Pandora is selling about a million songs a month through affiliate links to ITunes and Amazon, according to an article in Techcrunch. About 20% of those million songs are downloaded through their very successful iPhone app, which was the number one most often downloaded iPhone app for 2008. At a buck a piece, Pandora is [...]

Jacobs Media has released an updated survey of the way listeners to rock radio formats use media and technology, Tech Survey V 2009. Among the findings, listeners to rock, classic rock and alternative formats are found to be increasing their use of audio and video streaming, texting, and social networking. Nearly 100% of the respondents [...]

In an interesting move, CBS announced yesterday that it will create a separate business unit for its online music assets called The CBS Interactive Music Group. The new unit will be a part of CBS Interactive, and will incorporate all of the Company’s digital music assets including the websites and streams of more than 100 CBS [...]

Media companies that sell ads to local advertisers have lots of incentive to ramp up their online ad sales efforts, and according to a new report by Borrell Associates, some are getting pretty good at doing just that. Last year $12.6 billion was spent in online advertising by local advertisers, and while much of those [...]

The recently released Infinite Dial 2009 Study by Arbitron and Edison Research offered insight into what listeners are looking for when they listen to Internet radio. For example, when asked why they listen to online radio, monthly listeners indicated that the biggest reasons were to listen to audio they could not get elsewhere, and to [...]