Pandora’s Growing Audience and Revenue
Pandora updated its SEC filing last week to give us a glimpse of what’s been going on in 2011. Impressive growth continues to be the story. In the 3 month period ended April 30th they added 1.6 billion listener hours and another 14 million registered users. Of those 94 million registered users, 34 million are [...]
What Do Listeners Want?
I was recently asked to weigh in on radio’s future for a “crowdsourced” speech at RadioInk’s Convergence Conference. Here is what I wrote: In 5-10 years the term “radio” will encompass all audio content that is distributed as continuous programming and delivered via various technologies including broadcast, satellite, and streaming. Radio devices will receive such [...]
Pandora’s A Natural For Lipton Iced Tea Promotion
Lipton Iced Tea has teamed up with Pandora for a summer promotion that encourages listeners and tea drinkers to “Discover the Natural Side of Music.” All natural Lipton Iced Tea will sponsor a summer long promotion designed to emphasize the all natural ingredients in Lipton Iced Tea by tying in with acoustic concerts, artist videos [...]
March Webcast Metrics Data
A new Webcast Metrics ranker of measured stations for March shows that Pandora‘s audience AAS sits slightly below the half million mark, a number that is just slightly above last month’s position. Last month, when Pandora’s number showed some negative growth, we learned that there was some missing data and that would affect March and [...]
Cady Tells A Few Slacker Secrets
I attended RadioInk’s Convergence conference last week and joined a panel discussion about streaming versus broadcasting, which examined the technologies, expenses, and revenue opportunities of each of those options. As you can guess, I advocated for broadcasters to pursue streaming and develop an online audience along with strategies for monetizing that separately from their broadcast [...]
Musicians Get The Power Of Twitter
The Top Ten most followed people using Twitter are mostly musicians. Six of the top ten Twitter users with the most followers are musicians, according to Twitalyzer. Not surprisingly, Lady Gaga leads the pack at number one with more than ten million followers. She’s got lots of clout, influence and impact, according to the social media [...]
RIAA Performance Royalties Up 60% in 2010
According to 2010 year end shipment statistics reported by the RIAA, digital formats now comprise 47% of all music shipments in the US. That’s a large share, especially compared to the 9% share digital music held in 2005. Overall, the total digital music market in 2010 was $3.2 billion, a 3% increase over last year. [...]
Nielsen: Song, Album Sales Are Up
Music sales are up this year, bucking a several year annual decline. Led by strong digital downloads of albums and songs, music sales in the US are up 1.6% through May 8th. That’s according to Nielsen. Physical album sales continue to drop, but the rise in online sales is compensating for the first time. Digital [...]
Nearly 1 in 10 Smartphone Users Listen to Pandora Daily
Mobile is changing the way we do things, and smartphones are changing the way we do mobile. Smartphone ownership has tripled since 2009 – close to a third of Americans 12+ own a smartphone. What’s really interesting to note is what smartphoners are doing with their devices. According to the new Arbitron/Edison Infinite Dial Study, [...]
Google’s Cloud Streaming Music Service
Google launched its long rumored cloud based music service on tuesday, calling it Music Beta, a name that signals the tentative nature of the service. It’s likely a response to Amazon Cloud, which hit the market a few weeks ago. Google had been in talks with record labels, trying to strike a deal for its service, [...]
