Pandora announced that Lars Murray will serve as its new vice president of industry relations. Murray joins the company from Columbia Records, where he was vice president of digital media. Continue Reading
Clip Interactive has announced an agreement with Entercom to create mobile apps for Entercom’s Portland radio stations. The new apps will allow listeners to interact with “all elements of the broadcast and stream.” The apps are designed to create additional station revenue. Continue Reading
Stream aggregator TuneIn had a soccer-motivated milestone during the World Cup tournament. The whole event (not just Brazil’s sad shocker at the end) added up to TuneIn’s biggest listening attraction ever. Continue Reading
Brief new items and worthy reads from around the web: Legal blog demystifies the YouTube/indie artist contract; Baboom gets a new industry hire; Spotify loses a European exec Continue Reading
Sunita Kaur, director of Asia for Spotify, spoke with The Next Web about the company’s plans for growth in the coming months. Since its first foray into Asian markets in April 2013, Spotify has been moving slowly. The company is only present in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and the Philippines, leaving huge swaths of the continent untouched. Continue Reading
Deezer announced changes to its subscription options on Friday. The Paris-based streaming service said it will discontinue the desktop-only Premium plan for new users. Existing members with that plan will be able to continue using the Premium plan if they wish. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Yahoo! Live update; Kindle Unlimited and its implications for content subscriptions across media types; what do people really care about in connected cars? Continue Reading
In a video (click through to watch) of an interview at the Brainstorm Tech conference hosted by Fortune, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek covered a lot of ground, In particular, he downplayed the possibility of Spotify spinning out a much-rumored IPO, with an offhand criticism of life as a public company. Continue Reading
Record sales are a troubling metric for many artists in this increasingly digital world. One approach that’s gaining some traction among musicians is to release albums not just in physical formats or on music-purchasing sites, but as apps for mobile devices. Sir Paul McCartney is the latest to try his hand at the app approach. Continue Reading
TuneCore, a leading digital agency that helps musicians distribute their recorded work to digital outlets, announced that its second-quarter revenue distribution totaled over $33-million dollars, an 18% increase over the same period last year. RAIN spoke to Scott Ackerman, TuneCore CEO, to dig deeper into the growth trend, particularly on the music-streaming side. Continue Reading
After hearing sad news of Johnny Winter’s death, we used Michael Robertson’s Radio Search Engine, and the artist-search feature in RadioTuna, to find poureplay stations pivoting quickly on the news with memorial programming. We found Rock Radio 1 placing Johnny Winter blocks into its stream of metal and blues-rock, surrounded by tribute songs by other bands. Continue Reading
Pandora announced that it now has 2 million registered listeners in Australia and New Zealand. The streaming radio service launched there in December 2012, its first non-U.S. rollout. To celebrate the milestone, Pandora created an infographic with some facts and figures about its presence in the region. Continue Reading