Google’s New Music Playground
Google provided details of their Discovery music platform on a live press conference wednesday at 4pm pt. The big deal that leaked last week and was fully outlined during the presentation is that Google is integrating a music search feature into Google Search. According to Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience [...]
British Radio Groups See Digital Future
In the category of what-a-great-idea comes this: in England, the BBC (non-commercial radio) and commercial radio will join forces to set up the Radio Council, to focus specifically on radio’s digital future. Representatives will include the BBC as well as England’s three largest radio groups – Global Radio, GMG Radio, and Bauer Media, along with [...]
Flycast Spreads its Wings
Flycast is a lot more than a mobile platform for streaming Internet radio stations. According to their press release this week, deploying Internet radio content on the mobile web is just a piece of what their technology is built for. Their new ADdapt platform was built for radio and video content broadcasters, musicians, labels, sports entities [...]
Rumors About Google Music
My inbox was all about Google’s rumored new music service yesterday. Early in the day Techcrunch wrote: Google will soon launch a music service, we’ve heard from multiple sources, and the company has spent the last several weeks securing content for the launch of the service from the major music labels. One source has referred [...]
Triton’s Latest Digital Deal
This week, Triton Media Group, a company that has aggregated many digital tools that enable radio broadcasters to extend their online offerings, has announced their latest deal with Internet radio site Jelli. Jelli is a neat digital audio platform that uses crowdsourcing technology to give listeners input on what gets played on the air. In [...]
Network Radio To Spend More on Internet Radio in 2010
Online radio industry magazine Radio Business Report recently polled key network radio supervisors around the country to get their perspective on the 2010 upfront. RBR’s Carl Marcucci asked each person to discuss their ad spends on streaming/digital media as well, and those answers were very upbeat. Horizon’s Maja Mijatovic, who spends for Geico as well [...]
Internet Radio with No Cavities
Custom Channels is a company in the business of creating customized streaming channels for other businesses. One of their best known projects is that they create Christmas music channels that many broadcast stations put on their websites and sell to retailers around the holidays. They handle everything, providing streaming services, programming, and all royalties, making [...]
Turning YouTube into a Jukebox
A couple of new streaming music sites have launched recently that use YouTube, the massive video sharing site, as their source of music. Youtube has millions of songs on its site, including live shows, bootlegged copies, and stuff that’s hard to find elsewhere. In a new twist on streaming music services, TubeRadio and Muziic have [...]
