Financial services firm Canaccord Genuity released its monthly audit of Pandora ads for May, showing that as listener hours increased, average ad load dropped incrementally. The company uses a methodology that tests within several registered identities in different demographics, across four geographic markets. Continue Reading
We are happy to announce the first RAIN News Reader Survey! We’d love to know more about how you use RAIN, and what you’d like to see in our coverage of Internet radio and online audio. The survey is designed to be speedy. Enter a drawing for free registration at a RAIN Summit! Contribute your voice. Continue Reading
ClearVoice Research, a market intelligence company founded in 2006, released a 50-page survey analysis of the streaming music industry entitled Media Review: Music Streaming Services Market Profile. The report analyzes results of a 1,010-person survey of U.S. Internet-using adults. survey questions explored how users consume music and other audio (news, sports), their awareness of streaming music brands, and their considerations when evaluating services. Continue Reading
The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) today released its first-quarter revenue report for the radio industry. Overall, earnings were flat year-over-year, comparing with the first quarter of 2013. The results mark the fifth consecutive quarter of flat year-over-year revenue. Continue Reading
Radio Joint Audio Research (RAJAR), the official body in charge of measuring radio listening in the U.K., today released the latest in its series of quarterly updates on the where, how, and how much of radio listening. Radio listening is up year-over-year, with a trend to use of digital platforms. Continue Reading
A new study of January data by comScore and Millennial Media reveals that among 15 Internet content categories, streaming radio is (by far) the most mobile. A full 95% of time spent with streaming radio transpired in tablets (16%) and smartphones (79%). Continue Reading
Nielsen posted a fascinating infographic called Music Mapped Out that carves the U.S. into regions, and analyzes how their populations listen to, and pay for, music. It’s an interesting view of music consumption. Which U.S. region streams the most? (Hint: think coastal.) Continue Reading
SNL Kagan released the 2014 edition of Economics of Internet Music and Radio, a map of the online audio landscape and financial projections. The study considers pureplay Internet music services in detail, and also makes separate financial revenue projections for digital streams of broadcast radio. Continue Reading
Internet listening gained two percent in March over February, according to data released by Triton Digital in its Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker. The two-percent gain from the previous month lifted total stream listening into new-high territory. March is the eighth consecutive month of Internet listening aggregate gain for Triton’s top-20 list. Click for historical charts. Continue Reading
Pandora’s audience grew in April, but not enough for investors, apparently, as the stock was down three percent at 10:00 AM this morning. As always, Pandora revealed three measurements in the monthly report: Active listeners, Listener hours, and Share of total U.S. radio listening. Continue Reading
Song-skipping is a persuasive feature of personalized radio and on-demand services, driving about 50 percent of user, according to one study. Paul Lamere, director of the developer platform at The Echo Nest (now part of Spotify), analyzed millions of users and billions of song plays to tease out how quickly and often we skip songs. Continue Reading
When Pono Music completed its Kickstarter campaign with a whopping $6.2-million in crowdfunding, it motivated us to as readers whether hi-fi mobile music is important. On this site, the opinion stance has been that Pono and others are interesting ventures, but niche. Our poll results indicate stronger interest in sound quality than anticipated. Continue Reading