TuneIn added a monthly subscription plan (“TuneIn Premium”) to its free-of-charge platform today. At the same time, the company is announcing over 60-million monthly active users. TuneIn Premium is launching with several new content initiatives. Ready for baseball? Continue Reading
A new report from New York Market Radio (NYMRAD) examines statistics of New York City commuters, and the opportunity to marketers. A section on Internet radio explains characteristics of online listening. Continue Reading
ASCAP announced this morning that Mark Sperling, a seasoned executive with strategy, partnership, and merger specialties, will join the performing rights organization as SVP, Strategy and Business Development. Sperling has a deep financial transaction background in mergers, partnerships, and IPOs. Continue Reading
Financial intelligence company SNL Kagan has given RAIN News an advance copy of Economics of Mobile Music, 2015 edition. The detailed report projects subscriber growth rates and revenue for the top nine music subscription services. Continue Reading
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The weekly update of the streaming audio industry, from RAIN News. THIS WEEK: A talent agency gets into podcasting; radio targeted in pre-1972 lawsuit; Apple disagrees with MusicWatch research; Deezer wants big bucks; Mad Genius Radio shuts down. Continue Reading
Traditional radio is now a litigation target over music licensing of pre-1972 recordings, thanks to an action filed in a California state court by ABS Entertainment. Will the lawsuit reach beyond the webcast streams of the radio groiups targeted? Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web. TODAY: Bob Lefsetz discovers podcasts; T-Bone talks streaming and tech. Continue Reading
Slate-owned podcast group Panoply announced that Sports Illustrated is joining as a partner program provider with 11 podcasts. The program selection includes existing and new on-demand shows. The agreement marks Panoply’s first venture into sports programming. Continue Reading
How do people discover music? Since 2002, radio’s role as the first source of discovery has plummeted while the Internet has risen. In this guest column, Larry Rosin explains another way to see radio’s ongoing importance as a hitmaker. Continue Reading
Midroll Media, freshly in its new home as a wholly owned subsidiary of E.W. Scripps, announced today the lauch of Howl Premium, a subscription service that delivers ad-free, curated podcast listening. A Neftflix-like approach to podcast discovery? Continue Reading
Mad Genius Radio, a lean-back listening platform that allows stream customization by mixing genres and balancing how each type of music is weighted in the stream, will close on Thursday, August 20. Founder Eric Neumann contacted RAIN with the news. Continue Reading
In what has come to be known as the “freemium debate,” arguments focus on whether ad-supported listening to vast catalogs of music, with limited interactivity, effectively funnel users to music subscription plans that yield high-margin royalty payments to labels and artists. The CEO of UMG thinks it’s all about balance. Continue Reading