Mobile Music Ad Dollars Are Growing
Mobile ad dollars are growing, according to eMarketer. As smartphone usage expands, revenues from the ad-supported component of mobile music, games and videos alone will grow 52.7% this year to $433.8 million. Two things are driving the increase – one being the growing audience for mobile music, gaming and video content. The second reason is that [...]
Why Broadcasters Need To Work With Lots of Streaming Portals
Last week Clear Channel announced that they continue to expand the variety and number of streaming broadcast stations offered on iHeartradio by adding a list of college radio stations. College radio is a broad category that spans everything from student-run stations featuring block programming and music, news and sports programming to professionally-run stations with specific formats. [...]
What’s Driving Internet Radio
“In the not-too-distant future, a car with a radio that receives only AM or FM will qualify as an antique.” So says a WSJ article covering a new study released by Deloitte on Generation Y’s automotive buying power and preferences. The study finds that 59% of 19 to 31 year olds place in-car connectivity as the [...]
2011 in Webcast Metrics: Some Winners, Some Losers
Triton Digital has released its monthly top 20 report for December 2011, based on its measurement of streaming platforms that subscribe to its Webcast Metrics service. I’m weary of the microscopic monthly analysis of this data, so I decided to take a look at what has happened to the general space in a year. Pandora [...]
Pandora’s Local Market Clout
Pandora released audience data today showing that they have grown their audience by 50% or more in top markets across the country in the past year. Releasing data that compares January’s audience stats with “holiday 2011″ stats, Pandora now claims to have a 1.0 rating with Adults 18-34 in top markets across the country. The [...]
Digital Song Sales and Streaming Performances Were Up in 2011
For the first time, digital music sales are larger than physical sales; accounting for 50.3% of all music purchases in 2011. Digital track sales set a new record with 1.27 billion sales in 2011; an increase of 100 million sales (8.4%) over 2010. Total digital album growth was 20% in 2011 as well, according to Nielsen Soundscan. [...]
More Music Sharing on Facebook
Facebook has a new music sharing feature that allows friends to listen to what their friends are listening to – at the same time. When connected friends see what their friends are listening to in the chat sidebar on facebook they can click to join the listening experience and hear the same song at the [...]
Lots of New Internet Radio Deals and Devices at CES
As it was last year, Internet radio in cars is a big topic at CES this week. Ford and Subaru both announced deals and devices that enable listening to Internet radio while you drive. Subaru announced a deal with Harman’s Aha platform. Aha is powering the Web-connected “fourth band” of radio, alongside AM, FM, and satellite radio. [...]
Slacker Adds Live Sports, Customizable Weather
It’s CES week in Vegas, and that means lots of Internet radio companies are announcing new deals and developments. Slacker will now offer live streaming of major professional and collegiate sports events from ESPN. The new feature began last night with the live broadcast of the BCS Championship game — No. 1 LSU versus No. 2 [...]
Arbitron’s Internet Radio Measurement Headache
In 2003 I started a company called Net Radio Sales that was designed, in large part, to offer a sales solution to streaming broadcast radio stations. Later that year I met with an Arbitron executive to discuss their decision to shut down server based streaming measurement and shift to census based measurement through comScore. I told [...]
