Boutique investment banking firm Coady Diemar released its June edition of the Random Bits note to investors. Focused on digital music, with particular attention to the Apple/Beats acquisition, the analysis concludes that the so-called access model is supplanting music ownership. Continue Reading
Yesterday we posted main points from Price Waterhouse Cooper’s Entertainment & Media Outlook study — an analysis and economic projection of several media industry categories that was introduced in a live webcast. PWC provided RAIN with deeper dives into the Radio and Music Industry portions of the report. Continue Reading
Today Pandora released the final edition of its monthly audience metrics report, bringing to an end a two-year series of disclosures. Audience metrics were essentially flat month-ever-month, with year-over-year gains. Pandora stock (P) opened sharply lower this morning, and remains down about 2.5% as of this post. Continue Reading
Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC) released its Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2014-2018, in which it forecasts growth drivers in the music business. “Music streaming explodes” is PWC’s characterization of streaming’s role in industry growth. Continue Reading
Edison Research has spun out a new segment of The Infinite Dial 2014 survey, co-produced with Triton Digital. The Infinite Dial main report was issued on March 5, and deep dives have been released periodically since then, revealing details of certain demographics and consumer segments. This week, Edison put up some interesting insights about Public Radio P1’s (frequent listeners). Continue Reading
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