Streaming of a White Christmas
One of the easiest ways for stations to expand their programming to please their audience is with Christmas music. Tis almost the season, listeners will be looking for their favorite versions of White Christmas and Jingle Bell Rock before you know it. AccuHolidays, the holiday music version of AccuRadio, offers an incredibly deep assortment of [...]
Podcasting’s Prince Charming
Adam Carolla is rapidly becoming the forefather of podcasting. His show was named the Best Audio Podcast of 2009 by iTunes and saw some 50 million downloads in just over a year. According to Arbitron/Edison’s Infinite Dial Study, 32 million Americans or 12% of the 12+ population have listened to a podcast in the past [...]
Spotify’s Bad Idea
Spotify, the hugely popular European on-demand streaming service that has yet to launch in the US has Sean Parker as a new investor. The notorious founder of Napster (the illegal one). Parker – the guy brought to life on the big screen by Justin Timberlake in the movie The Social Network – is out to finish [...]
A Record Breaking Quarter for Podcasts
Podcast network Wizzard Media reports that 3rd quarter was a record breaking one for them, with 445 million podcasts downloaded in the 3 months. Wizzard provides hosting, ad serving tools, measurement and monetization services to more than15,000 podcast shows. Most of that is episodic programming, so the actual number of available podcast shows for download [...]
Where Agencies Are Spending Ad Dollars
Strata, a provider of software solutions for media buyers and sellers, has released results from a 3rd quarter agency survey that provides insight into media spends by agencies. Digital dollars are increasing, but TV and cable continue to see the largest dollars spent. Cross platform advertising strategies are more common, with 47% saying they are [...]
NPR’s Latest Midas Touch
NPR, long known as a news organization, has lately been producing some outstanding digital music offerings. The latest one is their 24/7 All Songs Considered Stream. Launched to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the All Songs Considered radio show. The stream offers every song they have played on the show and more. It’s not an [...]
Lessons Learned by Streaming Startups
I read two “lessons learned” articles last week about founders of Internet radio platforms. One was a story of success, with tips on starting a digital business from Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora. The other is the perspective of failed streaming audio startup Imeem‘s founder Dalton Caldwell. Westergren’s advice struck me as much like [...]
Mobile Music Service Takes Off
Mobile music service Thumbplay has signed up over half a million trial accounts since it launched in March. Thumbplay offers unlimited music streaming for a monthly subscription fee of $9.99. The downloads are for an initial free trial period, and although Thumbplay won’t say what their conversion is, Techcrunch points out that even at just [...]
French Government Will Pay For Legal Music Downloads
In an effort to “promote cultural diversity” and combat illegal song downloads, the French government has decided to subsidize legal music downloads for 12-25 year olds. As remarkable as this sounds, it’s true. It will cost France approximately $35 million per year (25 million euros) and only French residents are eligible (darn!) French 12-25 year olds [...]
Time Spent Listening to Broadcast and Internet Radio – No Comparison
NOTE: I made a major error in this analysis, failing to see that the Ando chart represents total listening hours in a week (in millions), not average time spent listening per week. My apologies and thanks to Larry Johnson of Paragon Media Strategies for bringing it to my attention. I then looked around to see [...]
