comScore: Targetspot Has Lots of Website Traffic
Newly released data from comScore puts Internet radio rep Targetspot’s network at the top of the “Entertainment-Radio” category for the month of February. Targetspot reps all of CBSRadio’s Internet radio sites which include AOL Radio and Launchcast as well as CBSRadio’s broadcast stations’ streams. In addition, Targetspot sells streaming audio ads on Slacker, MySpace Music [...]
NPR Digital Exec Will Keynote RAIN Summit
This week, RAIN: The Radio and Internet Newsletter announced that Kinsey Wilson, Senior VP and General Manager of NPR Digital Media will be a keynote speaker at RAIN Summit West on April 12th in Las Vegas. The RAIN Summit event in Las Vegas is an official event of the NAB Show and features a full [...]
iPhone Apps A No Brainer for Radio Stations
Paul and Fred Jacobs are research and marketing gurus and owners of Jacobs Media. Recently, in addition to making names for themselves as consultants to public radio and rock radio stations, they’ve become experts in iPhones and custom apps for smartphones. The two businesses are all about marketing. It’s still about about the audience, according [...]
Emmis NY’s New Video Show is Hot
Emmis NY’s Hot 97 is working with online video platform Gen2Media to produce an innovative reality video series airs on its website and the website. The docu-series, called The Wizards NYC, features “disc jockeys as the “wizards” behind the booth setting the rules and tone of the night, controlling the crowd through the power of [...]
Don’t Discount Digital Coupons
A recent Mediapost Research Brief highlighted strong growth in digital coupons in 2009. For the first time in two decades, coupon use grew last year, thanks largely to digital coupons, which were redeemed ten to one over newspaper coupons. Among online categories, coupons/ rewards was the fifth fastest growing Internet category last year, according to [...]
RadioTime Driving Internet Radio Into Cars
RadioTime has announced another product that will integrate it’s software into devices – this time with BMW and MINI. The MINI Connected option features a web radio function based on the RadioTime directory that leverages the iPhone’s Internet connection to tune to thousands of AM/FM and Internet-only radio stations worldwide. Drivers of MINIs will be [...]
RadioTime’s Cool New iPhone App
Finding and listening to all that Internet radio has to offer on your iPhone just got easier with the new iPhone app Spark Radio. Spark Radio is a premier radio app for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch that features cool animations and more than 10,000 global station choices. Spark Radio was built by Handcast Media and [...]
Internet Radio Audience Data for January 2010
AndoMedia has released audience data for the top 20 stations or groups measured by Webcast Metrics for the month of January. In a press release, Ando explains that listening seems to have returned to post holiday levels. There’s little change in the ranker in terms of who is on top, with Pandora dominating the top [...]
Stations Are Selling More Streaming Mobile Audio Ads
Streaming services have seen great success with their mobile applications and with the mobile ad marketplace beginning to rev up, mobile streaming ad campaigns are becoming an important element of a station’s revenue strategies. Recently Targetspot, a streaming ad technology and sales company, launched a new mobile advertising ad platform and will sell ads for Slacker’s [...]
