Samsung Is In the Streaming Business
Device manufacturers are buying up streaming services, creating an interesting angle in the formula for success in the online audio marketplace. In March HTC bought MOG, now Samsung has picked up mSpot and relaunched it as Music Hub, a music store, locker and streaming service for their Galaxy phone. The service launched in Germany, France, Spain, Italy [...]
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 [...]
Sirius XM Is The Elephant In the Room
Sirius XM grew their subscriber base by 8% last year – from 20.6 million subscribers to 22.3 million. First quarter 2012 revenue meanwhile grew at an even more impressive rate of 11% to $805 million. That puts them ahead of the largest broadcaster Clear Channel Radio‘s $672 million. For this year, they are forecasting revenue [...]
Spotify’s Converting Lots of Listeners to Its Premium Service
Music industry analyst and fellow blogger Mark Mulligan posted an analysis of Spotify‘s progress in adding listeners and converting those listeners to premium subscribers recently. Spotify has enjoyed great audience growth in its first year in the US, driven in particular by its integration with facebook earlier this year. Spotify just hit 20 million users [...]
Triton’s Webcast Metrics Makes It Easier For Buyers To Compare, Invest In Streaming
Triton Digital recently announced that they will add standard radio measurement AQH, or Average Quarter Hour, to the ratings metrics offered by their Webcast Metrics server based audience measurement service. In addition to the MRC-accredited audio metric of Average Active Sessions (AAS), customers subscribing to the new Local Reports feature inside of its Webcast Metrics® product [...]
Stitcher’s Got This Election Sewed Up
Stitcher, a service that enables listeners to create personalized podcast playlists, has launched a new service designed to help listeners keep track of their politics. Stitcher Election Center lets listeners follow their favorite political candidates, commentators and topics from one central audio hub and get custom audio updates from favorite news sources like Slate, CBS Radio [...]
SiriusXM Gets Serious With Streaming
SiriusXM will introduce a suite of very interactive features to its Internet radio offering later this year, they announced yesterday. The new offering looks to be designed specifically to compete with offerings by Pandora. Other platforms, such as iHeartradio, have been moving in a similar direction as well, creating personalizable channels and interactive features. The [...]
International Streams On Triton’s Webcast Metrics
Triton Digital has released March data ranking the platforms, groups and single channel stations that subscribe to their service. Very little has changed on the domestic side — Pandora continues to grow its audience, with 1.3 million average active sessions and over 6 million session starts in March. Clear Channel’s iHeartradio is ranked second, with [...]
Coke Likes Spotify
Pandora may have a lot more listeners, but Spotify certainly has a knack for making deals that can help propel their brand to greater awareness. Last fall they were featured in a big way as a partner in facebook’s streaming music integration. Now Spotify and Coca Cola have announced a “multifaceted strategic partnership that combines [...]
Pandora Panderings in the News
It’s been a strong news week for Pandora, which is not unusual – the service has a great strategy for maintaining visibility in the media. That’s good for their brand and all of Internet radio by-the-way. They recently released some new data from a study done by The Media Audit surveying 54,000 people in Los [...]
