The dance-hall reggae artist Sean Paul, who records for the Warner Music Group, recently sold more copies of a synthesized digital snippet of his song "Get Busy" than CD singles of the same song.
New York hip-hop artist Pete Miser composes his tunes out of thousands of digital snippets of music, from Shostakovich to the soundtrack of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
It then filters each five-second snippet of sound to pick out audio from a TV, reduces the snippet to a digital "fingerprint," searches an Internet server for a matching fingerprint from a pre-recorded show, and, if it finds a match, displays ads, chat rooms, or other information related to that snippet on the user's computer.
A year ago that literary lion elicited a standing ovation in a banquet hall full of booksellers when he exhorted them to "defend your lonely forts" against a digital future of free book downloads and snippets of text.
That much is true, but a sender of a video snippet must have the software, and a digital video camera.
This participant, a musician, played a snippet of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" on a digital piano interface.
A digital version of PC Pro magazine, it includes more photography and podcast snippets alongside kit reviews, as well as product comparison features.
The network is introducing EyeLab, a digital production studio that will create and stream free, ad-supported short-form videos composed of snippets from its TV lineup, WSJ reports.
Your ringtone whether it was a self-composed marimba-heavy proto-moombahton banger, or a snippet of a Gary Barlow interview from This Morning, or "Point of View" by DB Boulevard was a digital calling card.
