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 [...]
Innovating the Radio Industry Online
Last week in an interview with CNET, Michael Robertson talked about how his TiVo-for-radio service DAR.fm is good for the radio industry. DAR.fm lets subscribers record shows from a listing of 5000 stations and 20,000 programs. Those shows are then streamed or downloaded to a personalized list of devices. Robertson’s goal is to build a [...]
Songza Streams Music For Your Mood
Songza is a streaming music platform that has been getting some buzz lately. Songza is a couple of years old and got its start after Amazon bought Amie Street in 2010 and the founders of that platform created Songza in its wake. In similar ways to Pandora, Songza lets listeners create stations starting with artists. [...]
Streaming Royalties To RIAA Topped $500 Million Last Year
2011 revenues for the record industry from streaming music royalties jumped to more than half a billion dollars, according to a year end report by RIAA. Revenues from subscripton services (like Spotify, Pandora One, Rdio, MOG, Slacker) jumped 13.5% to $241 million, and Digital Performance Royalties, paid by all other streaming services (including Pandora) rose 17.2% [...]
NPR Will Use Triton’s Audience, Ad Measurement Tools
NPR Digital has teamed up with Triton Digital to offer new services to member stations. The new tools will include audience measurement and sponsor management tools that are intended to help stations grow their digital sponsorship revenue by more effectively presenting listeners with audio sponsorship messages, while at the same time providing measurement of audience [...]
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 [...]
Billboard’s Charting On-Demand Songs
Billboard, Nielsen and the National Association of Recording Merchandisers have begun incorporating data from on-demand services into their weekly reporting of the most listened to songs. In a move that acknowledges the significant numbers of songs that are now heard on streaming services, on-demand streaming data is now factored into the chart’s ranking, enhancing a [...]
