SiriusXM Gets Serious With Streaming
SiriusXM will introduce a suite of very interactive features to its Internet radio offering later this year, they announced yesterday. The new offering looks to be designed specifically to compete with offerings by Pandora. Other platforms, such as iHeartradio, have been moving in a similar direction as well, creating personalizable channels and interactive features. The [...]
International Streams On Triton’s Webcast Metrics
Triton Digital has released March data ranking the platforms, groups and single channel stations that subscribe to their service. Very little has changed on the domestic side — Pandora continues to grow its audience, with 1.3 million average active sessions and over 6 million session starts in March. Clear Channel’s iHeartradio is ranked second, with [...]
Coke Likes Spotify
Pandora may have a lot more listeners, but Spotify certainly has a knack for making deals that can help propel their brand to greater awareness. Last fall they were featured in a big way as a partner in facebook’s streaming music integration. Now Spotify and Coca Cola have announced a “multifaceted strategic partnership that combines [...]
Pandora Panderings in the News
It’s been a strong news week for Pandora, which is not unusual – the service has a great strategy for maintaining visibility in the media. That’s good for their brand and all of Internet radio by-the-way. They recently released some new data from a study done by The Media Audit surveying 54,000 people in Los [...]
Pandora, Spotify Discuss Ad Dollars at RAIN Summit West
Robin Flynn of SNL Kagan hosted a panel discussion called “Charting Digital Audio Ad Dollars” at RAIN Summit West on April 15th. Advertising is on the upsurge, she concludes, and cpms are solid. Pandora SVP of ad sales Steven Kritzman, Katz Online President Brian Benedik, Spotify VP of ad sales Jon Mitchell and Alexis Van [...]
Listener Registration Is a Critical Streaming Strategy
At RAIN Summit West last week we introduced a new segment called POV, a familiar acronym for Point of View. In business circles, POVs are a type of presentation used to briefly define a position – often on a new or widely debated topic. We thought it would be interesting to invite leaders in the [...]
Targetspot Study Says 42% Listen Online
Digital audio is not a trend it’s a behavior. So said Targetspot CEO Eyal Goldwerger during his research update at RAIN Summit West this week. With 42% of the population listening, listening online is a firmly established behavior – one that grew 8% since last year. Goldwerger presented a lot of great stats during his [...]
SoundExchange Collections Up 40% Last Year, Mostly Increased Payments From Pandora
The following is a guest post by Angus MacDonald, General Counsel, Live365: A few days ago, SoundExchange publicly released its Annual Report (Draft) for 2011. According to the report, SoundExchange’s 2011 collections from ALL statutory services amounted to $371.9 million. See SX’s Annual Report, p.7 (“In 2011, SoundExchange collected statutory royalties from all statutory classes [...]
Local Car Dealer Happy With Pandora
William Feinstein is the General Manager of Planet Honda in New Jersey, about 15 miles outside of NYC. He’s smarter than the average bear when it comes to analyzing his advertising, and he’s pretty excited about the results that he’s seeing from ads he’s been running on Pandora. He recently discussed this with RadioInk‘s Ed Ryan [...]
CBS RADIO Signs Up With Tunein
CBS RADIO has signed a non-exclusive deal with tunein, giving tunein listeners access to news, sports and talk content on more than 40 CBS RADIO stations. This news flies in the face of several exclusive deals recently leveraged by Clear Channel on its iHeartRadio platform, where some major broadcasters were signing away their rights to [...]
