One Third Of US Internet Users Have Paid For Music Online
The Pew Internet and American Life Project reports that 2/3 of Internet users have paid for digital content. Thanks to pervasive broadband penetration in the US users can quickly and easily download software, movies, television shows, music, e-books, and news articles. The survey asked more than 750 adults whether they had ever paid to access or [...]
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 [...]
Sony Will Stream Music Unlimited
Sony has announced that they will launch an online cloud based music service called Music Unlimited before the end of the year. The service will stream music to Sony’s TVs, Blu-ray players, and connected mobile devices, which will also be able to cache and store songs for offline listening as well. Sony released the news [...]
Streaming Increases Music Consumption
Streaming is a very good thing for the music industry. So says a new study conducted on behalf of streaming services company Aspiro Music. Streaming music reduces illegal filesharing activity and increases overall listening to music. The survey, conducted in Norway in June, shows that one of three Norwegians have now streamed music. A good [...]
Cool Online Music Discovery Site We Are Hunted
High on the list of cool music sites these days is We Are Hunted, a site that charts the 99 most popular songs on a daily basis by tracking what the web has to say. We Are Hunted watches blogs, social networks and forums, including Twitter, MySpace, Spotify, Last.fm and others. Headquartered in Queensland, Australia, We [...]
Nielsen: Digital Album Sales Are Up
Digital song sales for the first half of the year were off very slightly (.2%) from the same period last year, indicating that the price increase from 99 cents to $1.29 on iTunes did have some negative impact on the number of tracks sold. Meanwhile, full album sales were down as well – 11% to [...]
How Pandora Creates Value for Audience, Artists and Advertisers
Pandora is certainly one of the most listened to Internet radio services in the US and possibly beyond. Their interactive service enables listeners to build channels around their preferences, share music and listen on many mobile devices. With millions of registered listeners, they have a lot of data about those listeners – age, gender and [...]
Lots of Talk About Digital Music Clouds
Digital music buzz is all about cloud based streaming services these days. Apple bought Lala and Microsoft launched a new “entertainment vertical” for Bing that ties in full song streaming from Zune. Two weeks ago HP acquired Melodeo. And Google is supposedly readying a mobile music platform that will launch with Android 3 and include [...]
A Look At Digital Song Sales Trends
Tunecore, a company that enables artists to sell their music on digital platforms without a label, has released some interesting data on digital music behavior. Tunecore is a digital music distribution service that set out to democratize music distribution by making it simple and affordable for any artist to offer songs for sale. For a [...]
Apple: Catch Ya Lalater
Apple has announced that it will shut down on demand music streaming service Lala at the end of this month. Many believe this is the next obvious step to Apple’s launch of a web-based iTunes type service. Apple bought the service in December. Lala’s offering is/was pretty neat. Listeners can have an unlimited number of [...]
