RAIN Summit Europe Will Feature Keynote By Spotify Exec
Spotify’s General Manager for Europe, Jonathan Forster, will be a keynote speaker at RAIN Summit Europe – the first-ever pan-European conference specifically focused on the fast-growing field of Internet radio – to be held in Berlin, Germany, on Friday, October 5th. As you may have read here before, RAIN Summits are the premiere educational and [...]
Listener Registration Is a Critical Streaming Strategy
At RAIN Summit West last week we introduced a new segment called POV, a familiar acronym for Point of View. In business circles, POVs are a type of presentation used to briefly define a position – often on a new or widely debated topic. We thought it would be interesting to invite leaders in the [...]
You Won’t Want To Miss RAIN Summit West
The stage is set for RAIN Summit West in Las Vegas on Sunday April 15th to be one of the best RAIN Summits ever. This year’s event will take place at LVH – Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, formerly the Las Vegas Hilton, which is adjacent to and attached to the LV Convention Center. RAIN [...]
Hanson: Things Are Moving Fast
Kurt Hanson gave his annual State of the Industry keynote presentation during RAIN Summit West earlier this month in Las Vegas, telling the record attendance that “Things are moving faster than you think!” In his nearly 30 minute presentation, Hanson, Publisher of RAIN: The Radio and Internet Newsletter, cited research and gave excellent examples of [...]
New Study: Car Streaming is Here
KnowDigital presented the results of a new study focused on Internet radio listening in cars at RAIN Summit West which revealed that Internet radio is – despite technological challenges – already in cars, and many of those who listen to Internet radio on a weekly basis have already found a way to listen in their [...]
Mason Tells RAIN’s Hanson: Digital Is Critical to CBS Radio’s Future
CBS RADIO President and CEO Dan Mason is excited about broadcasting’s digital future. In a keynote interview at RAIN Summit West last week, Mason shared his thoughts on radio’s future. During the 30 minute “fireside chat” with RAIN Publisher Kurt Hanson, Mason outlined his perspective that digital is now an essential component for success for broadcasters. Broadcasters [...]
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+ [...]
More Than One In Five Listen Weekly To Internet Radio
22% of the 12+ US population listens to Online radio weekly, according to updated Infinite Dial information presented today by Arbitron. That translates to about 57 million Americans. It’s twice the number that were listening five years ago, in fact, that number has doubled twice in ten years. Time spent listening expanded as well, average [...]
Internet Radio’s Biggest Event
RAIN Summit West 2011, the largest gathering of Internet radio people and information, will take place on Monday April 11th at the Renaissance Hotel in Las Vegas. This will be the 9th annual event, each year it gets bigger and better, growing in scope and size along with the marketplace. (As a disclaimer I’ll tell [...]
