Making money by giving it for free: Radiohead's pre-release strategy for In Rainbows

نویسندگان

  • Marc Bourreau
  • Pinar Dogan
  • Sounman Hong
چکیده

In 2007 a prominent British alternative-rock band, Radiohead, pre-released its album In Rainbows online, and asked their fans to "pick-their-own-price" (PYOP) for the digital download of it. Radiohead’s unorthodox strategy has been considered as a game-changer for the music industry and a commercial success for the band. In this paper, we study weekly music sales between 2004-2012 in the US to test the e¤ect of the PYOP o¤er on Radiohead’s album sales. We …nd that by giving out its music for "free" Radiohead increased its digital album sales, whereas the strategy had no impact on the band’s CD album sales.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Information Economics and Policy

دوره 32  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015