Pandora’s Local Market Ratings Report for September
Pandora has issued a second month’s worth of its local market ratings report which shows that they continue to build audience and develop a strong audience share in large local markets. Their “listenership analysis” is calculated by Edison Research and is meant to provide a comparable AQH and AQH rating for Pandora in certain local [...]
Facebook Music’s Impact On Streaming Could Be Really Big
Facebook‘s news that it will integrate a bunch of third party streaming services into its platform has a lot of people buzzing in anticipation. Billboard said the f8 conference last week where it was announced “should be remembered as streaming services’ coming out party.” The exposure that streaming music will gain through Facebook’s 800 million [...]
RadioIO Adds To Cast Of Characters
In a stock for stock transaction, Randy Michaels and his partner Marc Chase have exchanged ownership of their “pureplay recommendation system” called Up Your Ratings (UYR) for RadioIO stock. Michaels and Chase also become strategic advisors to the company. It’s an announcement that has been in the works for a while – Michaels and RadioIO [...]
Haley’s Beef: Where’s The Cume?
The latest Webcast Metrics audience reports are out for August 2011, and the lineup of stations on the ranker remains pretty much the same. Pandora sits atop with nearly half a million session starts. Below them, CBSRadio’s network of streams has 58 million session starts and Clear Channel’s group of streams has 54 million. Citadel, [...]
Pandora Unleashes Listening
Pandora launched its new website today, and as you might imagine, it is well done. It’s easier to create stations, merge stations and share them with friends. You can also combine any stations that you want into a shuffle, which is much nicer than shuffling all your stations into one stream. You can also adjust [...]
Bloomberg’s Mobile App Is Smart
Bloomberg Radio has released a new mobile app that goes a long way in extending their brand as a global source of financial news. The Bloomberg Radio+ app gives listeners the flexibility to hear live breaking financial and business news 24-hours per day as well as download a vast on-demand library of shows and interviews they [...]
IAB’s Agency Day Was A Huge Success
I spent yesterday afternoon at the offices of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, where they were hosting a Streaming Audio for Agencies Day. This event was the culmination of lots of work by many folks in the industry who came together to produce an IAB Platform Status Report A Digital Audio Advertising Overview. For those of you [...]
Study: Listeners Love AM/FM Streams More than AM/FM Broadcasts
Americans are spending more time in their cars, time spent in cars on weekdays has increased by over an hour since 2003. Last week, Arbitron, Edison Research and Scarborough presented an update to a study from 2003 called The Road Ahead that looks at in-car listening options and adoptions. While radio continues to the the [...]
What Tim Said At RAIN Summit Chicago
RAIN Summit Chicago on tuesday was an incredible event – in my opinion the best one ever. It was very well attended by and the agenda was packed full of interesting people. I could have spent several more hours at the cocktail party connecting with them all. The highlight of the day – no slight [...]
RAIN Summit Chicago Has Arrived
I’m in Chicago preparing for tomorrow’s sold out RAIN Summit at the Chicago Hyatt Regency. I’m really excited about this event. The agenda is great – it features Tim Westergren, Founder of Pandora, as the keynote speaker. Pandora is setting the standard in the industry in terms of growing its audience and revenues and Kurt [...]
