YouTube Flexes Its Music Muscle
Music recommendation services are hot – just take a look at Pandora’s exponential growth as evidence of that. Now YouTube has launched a revamped music page that showcases the most viewed music videos and managed playlists, and gives people the ability to create on-the-fly mixes. A new Musicians Wanted feature also gives unsigned artists a [...]
UK Listeners Spend Less Time with Online Audio Than US Listeners
A new release of information on digital audio listening from RAJAR, the official source for radio audience measurement in the UK, shows that Brits are not as active as consumers in the US when it comes to listening to online radio and podcasts. According to the new data, 31% of UK adults have ever listened [...]
Pandora: We have 60 Million Users
Yesterday Pandora announced that they have hit another benchmark with 60 million registered users. Wow! Last December they announced that they had hit 40 million and then in April they hit 50 million. Now, not even 3 months later they’ve added another 10 million. Pandora’s ubiquity is no doubt responsible for their amazing growth. Their [...]
UK Companies Pair Up To Give Listeners What They Want
An occasional complaint about online music services is the lack of live news and information. Two British radio companies, one a broadcasting stalwart and the other an online startup, have joined forces to offer a digital, on-demand entertainment service combined with real-time, integrated breaking news. GMG Radio will deliver regular audio bulletins to the music [...]
MP3tunes Sets Your Music Free
Michael Robertson thinks people should be able to listen to their digital music anywhere on any device. That’s exactly what MP3tunes sets out to do. Robertson, the founder of MP3tunes, is a huge advocate of cloud based music services. He’s no stranger to the vengeance that record labels have when it comes to protecting digital [...]
Nielsen: Digital Album Sales Are Up
Digital song sales for the first half of the year were off very slightly (.2%) from the same period last year, indicating that the price increase from 99 cents to $1.29 on iTunes did have some negative impact on the number of tracks sold. Meanwhile, full album sales were down as well – 11% to [...]
Enter The RAIN Internet Radio Awards Contest
RAIN – the Internet radio industry’s trade publication – recently announced the creation of RAIN Internet Radio Awards “to recognize the achievements of Internet radio’s most ambitious and innovative services.” Every Internet radio station and service is invited to enter the competition, and I strongly encourage you to do just that. Industry awards are important. [...]
How Pandora Creates Value for Audience, Artists and Advertisers
Pandora is certainly one of the most listened to Internet radio services in the US and possibly beyond. Their interactive service enables listeners to build channels around their preferences, share music and listen on many mobile devices. With millions of registered listeners, they have a lot of data about those listeners – age, gender and [...]
Lots of Talk About Digital Music Clouds
Digital music buzz is all about cloud based streaming services these days. Apple bought Lala and Microsoft launched a new “entertainment vertical” for Bing that ties in full song streaming from Zune. Two weeks ago HP acquired Melodeo. And Google is supposedly readying a mobile music platform that will launch with Android 3 and include [...]
Webcast Metrics Reports May Data
AndoMedia has released May Webcast Metrics audience data for the stations and networks that it measures. In their press release, AndoMedia states that most stations saw 1 to 2% declines in listening for the month from April stats. Actually, Clear Channel and CBSRADIO saw much greater declines than that – over 10% of their domestic [...]
