Android Takes It Up A Notch
The iPhone, which has done a lot for Internet radio by popularizing mobile streaming apps for Pandora, Flycast and other services, will be in for some stiff competition in the coming years. Leading tech research firm Gartner, Inc. predicts that by 2012, Google’s Android operating system, which currently runs on less than 2% of smartphones, [...]
Local Websites Are A Challenge, Opportunity for Stations
A new study from RTDNA (Radio Television Digital News Association) sheds light on the challenge local stations have maintaining their websites. Only 38 percent of news directors responded that they’re comfortable that their stations are on top of new technology. TV Web sites have increased the number of live newscasts and audio streaming compared to a [...]
RadioTime Ranks Country Music Listening
To celebrate Country Music Month, RadioTime.com today released its Top 19 Country Music Stations rankings, a list of the most popular country music stations among RadioTime.com users. Stations from all across the country are represented, as well as two Internet-only stations. “While country music is evolving and attracting new and younger fans, our rankings show the [...]
Spotify Offers Offline Listening
Last week Spotify, the streaming music site that’s taken Europe by storm, launched a new feature for premium subscribers allowing them to listen to their playlists offline. This really ups the ante for them, as they prepare to enter the US market later this year. As posted on their own blog, subscribers will be able [...]
Tips for Making Money with Podcasts
Social Media Site Mashable recently offered a list of successful techniques for monetizing podcast content. Here are the ideas I liked most: Podcast networks, such as Mevio, Wizzard Media and Podtrac are collecting shows, organizing them by category and selling cpm or cpa based deals. Most content sources are making a little money, although some [...]
Nielsen: More Women Visit Music Sites
More women than men are visiting music sites, according to new information from Nielsen. In August 2009, women accounted for 56.1% of traffic to music sites, which included music news or music listening sites, and the largest cell in that group was women 35-49. That demographic made up 19.2% of all the traffic to music [...]
Pandora Launches Video Platform
The fact that Pandora continues to roll out new ad platforms that offer advertisers integrated marketing opportunities is both good for them as well as the Internet radio industry. Last week, Pandora rolled out a new video ad platform, announcing that NBC and Entertainment Arts were the first advertisers. Both advertisers used targeted campaigns to [...]
