Webcast listening in May maintained flat performance month-over-month, shaving about one percent of Average Active Sessions (AAS) from April’s total across Triton Digital’s measured Webcast Metrics clients. The story was more vigorous in the year-over-year comparison. Continue Reading
Soon after Twitter launched, in March, 2006, it was dubbed a microblogging network. Podcasting is often compared to blogging. Is there such a thing as micropodcasting? One contender for that description is Anchor, a mobile-only app that invites users to connect with short audio voice recordings. Early adopters are passionate about it. Continue Reading
National Public Radio Digital Services (NPR DS) will move its streaming technology to Triton Digital this fall, transitioning its member stations from Limelight Networks, the current streaming technology provider. An email notifying stations of the change was sent last Thursday. Continue Reading
In a startling announcement that apparently hopes to drive a wedge into the radio audience measurement field, five broadcast groups have created a partnership with Shazam at the center, to develop what the announcement calls a “groundbreaking new audio measurement solution.” Continue Reading
Pandora released its second-quarter earnings yesterday, splitting Wall Street bets. Pandora delivered red ink earnings of -26 cents per share, against expectation of -30 cents. Investors liked that, but didn’t like a missed revenue estimate. As always, a closer look at the balance sheet deepens context. Continue Reading
Adforce.com has acquired the exclusive right to sell ads for radio stations and podcasts of broadcast group Communicorp. Technology from Triton Digital and XAPPmedia is part of the alliance. Continue Reading
Spotify, which has assertively strengthened and promoted the advertising opportunity of its free-listening service over the past year, today announced the expansion and official launch of programmatic buying across the company’s 59 markets, serving 70-million listeners. Continue Reading
Advertising technology company WideOrbit is partnering with RAIN News to produce a webinar discussion of simulcasting. The free webinar is set for Tuesday, July 19, at 2:00PM EDT (11:00AM PDT). Featured speakers: Tim Murphy (VP of Digital Strategy & Enterprise Platforms, Entercom), Jim Kott (Sr. Director of Product Management, WideOrbit), and Rob Kass (VP of Product Leadership – Digital Audio, Nielsen) Continue Reading
Pandora published some numbers in an article that is both a response to recent comScore audience measurement data, and part of a continuing competition with Spotify for marketing dollars spent by advertisers to reach online radio listeners. We spoke with Pandora executive Heidi Browning. Continue Reading
Spotify For Brands, the company’s outreach division which promotes the free-listening service to advertisers, has released a new trove of data focused on brand awareness and listener profiling in the U.K. It is part of an ongoing The New Audio series, with survey work commissioned from TNS. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web. Today: Bob Lefsetz thinks Apple Music should have free access and Chris Price thinks singles charts should count radio play. Continue Reading
Guest columnist Glenn Peoples observes that AM/FM is required to pay the music industry only one of two performance royalties, unlike streaming radio which is required to pay both songwriters and labels. He asserts that every point of market share which moves from broadcast radio to Pandora is worth $60-million dollars of revenue to labels and artists. Continue Reading