Emmis Finally Commits to a Streaming Strategy
Emmis Communications has announced that they will partner with Stream The World as a streaming platform for all of their broadcast streams. AndoMedia will provide audience measurement and ad management tools for the stations. It’s a big announcement, given that Emmis has been slow to commit to a comprehensive streaming strategy for its stations. As [...]
Listeners Choice Programming on Amazing Radio
I received a newsletter from NAB announcing the “world’s first interactive radio station”. I have to admit, this got my attention, given that I can name a good handful of Internet radio stations that have been streaming for some time now, while offering lots of interactive options to listeners. Turns out this announcement was ignoring [...]
Pandora, Brita Team Up For Dave Matthews Promotion
Always the innovator, Pandora launched a new ad product last week that gave listeners a first listen to the new Dave Matthews Band album. Dave Matthews Band’s fans were able to stream the new album, “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King,” in its entirety, a week before its commercial release, perhaps marking the first time a [...]
New Zune Will Play Internet Radio…(and HD Radio)
Microsoft’s Zune Player will add HD Radio technology. The Zune HD will feature an HD Radio Tuner, and is designed to take on Apple’s iTouch. Broadcasters quickly rallied around this announcement last week, as this will be the first HD Radio mobile device. Nevermind that the Zune will also play Internet radio (with a wifi [...]
The Future of Online Music: Labels and Services Working Together
The icy relationship between major music labels and digital music services may be thawing, according to a recent article in the New York Times. Imeem, a digital music service that lets people listen, share and discover music based on their tastes and friends’ recommendations, had 26 million people a month using their service and owed [...]
New Internet Radio Audience Data Released
New Internet radio audience data released by AndoMedia showed minimal changes from last month’s information. CBSRadio’s Internet radio platform, which includes both AOL and Yahoo’s streaming audience, as well as Last.fm and all the streaming broadcast stations, is definitely the elephant in the room with a weekly cume of over 6 million listeners. Their relatively [...]
Toyota’s Scion Marketing Includes Branded Online Station, iPhone App
Toyota’s Scion brand is not a newcomer to advertising on Internet radio – in fact, they may have been one of the first national brands to buy into online radio back in 2005. Since then they’ve advanced their presence in several ways. Last year they launched their own branded multi-channel station, and now they’re releasing [...]
