2010 Was An Excellent Year For Internet Radio
2010 was the year that Internet radio finally became a household word – although to many that word may have been “Pandora“. Pandora’s popularity on iPhone and other smartphones really took hold this year, listening became more commonplace and many other stations benefitted as well. Apple‘s introduction of iPad created more excitement for Internet radio [...]
Forrester Studies Online Behavior
Last week Forrester Research released a new study Understanding the Changing Needs of the US Online Consumer 2010. It’s a deep survey that interviewed more than 30,000 US consumers about their media habits. Highlights include: High speed Internet connections are the norm, with 91% of the population connecting online through broadband. Time spend with TV [...]
Radio’s Digital News Future
In a recent study of the way US consumers get their news, radio beat out newspapers. 34% used radio as a source of news yesterday, according to a new study by Pew Research Center for People and the Press. That beats newspaper’s 31% and ties online news which is also a source of news 34% [...]
Online Listening in the UK
Nearly a third of British adults have listened to Internet radio, according to updated research from RAJAR, the official body in charge of measuring radio audiences in the UK. 16.3 million adults have listened either to live or time shifted streamed services. RAJAR is jointly owned by the BBC and commercial radio companies. This updated information [...]
Do You Hear What I Hear
This Christmas season there are more stations streaming Christmas music than ever before. According to BRS Media there are more than 500 holiday stations available online. That number represents both pureplay/online stations as well as streaming broadcast stations. This year nearly 75% of terrestrial radio stations featuring Christmas music are streaming online, that’s up from [...]
Podcasting Growth Slows to a Crawl
70 million Americans have listened to or watched a downloaded podcast, according to a recently updated report by Edison Research: The Current State of Podcasting. That’s 23% of the population, a number that’s increased just one percent from a year ago. Awareness of podcasting is sitting steady at 45%, up just slightly from last year’s [...]
Half of All Folks Who Stream Don’t Listen to Broadcast Radio
A new report from Coleman Insights provides information on the amount of crossover there is between listening to AM/FM and listening online. About half of the streaming population in the US doesn’t listen to AM/FM radio at all. Of the 17% of the population that is streaming monthly, 48% say they don’t listen to any [...]
Shoutcast’s Mobile App for Android
In terms of understanding what a site or platform’s business model or reason for being is, Shoutcast has always puzzled me. Shoutcast is one of the largest portals to Internet radio stations in the world. Owned by AOL and powered by Nullsoft streaming software, Shoutcast is a platform that either originates or redistributes audio streams. [...]
Snapshots of Last.FM, Spotify Financials
A new financial report released by Last.fm in the UK indicates that they lost £2.84 million in 2009, which amounts to somewhere around -$4.4million. Add that number to the $280 million that CBSRADIO paid for Last.fm as a purchase price. 2009 revenues were £7.28 million, of which 74% was from ad sales, 18% from subscriptions [...]
