{"id":6129,"date":"2011-01-28T13:21:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T13:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:26:58","slug":"death-of-the-ringtone-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/death-of-the-ringtone-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Of The Ringtone is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a very interesting article over at the Daily Rind which talks about the death of ringtones.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After two consecutive years of 50% drop in revenues, should we proclaim the death of the ringtone?<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginnings of the digital music era, ringtones have been  the majors digital income\u2019s cows, accounting for 80% of the digital  market in 2005 and 2006 in Spain which is not too far back (or maybe it  is, in this unpredictable and fast changing new market).<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon had been especially significant in the southern  European countries, although to be fair, part the reason for the huge  gap in mobile vs internet share to northern countries relied in the fact  that full-track downloads performance on south Europe was almost  ridiculous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrindblog.com\/?p=4526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the rest of the article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a very interesting article over at the Daily Rind which talks about the death of ringtones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[3576,3577,3137],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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