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
Research firm BIA/Kelsey released a sponsored report called The Internet Radio Revolution Has Arrived, describing the growth of Internet radio and projecting its future. Using its own research supplemented by other sources (Edison Research, eMarketer), the report is a white paper that documents consumer uptake of Internet radio and identifies the growth drivers Continue Reading
Pono Music completed a wildly successful Kickstarter funding campaign, raising nearly eight times the $800,000 goal. How important is high-quality music reproduction to you, when listening through a portable device? Important enough to carry a new gadget in addition to your phone? Vote your opinion! Continue Reading
If integrated broadcast and webcast ratings is the holy grail of radio audience measurement, Nielsen Audio took a new step toward holistic metrics this week when SVP Farshad Family broadly described how it intends to track online radio streams. A three-pronged approach would deliver listening data. Continue Reading
Digital measurement firm comScore released new data on mobile and smartphone usage last week. Two streaming apps, YouTube and Pandora, are in the top five. Pandora’s mobile strategy is the key to the streaming platform’s amazing success. With more than 70% of their listeners on mobile, Pandora understood that concept early and capitalized on it. Continue Reading
Spotify is making a splash as it enters Asian countries with lower prices for its premium subscription service. Spotify has entered its 56th country, entering the Philippines with a $3 price (converted to U.S. dollars) for subscription. If that seems cheap, consider contrasting GDPs. Continue Reading
A recent Media Technology Monitor study indicates strong year-over-year growth in consumption of streaming music among Canadian listeners, as reported by eMarketer. Survey data collected last fall shows a doubling of stream listening from the previous year, from 11% of the survey population to 22%. the sample contained English-speaking Canadian adults. Continue Reading
This morning Billboard reported Nielsen SoundScan’s sales and streaming numbers for the first quarter. Track and album sales are down, at an accelerating pace. Meanwhile, streaming is up, and an interesting revenue calculation indicates that streaming growth outpaces the decrease in downloads. Continue Reading
A new poll conducted by TV magazine 60 Minutes, in collaboration with Vanity Fair magazine, found that Americans choose radio as their favorite music-listening medium more than any other. Methodology of this survey was not disclosed, except that respondents were American. Continue Reading
Market-leading Internet radio service Pandora released its monthly audience metrics for March today, promoting year-over-year growth in its key metrics. the most controversial statistic is “Share of total U.S. radio listening,” which jumped to more than 9%. Listening hours grew also, while audience size remained the same. Continue Reading
Internet listening gained five percent in February over January, according to data released by Triton Digital in its Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker. The five-percent gain from the previous month lifted total stream listening into new-high territory. Click through for long-term trending charts. Continue Reading