8 Steps Broadcasters Can Take To Expand Their Digital Presence in 2010
Here’s my list of 8 things that broadcast stations can do to expand their digital presence for the coming year. It’s not a list of simple fixes – these are ideas that will require investment and dedicated effort. Dedicate a full time position to creating online content for your website and stream. This is not [...]
Ford Gets In Sync With Internet Radio
Ford’s been pretty excited about SYNC – it’s branded and unique in-car communications system that enables the driver to use voice commands with some of the car’s functions. Drivers have been able to access 911 as well as traffic, directions and information using a bluetooth device paired with a mobile phone. Now, having watched the [...]
Simon Fuller’s If I Can Dream A Big Deal For Clear Channel
American Idol creator Simon Fuller is no stranger to successful television shows. For his new reality show production he’ll turn to an alternative multi-media platform that includes television video site Hulu, MySpace, and Clear Channel’s broadcast and online platforms. Hulu and Clear Channel will create a ground breaking distribution partnership with MySpace building an exclusive [...]
Lessons On Alienating Your Core Customer
AT&T, faced with complaints about its coverage area, is blaming it on users that stream audio and video on their smartphones, and indicating that they may move to restrain heavy users from unlimited streaming. Last week, at UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York City, AT&T head of consumer services Ralph De La [...]
Internet Radio Listening Trends Up In UK
One third of the UK population has ever listened to Internet radio, according to a new study just released by RAJAR, the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK. That translates to 17.4 million people 15+ who have listened, and it’s a number that grew by half a million in six [...]
Making Money With Mobile Streams is a Snap
Some 30% of mobile phones are smartphones now, and that’s been a boon to streaming music services like Pandora who developed great apps for iPhone and watched them soar to the top of the most downloaded apps list. But what about the 70% of the mobile phones that aren’t smartphones, and aren’t connected to a [...]
Music Video Site Vevo Launches
Vevo, the music video site powered by Youtube launches today. The site will feature videos from three of the four major record labels – Sony, Universal and EMI. Warner Music Group is the only one not working with Vevo, although they are working with YouTube. Professionally produced music videos are the most popular content viewed on [...]
Clear Channel, Verizon Wireless Working Closely On Mobile
Clear Channel will offer a special Verizon Wireless only version of iheartradio in a new release/upgrade of the software due out by Christmas. More than 4 million people have already downloaded the iheartradio mobile app which is available for iPhone. This new release will include an application for Android and Blackberry devices. As part of [...]
Apple Buys Streaming Service Lala
Late friday the New York Times reported that Apple had acquired online streaming music service Lala. Lala is a service that allows listeners to either buy and download songs for 79 and 89 cents, or stream the songs an unlimited number of times for 10 cents. Apple obviously was not interested in the music download [...]
