Pandora Is Second Only To Google In Monetizing Mobile
Pandora now has more than 150 million registered users, and more than two thirds of that number has listened on a smartphone or tablet. More than 70 percent of all listening to Pandora occurs on a mobile device. To that end, mobile revenues grew from $25 million in 2011 to $100 million in 2012 for [...]
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 [...]
Tablet Usage Spurs Content Purchases
Tablet users are quite willing to pay for their content, according to a new study by Nielsen released this week. In fact, most tablet users have already paid for content – 62% for music, 58% for books, and 51% for movies, in the US. Those numbers are much higher than Euro tablet usage percentages – [...]
TuneIn’s Streaming Lots of SXSW Tunes
In case you’ve been reading the barage of stories about SXSW this week and wishing you were there, Tunein has the next best thing. Using their app on your mobile device you can search for “SXSW” and end up with a listing of all kinds of (primarily non-commercial) stations that are streaming the concerts. TuneIn has [...]
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 [...]
Myxer’s Smart Advantage
One of the lesser known streaming music services announced as an integrated streaming partner with Facebook was Myxer. Until recently Myxer was primarily a leading site for ringtones and other media for mobile phones, and they were doing pretty well traffic wise with that formula, claiming more than 15 million mobile and Web unique visitors per [...]
Mobile Music Ad Dollars Are Growing
Mobile ad dollars are growing, according to eMarketer. As smartphone usage expands, revenues from the ad-supported component of mobile music, games and videos alone will grow 52.7% this year to $433.8 million. Two things are driving the increase – one being the growing audience for mobile music, gaming and video content. The second reason is that [...]
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 [...]
New App Touts Tunein’s Reach with IPhone Users
In the new world of metered mobile data plans, Onavo has developed an app that is very useful in helping folks keep track of their usage and even select apps that use data efficiently. You can download their app onto your smartphone which compresses the data that your apps use. Onavo recently published data on [...]
