SNL Kagan Sees A Billion Dollar Market For Internet Radio In Ten Years
SNL Kagan and Senior Analyst Robin Flynn have produced a 2011 report on the Economics of Internet Music and Radio that’s very comprehensive and insightful. Using existing data points from RAB’s quarterly revenue reports, publicly available financials on Pandora, and research from Triton Digital and Arbitron on audience, SNL Kagan provides an excellent summary of the [...]
Arbitron Partners With AdsWizz
Arbitron has announced a deal with Euorpean based online audio ad serving and measurement company Adswizz which signals their intention to return to server based streaming audience measurement. During an earnings call, EVP/COO Sean Creamer reported that Arbitron signed an agreement with Adswizz last week. “AdsWizz will process the server-based, streaming log files exclusively for our [...]
September Webcast Metrics: Pandora, iHeartradio Gains
Triton has released Webcast Metrics listening data for stations on its platform for September. The numbers reported show Pandora’s Average Active Sessions up by about 75,000 over a full week daypart while Clear Channel’s iHeartradio gained about 8,000 in the same daypart. While Pandora’s raw number gain in AAS is much bigger than iheartradio’s, the [...]
Study: More Americans Are Listening On Connected Devices In Cars
Americans spend a lot of time listening to music in their cars. According to a new report by NPD Group, two out of three Americans say most of their music listening happens in cars. Most of that listening is still to radio and cds – but that appears to be changing. The report shows that [...]
Deezer Will Snub US, Expand Globally
On the international Internet radio front, French streaming service Deezer has big plans. They’ll launch in 100 countries in the next few weeks, but stay away from the US to avoid high royalties and stiff competition. While some may consider the US market critical to the success of an online streaming service, Chief Executive Axel [...]
Mary Meeker: The Next Big Thing Is Online Audio
Mary Meeker is widely considered to be an expert when it comes to spotting trends online. A partner at venture capitallist firm KPCB, she was named one of the ten smartest people in tech last year by Fortune magazine. She’s a popular speaker and analyst who has a knack for spotting the next big trend [...]
Abacast Offers Broadcasters Streaming, Sales Solutions
Abacast, a streaming solutions provider, is helping broadcaster partners generate significant ad revenue with the Abacast Digital Ad Sales Program and the Abacast Clarity™ Digital Radio System. Federated Media is a company that owns 15 radio stations in Indiana and launched their streaming initiative in September. Using the Abacast sales program, which provides training and [...]
Check In Radio Makes Mobile Contesting For Radio Easy
Triton Digital has introduced a new product that radio broadcasters can use to interact with their listeners. Check in Radio is an app that listeners can download to their smartphones and use to “check-in” with their favorite radio stations. It’s basically Foursquare for radio, agreed Patrick Reynolds of Triton when we spoke about it yesterday. [...]
Artists Streaming Albums Online For Free
There is a growing number of artists who are taking their music promotion directly to their fans by offering streaming access to it online. Why not – it’s a great way to give people a sample – and if they like what they hear they might buy a song, share it online, or buy a [...]
CBS Interactive Music Group Buys One of the Biggest Music Sites On the Web
CBS Interactive Music Group has purchased the top lyrics site on the web. Based in Vancouver, Metrolyrics is the third largest music site in the world in terms of traffic. Founded in 2002, it has a database of more than 700,000 songs and 48 million unique users per month. The site was built initially by a high [...]
