MySpace Has A New Approach And Lots Of New Listeners
MySpace has a new music player and a new approach – and a whole bunch of new listeners, according to news this week. Since launching its new music player and adding facebook integration, the service has picked up more than a million new registered listeners. Once the most visited social and music site, MySpace lost [...]
TuneIn’s New Tool Helps Stations See Traffic
TuneIn has announced a new feature to help stations on its platform analyze and better understand their digital traffic. TuneIn Amplifier is a free, simple tool that provides stations visibility into their TuneIn traffic. Stations can get daily data from TuneIn Amplifier including total tunes their station received, total unique listeners, average time spent listening and [...]
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 [...]
Lots of New Internet Radio Deals and Devices at CES
As it was last year, Internet radio in cars is a big topic at CES this week. Ford and Subaru both announced deals and devices that enable listening to Internet radio while you drive. Subaru announced a deal with Harman’s Aha platform. Aha is powering the Web-connected “fourth band” of radio, alongside AM, FM, and satellite radio. [...]
Arbitron’s Internet Radio Measurement Headache
In 2003 I started a company called Net Radio Sales that was designed, in large part, to offer a sales solution to streaming broadcast radio stations. Later that year I met with an Arbitron executive to discuss their decision to shut down server based streaming measurement and shift to census based measurement through comScore. I told [...]
Beyond Oblivion Loses, SoundCloud Gains In Music Startup Funding
Music related startups received lots of funding in 2011. According to Digital Music News, who kept a tally going all year, startups received $458.8 million in funding last year. That includes $100 million for Spotify, which launched in the US in July. It also includes $77 million for Beyond Oblivion, an obscure service that many [...]
Katz Drops Pandora
Katz360 has dropped Pandora from its list of clients, according to a story in Inside Radio this morning. Katz360 is owned by Katz Media Group which is owned by Clear Channel. (Inside Radio is also owned by Clear Channel.) This is the latest development in a series of events leading to an increasing divide between [...]
A Little Christmas Cheer
There are more than 425 stations streaming Christmas music this year, according to BRS Media, owner of web-radio.fm. That number includes AM/FM stations that are also streaming their Christmas programming online as well as online only stations. This year a record percentage of terrestrial AM/FM radio station are streaming online. Nearly 90% of terrestrial stations, playing [...]
Last.fm’s New Site Is a Game Changer
Not to be outdone by recent enhancements by Spotify and Pandora, Last.fm has rolled out a new interface for Last.fm Discover that is easily the best looking offering I’ve seen by a streaming station. It’s based on HTML5 and was developed in tandem with Microsoft to showcase the new capabilities that HTML5 in Internet Explorer [...]
Send Your Friends An ECard with Streaming Christmas Music From Live365
Here’s a fun and innovative idea – Live365 has launched a tool that lets anyone create a personalized Christmas e-card and send it to whomever they want, complete with Christmas music. The Live365 holiday radio card builder is available online at live365.com/cards. Senders can send to their entire list of family and friends using email or share [...]
