iHeartRadio is launching in Canada this month. Plans to go north were first announced in January, when parent company iHeartMedia entered a partnership with Bell Media. Now the pair have set Oct. 10 as the official launch date, but Bell Media is making the service available now as part of a special preview period. Continue Reading
The Music Managers Forum has released a new call for transparency in the streaming music space. In the second part of its Dissecting the Digital Dollar report, the organization said that more openness is needed about deals between streaming services and labels/publishers. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Finding radio and audio in fall previews; consumer data in the music industry; finding potential breakouts in Pandora data. Continue Reading
Spanish-language specialist SBS has added video to its streaming app LaMusica. The bilingual and bicultural app, which previously focused only on music, has now added short video vignettes to its content offerings. Continue Reading
Nielsen released its Total Audience Report for the second quarter of 2016 and got into the nitty gritty of choice in the media space. It acknowledges that consumers now expect options in content, but noted that they don’t engage with all those choices all the time. Continue Reading
TuneCore has acquired JustGo, a social media management platform. The new property has been rebranded as TuneCore Social, which will be an all-in-one tool for social management and analytics. Continue Reading
Google is moving forward with its own voice-activated personal assistant, which is being positioned as a rival to the Amazon Echo. Google Home will interact with several types of smart home technology, including playing music from streaming services. Continue Reading
Panoply, the podcasting network owned by publisher Slate, is planning to launch an office in London. This new base will focus on increasing collaborations with audio talent in the UK market. Continue Reading
Deezer is back in the headlines, this time for a deal with Feature.fm. The streaming service’s new partner bills itself as a native music advertisement platform. With this arrangement, artists can promote their work as sponsored content in Deezer’s free tier. Continue Reading
Sony Music Entertainment has renewed its deal with Tencent Music for distribution in China. The conglomerate operates QQ Music, a very popular streaming service for the Asian market. Continue Reading
AudioBoom has inked another partnership, this time focused on the Australian market. It will now host, distribute, and monetize on-demand versions of the radio programs from Grant Broadcasters. Continue Reading
Streaming is projected as the source of nearly all mobile music by 2022, according to new research from Strategy Analytics. The latest report pegged streaming as 76% of the mobile music market in 2015, and estimated that the share would grow to 95% by 2022. Continue Reading