Digital Revenue Is The Bright Spot On Radio’s Revenue Report Card For 2011
Broadcast radio’s revenues from digital assets continued to outpace other categories in the 4th quarter of last year, according to a report by the Radio Advertising Bureau. Spot revenues meanwhile, shrank another 1% from a year before – a reality that is more ominious considering that the economy began to show signs of life late [...]
Now Adele Is Snubbing Spotify
Last week the world belonged to Adele, who won award after award at the Grammys. But you can’t hear 21, her award winning album, on Spotify. Adele’s pulled her music from the service. Joining Coldplay, Paul McCartney and a few others, Adele – most likely with the encouragement of her record label, is boycotting [...]
Abacast Announces New Cloud Based Traffic Platform
Online radio business platform Abacast has rolled out a new, cloud based product for ad traffic management. Clarity Digital Radio System is a cloud based product that enables greater flexibility in terms of custom options for ad-insertion and trafficking of ad campaigns. “Clarity(tm) is a breakthrough release that provides our customers with the key benefits [...]
MySpace Has A New Approach And Lots Of New Listeners
MySpace has a new music player and a new approach – and a whole bunch of new listeners, according to news this week. Since launching its new music player and adding facebook integration, the service has picked up more than a million new registered listeners. Once the most visited social and music site, MySpace lost [...]
Myxer’s Smart Advantage
One of the lesser known streaming music services announced as an integrated streaming partner with Facebook was Myxer. Until recently Myxer was primarily a leading site for ringtones and other media for mobile phones, and they were doing pretty well traffic wise with that formula, claiming more than 15 million mobile and Web unique visitors per [...]
Shazam Scored Big During Sunday’s Game
The award for best use of the Superbowl to drive traffic to its music platform goes to Shazam, the innovative mobile music tagging app that ranks among the five most downloaded apps on iTunes ever. Shazam is an app that you can use to tag songs and identify them. Hear a song and wonder what [...]
TuneIn’s New Tool Helps Stations See Traffic
TuneIn has announced a new feature to help stations on its platform analyze and better understand their digital traffic. TuneIn Amplifier is a free, simple tool that provides stations visibility into their TuneIn traffic. Stations can get daily data from TuneIn Amplifier including total tunes their station received, total unique listeners, average time spent listening and [...]
Time For Radio To Go Digital
HD Radio has made no progress in the last couple of years in terms of raising awareness, according to a recent study by Mark Kassof and Company. In fact, according to the report, ”Awareness has actually declined. In ’08, 67% had at least ‘heard of’ HD RADIO; now, 54% do. And consumers’ understanding (and misunderstanding) of [...]
Streaming For Bookworms
The streaming audio marketplace isn’t just about music – Audiobooks is a new service competing for listeners’ ears. This new service competes with Amazon owned Audible.com and offers a cloud based service that lets listeners stream, listen and sync between devices as they move around. One article I read called it “Netflix for audiobooks” and [...]
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 [...]
