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 [...]
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 [...]
HTC Moves Into Streaming Music With MOG
It’s all but confirmed that mobile phone company HTC will purchase on-demand streaming service MOG via their Beats Electronics high end headphone brand. Which is a very interesting play for the folks at MOG. That service, while interesting, might have been dismissed not very long ago as one that was getting sidelined by other on-demand [...]
Consumers That Stream Also Listen To FM In Cars
Nearly 40% of smartphone owners have used their device to listen to a streaming music service while in their car, according to new research by NPD Group on automotive connectivity. Devices and ways to connect them have become a serious focus for the auto industry. 79% of car owners are using a digital device in [...]
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 [...]
Internet Radios Selling Well In Auto Aftermarket
Six percent of automotive aftermarket car radios sold this year will be Internet radio capable, according to the Consumer Electronic Association. That number will increase to 14% by 2015 based on projections from the CEA. In sync with that trend, Ford will no longer put cd players in the dash of their cars, opting instead [...]
What Do Listeners Want?
I was recently asked to weigh in on radio’s future for a “crowdsourced” speech at RadioInk’s Convergence Conference. Here is what I wrote: In 5-10 years the term “radio” will encompass all audio content that is distributed as continuous programming and delivered via various technologies including broadcast, satellite, and streaming. Radio devices will receive such [...]
Sales Of Internet Radio Home Devices Projected to Rise
New info from Strategy Analytics reports that Connected Home Audio Devices sales will top $1 billion this year. Total unit sales grew by 57% in 2010 to 3.3 million. Total active, installed units was 7.4 million by the end of 2010, but there’s still plenty of room for growth in that number. The report summary [...]
Arbitron Tells Broadcasters Digital Opportunity is Big
Radio is not in decline, it’s expanding, and that represents an enormous opportunity, according to Arbitron‘s SVP Paul Krasinski. Krasinski and SVP Bill Rose presented results of their recently updated Infinite Dial Study at RAIN Summit West last week and encouraged broadcasters to recognize the opportunity that digital distribution offers. With 86% of the 12+ [...]
Blackberry’s New Radio App Offers Slacker, iheartradio and more
Blackberry has introduced a new radio app for its mobile devices that is innovative in that it’s not dedicated to a certain music service. Instead, the new app gives users easy listening access to a variety of music services and platforms. Clear Channel’s iheartradio, Slacker, and Corus stations are included in the Beta. This is [...]
