Entering 2016, Chicago-based Rivet Radio is shifting to focus on serving business customers, putting its consumer-focused enterprise on the back burner for the time being. We spoke to Rivet CEO John MacLeod about Rivet’s mission to build data-smart on-demand talk content in its cloud-based system. Continue Reading
The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) published its acknowledgement of SoundExchange’s intent to audio the music royalty payments of Pandora and several broadcast groups. An audit sounds alarming, but in fact is a standard annual process. Continue Reading
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Is Serial the most successful podcast ever? You’d think so, reading media hype about it. Confusion about podcast success metrics is a deeply rooted problem. Individual network solutions give early movers an advantage, and customized ad-serving technology is putting intelligence into the system too. Continue Reading
iHeartRadio is announcing today that is 80-million registered users, up from 70-million in June, 2015. That rate of growth enables the claim that iHeartRadio is growing “faster than Facebook or any other streaming music service.” Click through for terms used in the audience wars. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: When and why podcasts ads work; Patreon’s serious Series B round; Apple launches Music Memos recording app. Continue Reading
A new edition of an annual research projection from MyersBizNet forecasts 7.7% growth in ad spend across audio/radio, video/TV, display, video, mobile, and other categories. Terrestrial radio is predicted to grow 5% across “legacy” and digital advertising opportunities. Internet radio is projected at 25% growth. Continue Reading
Univision has acquired a controlling 40% stake in satirical publication The Onion, causing cognitive dissonance among observers. While the Spanish-language media giant’s investment in satire might not make the most intuitive sense, it does work demographically. Continue Reading
Edison Research released the date and time of the The Infinite Dial webinar, an annual event in which survey results about American listening are released each March. The Infinite Dial is a joint production of Edison Research and Triton Digital. The date is March 10, at 2pm EST. Click through for registration info. Continue Reading
Australia-based Omny Studio will announce a new tool which easily converts audio to a video player for posting on Facebook. This clever automated workaround solves one of the most vexing problems in social audio for podcasters and broadcasters — Facebook’s inexplicable lack of native audio. Continue Reading
iTunes Radio, a late-arriving Internet radio initiative, once widely appraised as a “Pandora killer,” will end as a free, ad-supported service on January 29. On that date the lean-back listening service will become part of Apple Music’s monthly music subscription offering. Continue Reading
VuHaus, public media’s video network, has told RAIN News that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has renewed an initial grant for $430,000. RAIN spoke with principals Mike Henry and Erik Langner about VuHaus of the past, present, and future. Continue Reading
Southern Cross Austereo, Australia’s largest commercial radio group, has reportedly started turning on the webcasts of its radio stations. At least 18 stations are now simulcasting. It has been two years since, in a startling boycott of Internet-delivered radio, Australian radio stations shut off their streams as an act of protest. Continue Reading