Anthony Bay, appointed CEO of on-demand music service Rdio, will speak at RAIN Summit West on April 6 in Las Vegas. Anthony Bay was appointed CEO of Rdio in December after a five-month search. He was formerly GM of the Digital Media Division at Microsoft. Rdio’s business alliance with Cumulus Media creates a major entity that straddles across broadcast and Internet audio. Continue Reading
The acquisition of The Echo Nest by Spotify represents an important potential alteration in the anatomy of streaming music services. The Echo Nest has a broad footprint in the industry, we wondered what the acquisition means for the many music services which rely on The Echo Nest, and their millions of users users, who, even if they don’t know it, are really listening to The Echo Nest. Continue Reading
Earlier this week we uncovered an iTunes Radio ad (read live by a DJ) on WKLB-FM, a Boston station owned by Greater Media. If you owned a radio station (and if you do own one) would you run ads for iTunes Radio? (If you work for a station, are you running those ads?) Vote your opinion. Continue Reading
This is Part 2 of a two-part blog entry. “After a couple of decades of us living in a 200+ channel television universe, we’re getting back to three networks again! In this world, there are parallels and differences here for radio to pay attention to.” Founding editor Kurt Hanson analyzes changes in media consumption. Continue Reading
Market-leading Internet radio service Pandora released its monthly audience metrics for January today, showing year-over-year growth in its key metrics. In the short month of February, Pandora reports a larger audience and greater listening share over January’s metrics. Listening hours dropped a bit, but were essentially flat month-over-month. Continue Reading
In joint press release, Spotify and The Echo Nest announced this morning that Spotify has acquired The Echo Nest. Spotify is a leading interactive, on-demand music service. The Echo Nest is the leading music intelligence tech company, providing technology that powers song recommendations to over 400 listening platforms. Continue Reading
The Infinite Dial, a large-scale research survey of consumer media usage in its 22nd year, was unleashed today by Edison Research and sponsor Triton Digital. This is part 5 of a multi-post review of The Infinite Dial 2014, presented today via webinar. Continue Reading
The Infinite Dial, a large-scale research survey of consumer media usage in its 22nd year, was unleashed today by Edison Research and sponsor Triton Digital. This is part 4 of a multi-post review of The Infinite Dial 2014, presented today via webinar. Continue Reading
The Infinite Dial, a large-scale research survey of consumer media usage in its 22nd year, was unleashed today by Edison Research and sponsor Triton Digital. This is part 3 of a multi-post review of The Infinite Dial 2014, presented today via webinar. Continue Reading
The Infinite Dial, a large-scale research survey of consumer media usage in its 22nd year, was unleashed today by Edison Research and sponsor Triton Digital. This is part 2 of a multi-post review of The Infinite Dial 2014, presented today via webinar. Continue Reading
The Infinite Dial, a large-scale research survey of consumer media usage in its 22nd year, was unleashed today by Edison Research and sponsor Triton Digital. This is part 1 of a multi-post review of The Infinite Dial 2014, presented today via webinar. Continue Reading
The latest RAIN Poll asked about preferences for in-car listening. AM/FM wins. By a small margin, a plurality of votes selected terrestrial radio over music apps streamed in the car via a smartphone. Not a single vote was cast for “Dashboard apps.” Lots of interesting comments this week. Continue Reading