Study: More Americans Are Listening On Connected Devices In Cars
Americans spend a lot of time listening to music in their cars. According to a new report by NPD Group, two out of three Americans say most of their music listening happens in cars. Most of that listening is still to radio and cds – but that appears to be changing. The report shows that [...]
Mary Meeker: The Next Big Thing Is Online Audio
Mary Meeker is widely considered to be an expert when it comes to spotting trends online. A partner at venture capitallist firm KPCB, she was named one of the ten smartest people in tech last year by Fortune magazine. She’s a popular speaker and analyst who has a knack for spotting the next big trend [...]
Bloomberg’s Mobile App Is Smart
Bloomberg Radio has released a new mobile app that goes a long way in extending their brand as a global source of financial news. The Bloomberg Radio+ app gives listeners the flexibility to hear live breaking financial and business news 24-hours per day as well as download a vast on-demand library of shows and interviews they [...]
Study: Listeners Love AM/FM Streams More than AM/FM Broadcasts
Americans are spending more time in their cars, time spent in cars on weekdays has increased by over an hour since 2003. Last week, Arbitron, Edison Research and Scarborough presented an update to a study from 2003 called The Road Ahead that looks at in-car listening options and adoptions. While radio continues to the the [...]
Mobile Payment Marketplace Is Expanding
97.3 million Americans currently access the web using their mobile phones. That number represents nearly a third of the population and will increase to 156 million and almost half the population by 2015, according to eMarketer. Much of that usage is thanks to the expanding usage of smartphones. Nearly 30% of the population will use [...]
Pandora’s 2Q Call Impressive
Last thursday during an earnings call Pandora reported $67 million in revenues, a 117% increase over a year ago. They also reported impressive increases in listening – 1.8 billion listening hours, an increase of 125% over a year earlier. The report was the new public company’s first quarterly earnings report and it reported on earnings [...]
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 [...]
Nearly 1 in 10 Smartphone Users Listen to Pandora Daily
Mobile is changing the way we do things, and smartphones are changing the way we do mobile. Smartphone ownership has tripled since 2009 – close to a third of Americans 12+ own a smartphone. What’s really interesting to note is what smartphoners are doing with their devices. According to the new Arbitron/Edison Infinite Dial Study, [...]
Mobile is Exploding
Mary Meeker is widely considered to be an expert when it comes to spotting trends online. Formerly at Morgan Stanley, Ms Meeker is now a partner at KPCB. She spoke recently at a Google hosted Think Mobile event where she predicted that the pace of mobile growth will cause major disruptions and shifts. Mobile use [...]
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+ [...]
