The Download on Podcasts is a new weekly feature sponsored by PodcastOne.
In the Infinite Dial 2015, an ongoing research project produced by Edison Research and Triton Digital, the metrics and consumption behavior of podcast listeners are portrayed sharply. Podcast listeners are voracious! (They also trend toward affluence.) Continue Reading
If you pay attention to streaming ads, you’ve probably heard and seen lots of insurance companies. Insurance companies hold the top three spots (GEICO, Progressive, Liberty Mutual) in national radio ad placements, and we encounter GEICO ads frequently in streaming music services and in YouTube. The Martin Agency just released three video ads specifically for streaming — they hilariously challenge the user not to skip. Continue Reading
The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights held a hearing this morning to debate arguments for and against so-called Consent Decrees — decades-old laws which govern how ASCAP and BMI represent songwriters and publishers for music licensing. Here, summary and quotes. Continue Reading
United Stations Radio Network, creator and syndicator of popular FM radio programs, has partnered with Radionomy to build 24/7 online streams of archived shows. Radionomy will host the streams, and distribute them to other online radio directories. Continue Reading
There’s plenty of swirl today about Pandora’s remarks at the company’s Investor Day event last week, during which CFO Mike Herring tantalizingly implied that Pandora might some day create an on-demand music service like Spotify. Click through for his remarks, and the context around the discussion. Chief Strategy Officer Sara Clemens had things to say, too. Continue Reading
Mexican-born radio star Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo has a new distribution outlet, and PodcastOne enters a new market, as El Show de Piolin begins a new run on the podcast network. It is the first Spanish-language program on PodcastOne, joining a portfolio of 200 shows that are downloaded 120-million times a month. Continue Reading
Nielsen measured the generational reach of radio in a recently released report, calling out a “Millennial majority.” Millennials are the 18-34 cohort, and Nielsen determined that 66.million of them listen to radio each week. The results are more nuanced than many headlines. Continue Reading
Month-over-month webcast listening grew by five percent in December, according to Triton Digital’s monthly Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker. The lift came despite lower listening during Christmas week, compared to the three previous weeks. Big gains for streaming in 2014. Continue Reading
Audioboom announced a global agreement with Panasonic-owned Aupeo, to bring Audioboom’s curated mix of news, sports, comedy, and entertainment audio to the recently-launched Personal Radio by AUPEO!. Continue Reading
Sponsored by AudioBoom
A six-minute blast of news you need to know in streaming audio.
THIS WEEK: Beats Music relaunch; “The Infinite Dial” research; a podcast ratings service of the future; second time around for songwriter legislation; digital radio in Europe; another retailer cools on CD sales Continue Reading
What is the state of the programmatic audio advertising market? For a deep dive, we turned to Mike Agovino, COO of Triton Digital. He described a bifurcated programmatic market in which broadcasters have most of the impressions, but Internet radio has most of the “smart impressions” which drive the market. User registration is one key. Continue Reading
The number of “FM Still Rules the Car” headlines this week signifies a thought trend. The headlines have been induced by two new studies — one by Ipsos, and yesterday’s the Infinie Dial 2015 release by Edison Research. How should broadcast radio be thinking of this? Continue Reading