Internet Radios Selling Well In Auto Aftermarket
Six percent of automotive aftermarket car radios sold this year will be Internet radio capable, according to the Consumer Electronic Association. That number will increase to 14% by 2015 based on projections from the CEA. In sync with that trend, Ford will no longer put cd players in the dash of their cars, opting instead [...]
Dollars Are Flowing Into Music Startups This Year
A few weeks back Digital Music News published a chart of all the investments into Music related startups this year. The amount totaled almost $400 million dollars. The big winner was Spotify, with bragging rights to a $100 million investment. I’m not agreeing that Eventbrite is a music related startup, I think counting their $50m [...]
Song, Album Sales Are Up For 2011
2011 is turning out to be a good year for the record industry, which is seeing growth year over year sales for the first time since 2004. Digital album sales are leading the way in terms of growth – they’re up 19% over 2010. Digital track sales are up 11%. Overall music sales are up [...]
Emmis To Stream WRXP
New York broadcast rock station WRXP, which Emmis recently agreed to sell to Merlin Media, will continue to stream online and “strengthen Emmis’ presence in the digital space, as well as preserve the identity of RXP, which has become a leading alternative rock brand within New York City and national markets since the current format launched in [...]
Eye On Spotify
Last week was a busy week for Internet radio. Clear Channel shook things up at the beginning of the week with their announcement of the coming “New iHeartRadio”, later in the week Spotify launched its US based service. While I think Spotify’s entrance here is interesting, I don’t think it will have an enormous impact [...]
Spotify Launches In The United States
The Swedish service went live around 8am e.t. this morning. The service offers on-demand music at a premium no-ads price of $9.99 per month, or a service with ads for $4.99 per month. There’s also an initial free sign-up period with some limitations of the number of times a listener can hear a song for [...]
New Data Shows Targeting Is Critical For Internet Radio Ad Campaigns
Triton Digital has reported, via Inside Radio, that on average about half (51%) of a streaming broadcast station’s audience is outside its Designated Market Area (DMA). In fact, according to Triton COO Mike Agovino, quoted in the article, the larger the market, the higher the percentage of out of market listening. He says a lot [...]
Clear Channel, iHeartRadio Are In It To Win It
Clear Channel and Bob Pittman are going all out with the launch of their “New iHeartRadio.” For months Pittman has been promising a new and improved Clear Channel streaming platform. The New iHeartRadio will deliver to users the nation’s most popular broadcast radio stations as well as the ability to create custom stations with even [...]
Internet Radio Audience Data Released For May
Triton Digital has released its ranker of the top 20 stations or networks measured within its Webcast Metrics audience measurement platform for May. At the top of the ranker, Pandora picked up another 30,000 or so Average Active Sessions, some of this a result of missing data from the last several months, which had been [...]
AARP Wants Older Americans To Listen Online
AARP, with the help of Concord Music Group and Slacker, has launched a compliment of streaming music channels designed to help adults find the music they love in the digital age. AARP Internet Radio, a free music player provided by Slacker, features 18 free streaming channels of handpicked music catering to the musical tastes of Americans age [...]
