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 [...]
Grooveshark Has Lots of Listeners and Lawsuits
Grooveshark, an on-demand streaming service with a large global audience, is being sued by the four big record labels. They’re the talk of the town when it’s time to discuss services that make it harder for others that follow all the rules to keep listeners happy. Grooveshark takes a bold approach to music licensing, allowing listeners [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Report: Listening to Internet Radio Shot Up 50% Last Year
Listening to Internet radio was up 50% last year, according to AccuStream Research’s updated report. Nearly 80% of that listening is to Shoutcast and Pandora. More than 40% of all listening last year was to mobile. Streaming audio ad and subscription revenues were up 64% to $465 million, with the ad spend surpassing subscription revenues [...]
Ratings Firm Sees Digital As Critical Part of Radio’s Future
Fitch Ratings, a global ratings agency that offers credit opinions, research and data, recently issued a report with guidance on the future of broadcast radio as an investment category. Highlighted in its report, ’Broadcast Radio Industry Assessment: Near-Term Declines, Digital Potential’ issued today, Fitch Ratings expects radio advertising revenue (excluding digital) to decline 1%-2% annually. Fitch says that [...]
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 [...]
Apple, Autos and Streaming
It is looking more and more like Apple is getting ready to compete in the in-car infotainment marketplace. According to an article in Jalopnik and Forbes, Apple is looking to hire automotive engineers in China, of the variety that would enable integration of Apple devices directly into car dashboards. It’s not surprising that Apple is planning [...]
Abacast Announces New Cloud Based Traffic Platform
Online radio business platform Abacast has rolled out a new, cloud based product for ad traffic management. Clarity Digital Radio System is a cloud based product that enables greater flexibility in terms of custom options for ad-insertion and trafficking of ad campaigns. “Clarity(tm) is a breakthrough release that provides our customers with the key benefits [...]
