Blues Debut adds a fresh twist to blues programming, and lives up to its name, by playing only the most recent release of any artist in the playlist. Furthermore, an emphasis system favors the newest new. The blues is as old as suffering, but this station sticks to the latest. Continue Reading
On March 8, then-CEO Joe Kennedy resigned his position, and the hunt was on for a new captain. That search took six months. On September 12, Brian McAndrews was named Pandora CEO. The McAndrews appointment signaled the company’s intention to focus on monetizing the market-leading audience that Kennedy had built. Continue Reading
RadioIO provides consumer listening and custom background music to corporations. The company traces its found roots back to 2000. this announcement upgrades RadioIO’s technical underpinnings with Triton Digital services. Continue Reading
In a noisy, all-access world, Beyonce’s new video album is a startling triple-exercise in product building, reverse marketing, and distribution strategy. But to some, it looks like new clothes on an old horse. Still, a viral hit always seems surprising, and feels fresh — perhaps because virality represents the voice of a crowd, not gatekeepers. Continue Reading
Streamripping: a once-popular (and still practiced) way of pulling songs out of an Internet radio stream and saving them as MP3 files. Shazam and SoundHound bring free-or-cheap music collecting to the user’s encounter with music anywhere, including radio. Life is a stream, and Shazam rips it. Continue Reading
Internet listening reached all-time highs in October, according to data released by Triton Digital in its Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker. Pandora advanced its market-leading position with month-over-month and year-over-year gains. We analyze long- and short-term trends. Continue Reading
TargetSpot, the leading digital audio advertising network, and Radionomy, a leading streaming platform for pureplay producers and broadcasters, have created a business combination which intends to expand the geographic reach and technological scope of each company. Continue Reading
Last.fm, a music discovery and Internet radio service, owned by CBS and operating in several national markets, released downward-trending 2012 financials. Bad news in the U.K., some uplift in the U.S. Continue Reading
We were hooked by Earl Grant’s dusky reading of Fever, which took us straight into a nighttime fog along the Seine, Parisian streetlights fighting against the damp air. Wait, it’s Monday morning. Continue Reading
In last Wednesday’s Spotify media event, the most important announcement was the launch of an expanded free service on smartphones. “Shuffle” was the buzzword of the day for Spotify. The next day, without fanfare, Google updated its Google Play music service for Android… Continue Reading
The five most-read article this week. Pandora VP speaks out; Spotify’s big announcement; the state of HD Radio; YouTube has more Led Zeppelin than Spotify; TuneIn’s year-end review.
An unofficial revenue report reveals YouTube as a financial giant. On the content side, YouTube is winning the streaming-music war before launching its rumored music service. Led Zeppelin signed an “exclusive” streaming deal with Spotify, but already has a much larger presence on YouTube. Continue Reading