Samsung Is In the Streaming Business
Device manufacturers are buying up streaming services, creating an interesting angle in the formula for success in the online audio marketplace. In March HTC bought MOG, now Samsung has picked up mSpot and relaunched it as Music Hub, a music store, locker and streaming service for their Galaxy phone. The service launched in Germany, France, Spain, Italy [...]
RAIN Summit Europe Will Feature Keynote By Spotify Exec
Spotify’s General Manager for Europe, Jonathan Forster, will be a keynote speaker at RAIN Summit Europe – the first-ever pan-European conference specifically focused on the fast-growing field of Internet radio – to be held in Berlin, Germany, on Friday, October 5th. As you may have read here before, RAIN Summits are the premiere educational and [...]
Sirius XM Is The Elephant In the Room
Sirius XM grew their subscriber base by 8% last year – from 20.6 million subscribers to 22.3 million. First quarter 2012 revenue meanwhile grew at an even more impressive rate of 11% to $805 million. That puts them ahead of the largest broadcaster Clear Channel Radio‘s $672 million. For this year, they are forecasting revenue [...]
Spot Radio Revenue Stands Still While Digital Surges
Broadcast radio revenues grew 1% in the first quarter of 2012, with revenues derived from digital assets at the helm, according to the Radio Advertising Bureau. Digital revenues for broadcasters grew 10% during the same period, or ten times as fast as spot revenue. Network revenues grew 8% and fueled the growth as well. “While [...]
Pandora Is Second Only To Google In Monetizing Mobile
Pandora now has more than 150 million registered users, and more than two thirds of that number has listened on a smartphone or tablet. More than 70 percent of all listening to Pandora occurs on a mobile device. To that end, mobile revenues grew from $25 million in 2011 to $100 million in 2012 for [...]
Spotify’s Converting Lots of Listeners to Its Premium Service
Music industry analyst and fellow blogger Mark Mulligan posted an analysis of Spotify‘s progress in adding listeners and converting those listeners to premium subscribers recently. Spotify has enjoyed great audience growth in its first year in the US, driven in particular by its integration with facebook earlier this year. Spotify just hit 20 million users [...]
Triton’s Webcast Metrics Makes It Easier For Buyers To Compare, Invest In Streaming
Triton Digital recently announced that they will add standard radio measurement AQH, or Average Quarter Hour, to the ratings metrics offered by their Webcast Metrics server based audience measurement service. In addition to the MRC-accredited audio metric of Average Active Sessions (AAS), customers subscribing to the new Local Reports feature inside of its Webcast Metrics® product [...]
Internet Radio Ads Net High Response Rates
Targetspot has updated its yearly study of Internet radio listeners. The newly released information was first presented at RAIN Summit West by Targetspot CEO Eyal Goldwerger. Today, the company made the whitepaper more widely available on its website. The benchmark study, done by Parks Associates and with the support of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, was [...]
Grooveshark Has Lots of Listeners and Lawsuits
Grooveshark, an on-demand streaming service with a large global audience, is being sued by the four big record labels. They’re the talk of the town when it’s time to discuss services that make it harder for others that follow all the rules to keep listeners happy. Grooveshark takes a bold approach to music licensing, allowing listeners [...]
Stitcher’s Got This Election Sewed Up
Stitcher, a service that enables listeners to create personalized podcast playlists, has launched a new service designed to help listeners keep track of their politics. Stitcher Election Center lets listeners follow their favorite political candidates, commentators and topics from one central audio hub and get custom audio updates from favorite news sources like Slate, CBS Radio [...]
