Pandora announced the hire of Alan Schanzer as Senior Vice President of Agency and Advertiser Development. With the quickly growing maturity of streaming audio advertising, and Pandora’s history of developing both local and national brand affiliations, this role is key to the company’s 2015 strategy. Continue Reading
adStream is a journal of ad-stalking in streaming audio services.
With podcasts and other on-demand talk programming so much in the post-Serial news flow, we turned our ad-stalking mindset to audio ads in podcast streams. We opened the Stitcher app to gauge how much interruption there is, and of what type. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: A pureplay birthday for All Songs Considered; a roundtable on radio’s future; could a music subscriber also hear commercials? Continue Reading
Automaker Hyundai is planning its 2016 digital dashboards, and issued a press release with some details. The system is called Display Audio, and comes in Google and Apple flavors. It is plug-and-play, where the driver connects a smartphone to the dashboard with a USB cable. The CD player has been eliminated. Continue Reading
In an ongoing patent lawsuit against iBiquity, developer of HD Radio technology, and several U.S. radio groups, a judge has declared that the radio groups may retreat to the sidelines while iBiquity argues for the invalidity of the patent claim. The next step will be either a lawsuit dismissal (if the judge finds the patent claim invalid), or a proceeding in which the radio groups will get a clarified version of the case going forward. Continue Reading
Reddit, the popular and influential social recommendation site, is aboard the podcasting train with a new show called Upvoted. The program’s mission, which perhaps rides on the coattails of Serial’s investigative reporting style, is to dig deeper into Reddit’s most popular (i.e. upvoted) stories. Continue Reading
Month-over-month webcast listening moved incrementally upward in October, according to Triton Digital’s monthly Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker. Year-over-year and year-to-date gains were also apparent in September. Continue Reading
If audio-on-demand is a key phrase for 2015, a new partnership sets the stage. On-demand audio hosting platform AudioBoom has partnered with mobile services company Nobex Radio to provide on-demand audio listening to radio station listeners on their mobile devices. Continue Reading
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A six-minute blast of news you need to know in streaming music and online audio. This week: CES! Plus: CBS launches a podcast network; Deezer acquires Muve Music; Naxos super-serves classical streaming; SiriusXM deliver 2014 results. Continue Reading
Beleaguered retailer Tesco, which owns 3,300 stores in the U.K., and a portfolio of media assets under the Blinkbox brand, has reportedly sold its video Blinkbox service to phone company TalkTalk. Blinkbox Music, which announced a million streams last September, is not part of the deal, but a buyer is reportedly lined up. Continue Reading
In an impactful announcement, CBS launched Play.it, a web-based podcast network. The venture brings CBS’ significant talent assets, program brands, and promotional power to the growing podcast network industry. The initiative is co-developed by CBS Radio and CBS Local Digital Media. Continue Reading
It’s a big week for Rivet Radio, an up-and-coming listening platform for on-demand audio. A new partnership with American Public Media (APM), the second-largest producer of public radio programming, is complemented by new connected-car distribution agreements. Continue Reading