Happy Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. Oh, and welcome back to work. Feeling exhausted after the long weekend? Or perhaps inspired by work as a refuge from the clamorous holiday season? Either way, Laid Back Radio is a great sonic prescription. Continue Reading
Mobile streaming of radio stations cannot replace digital broadcasting in Australia — that’s the message from Commercial Radio Australia (CRA), which commissioned a whitepaper study from broadcast technology expert Professor Reg Coutts. Continue Reading
Spotify released its 2013 financials, with a basic P&L that tells a vigorous growth story, higher revenue, and lower loss compared to the previous year. At the same time, most of the gross revenue was paid into the music industry as licensing expenses. Continue Reading
Nielsen posted interesting observations derived from a study of streaming activity for the week ending November 9. In that week, for the first time in the 10 years that Nielsen has been tracking online audio, more than 4-billion streams were consumed. Video streams also broke a record, surpassing 2-billion. Continue Reading
Podcast producer, ad-repping company, and listening platform Podcast One issued a takedown demand to podcast listening app Stitcher, calling for the removal of Podcast One programs from the Stitcher platform. We spoke with Podcast One founder Norm Pattiz about the situation status, and what it means for podcasting. Continue Reading
More Christmas listening than anyone can bear, thanks to George Bundy’s excellent annual directory of Christmas streaming at Webradio.fm. The Christmas Internet Radio page is a listing of broadcasters whose stations (or HD extensions) are into all-Christmas, followed by a long list of pureplay holiday programming. Continue Reading
Thanks to AccuRadio, which sponsored the video production of our London Summit on November 4, and thanks also to the outstanding audiovisual production team at 1 Wimpole Street, we can offer RAIN Summit Europe panels for viewing. Continue Reading
adStream is an ad-stalking journal in streaming audio.
Video ads in audio streams often convey the entire marketing message, even to listeners who aren’t looking at the screen, which is often the case. We have also spotted some video commercials on music services that require watching to deliver a fully branded message. Continue Reading
The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) released its third-quarter revenue report. In it, digital advertising revenue continues its year-over-year growth story, while traditional spot revenue continues to show incremental decline from comparison quarters. Continue Reading
Everyone knows that listening to Mozart makes babies smarter. Even if that’s not true, a background soundtrack of Mozart’s music is somehow conducive to working and mental clarity. Radio Mozart has you covered. Continue Reading
iHeartRadio is the first streaming music service to plant its flag in the Yo App Index. Yo is a simple social messaging service that launched in April, and has about two-million users. Continue Reading
The biggest podcast hit today is “Serial,” a wholly original spinoff of This American Life. The true-crime show which investigates a real-world murder case, delivers 1.5-million downloads per episode, and iTunes (the most important distribution point for podcasting in general), noted today that Serial was the fastest podcast to reach five-million downloads and streams. The program is seeking donations to spin off from “This American Life” for a second season. Continue Reading