the peak day this season, Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 3.9 million units.
– Amazon.com sold Nintendo Wii systems at approximately 17 per second when they were in stock.
– Amazon.com sold enough high-def DVD players to cover seven football fields.
– If you lined up all of the GPS units Amazon.com sold this holiday, they would make a trail from New York to Philadelphia
– Amazon.com sold enough auto wrenches to stretch all the way around the Daytona 500 track.
– Amazon.com sold enough Hannah Montana wigs to outfit the entire audience at her December 20th show in Providence, RI.
Posted: December 29th, 2007 under » Finance.
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You almost never leave meetings with your heroes without being disappointed. But I had the rare joy of having my expectations exceeded this week when I sat down to interview Chuck D for ARC. If I had to pick one voice from my generation, it would be all Chuck. I’m grateful to have gotten to ask him the questions I had from watching Def Jam get built from my dorm at NYU and then seeing “It Takes A Nation of Millions” become the Sgt Pepper of hip hop. Thanks Chuck, Walter, Lathan and Brother Malik for working with us – we’re honored.
Posted: December 15th, 2007 under » Editorial, » Media.
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And doing a bunch of other work as well. Since I last posted we launched ARC: The A&R Channel, a long-time vision of a new generation of music programming for the digital media age. We’re currently in 15,000,000 homes via Comcast and there will be plenty to say about ARC in the coming months. In the mean time, if you are a Comcast Digital subscriber please go to ON Demand/Music/ARC and check us out. Thanks.
Posted: December 15th, 2007 under » Editorial, » Media.
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