Podcasting Growth Slows to a Crawl
70 million Americans have listened to or watched a downloaded podcast, according to a recently updated report by Edison Research: The Current State of Podcasting. That’s 23% of the population, a number that’s increased just one percent from a year ago. Awareness of podcasting is sitting steady at 45%, up just slightly from last year’s [...]
Santa’s Shopping List
If you’re trying to think of a creative gift for someone this Christmas, streaming devices could be the way to go. Everyone’s buzzing about Pandora, and I find that when the topic comes up most people are interested in hearing about other ways to listen as well. Here’s a rundown of some options that are [...]
Study: More Youth Listen to Pandora than all other Internet streams combined
There was a lot of great content at the Radio Show produced by RAB and NAB last week in DC, not the least of which was the sold out RAIN Summit which took place the afternoon before the Radio Show actually started, as an official partner event of the show. You can read RAIN’s coverage [...]
Best Buy’s New Internet Radio Device
I’m a fan of Chumby – mainly because of its name. Chumbys are tabletop internet radios and a lot more – they’re actually tabletop internet ready devices, designed to be a digital photo frame and alarm clock that also allows you to listen online, check news and weather, watch videos, play games. Last year Sony [...]
Pandora: We have 60 Million Users
Yesterday Pandora announced that they have hit another benchmark with 60 million registered users. Wow! Last December they announced that they had hit 40 million and then in April they hit 50 million. Now, not even 3 months later they’ve added another 10 million. Pandora’s ubiquity is no doubt responsible for their amazing growth. Their [...]
MP3tunes Sets Your Music Free
Michael Robertson thinks people should be able to listen to their digital music anywhere on any device. That’s exactly what MP3tunes sets out to do. Robertson, the founder of MP3tunes, is a huge advocate of cloud based music services. He’s no stranger to the vengeance that record labels have when it comes to protecting digital [...]
Smartphone Users Tune In Online While Driving
About 20 percent of people with smartphones use their device to listen to music in their cars by connecting them to vehicle speakers, according to new info from J.D. Power and Associates. The 2010 U.S. Automotive Emerging Technologies Study also found that more than 40 percent of smartphone owners would like to do so in [...]
Google to Simplify Mobile Streaming
Google has purchased Simplify Media, a software company that lets you easily share your music across the web, from desktop to mobile devices. The Simplify website is there, but largely inactive – you can no longer download the software, but it does explain that Simplify allows you to access music and photos from your devices (netbook, [...]
RadioTime: Internet Radio’s Portal
As demonstration of the growing popularity of Internet radio on mobile and other connected devices, RadioTime’s online portal to Internet radio stations saw a jump of 40% in the number of times listeners tuned in during the month of March. The number jumped to 45 million – up from around 27 million sessions the month before. [...]
