Quick Hits: Questions about NPR’s RAD. Apple Music year-in-review app.
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: RAD and the value of podcast listener data. Get an Apple Music year-in-review with this app. Continue Reading
Month: December 2018
RAIN 2018 highlights: Research & Metrics
RAIN’s most important 2018 coverage of research and metrics in digital audio. Continue Reading
RAIN 2018 highlights: Industry Acquisitions
The online audio industry was eventful in 2018, especially on the consolidation front. Here are the top M&A events: Continue Reading
Read the Internet’s round-ups of best podcasts of 2018
Podcasts had a banner year, accumulating ever-growing audiences, ad revenues, and impact on popular culture. That also means podcasts are now subject to the annual practice of the “best of” list. Publications large and small are posting their lists of the top shows of 2018. Here, in one convenient location, are as many of those year-end round-ups as we could find. Continue Reading
Quick Hits: Festivals in the streaming era. Musical M&A trends. Behind Spotify’s direct listing.
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Music festivals in the streaming era. A year in musical mergers. Reflecting on Spotify’s listing. Continue Reading
Mariah Carey’s holiday hit takes the crown for Spotify’s one-day streaming record
Music is often closely tied to big moments in current and cultural events, and the latest record-breaker at Spotify is an example of that. Mariah Carey is the new holder of the one-day streaming record after her “All I Want for Christmas Is You” surpassed 10.8 million streams this Christmas Eve. Continue Reading
Amazon’s Echo Dot was a best-seller during the holiday shopping season
Amazon shared another set of eye-popping statistics from the holiday shopping season. The retailer reported that 2018 was a record-breaking holiday, with the most items ordered worldwide. The new iteration of the Echo Dot smart speaker was one of the best-selling products for the company. Continue Reading
Webcast Metrics in September: +8% year-over-year as Spotify widens lead
Webcast listening in September was 8% higher than the year-ago period, as Spotify widened its upward trend advantage compared to Pandora. This according to Triton Digital’s Top-20 Ranker, a monthly report based on Triton’s Webcast Metrics streaming measurement technology. Continue Reading
New podcast app Just Listen offers discovery by randomness
Podcasting has been having a banner year, and many new apps and services have emerged to cater to the growing audience. One of the latest is a project called Just Listen from Wenbin Fang, the creator of the minimal Listen Notes database. Just Listen offers an unusual take on podcast discovery. Continue Reading
Amazon Alexa is the top free app on December 26 for a second year
Christmas is a day for opening presents, which means the day after Christmas is when the recipients get to try out their new toys. Lori Lewis, a social media executive with previous stints at Cumulus Media, Westwood One, and Jacobs Media, has monitored which free apps have topped the charts on December 26 for the past four years. Continue Reading
Application process begins for the Music Modernization Act’s Mechanical Licensing Collective
The passage of the Music Modernization Act in October was hailed as a watershed moment for the industry, a big step to bring the law in line with the latest trends in how and where music consumption happens. Work has now begun to enact one of the Act’s critical measures. Continue Reading
Neil Young Archive officially launches with full entertainment subscription
The Neil Young Archive first debuted about a year ago, offering his fans a chance to access his music catalog at a high audio quality. While the site was free for the beta period, the site is now formally launching as a subscription service and app. Continue Reading