Interviews with, and contributions from, the most perceptive voices in the online audio industry.
James Cridland’s Future of Radio is a column by the Australia-based radio futurologist. THIS WEEK: Radio’s Apollo 11 cameo; engineering shortages loom worldwide; notes from Chicago’s Podcast Movement conference; much, much more. Continue Reading
Guest columnist Glenn Peoples observes that AM/FM is required to pay the music industry only one of two performance royalties, unlike streaming radio which is required to pay both songwriters and labels. He asserts that every point of market share which moves from broadcast radio to Pandora is worth $60-million dollars of revenue to labels and artists. Continue Reading
Guest columnist Dominick Milano charts a brief history of personalized media, and podcasting. What about the two M’s: Measurement and Monetization? Click through to read on. Continue Reading
James Cridland’s Future of Radio is a column by the Australia-based radio futurologist. THIS WEEK: The truth behind online live, linear radio; Katz’ Stacey Lynn Schulman on the future of radio; several BBC items; much more. Continue Reading
Guest columnist Glenn Peoples offers a case study analyzing why online radio can be a better exposure market than traditional radio for certain crossover artists. Continue Reading
Does Pandora or Radio Pay Better Royalty Rates to Songwriters and Music Publishers? Glenn Peoples, Music Insights and Analytics at Pandora, crunches the numbers and makes an important distinction between the one-to-one nature of Pandora “spins” and the one-to-many broadcast model. Continue Reading
James Cridland’s Future of Radio is a column by the Australia-based radio futurologist. THIS WEEK: Wall Street Journal on NPR’s age issues. Updates to the Next Radio conference. Looking ahead to Australia’s OzPod. Much more. Continue Reading
Rhapsody is the great uncle of on-demand music subscription services. Two months ago Mike Davis took over as CEO, quickly tightening the ship with a round of layoffs. Last week came the announcement that Rhapsody would become Napster across all territories, consolidating its brand. RAIN News dialed up a conversation with Mike Davis to discuss that decision, and talk about steering a music service through a complex competitive landscape. Continue Reading
James Cridland’s Future of Radio is a column by the Australia-based radio futurologist. THIS WEEK: A discussion of why radio leaders shouldn’t necessarily be radio people; radio shows and covering tragedy; bluetooth radio distribution in India. Continue Reading
Connected cars are either either a threat to radio or an opportunity, depending on who you talk to. But there’s not much talk at all about self-driving cars, which are on a quick development pace. Guest columnist Mark Ramsey holds forth. Continue Reading
Yesterday’s announcement that Rhapsody would rebrand as Napster across its global music service empire caused flashbacks in the minds of digital audio veterans. Matt Graves helped launch Rhapsody in 2001, and has worked in the online media fields for even longer. In this guest column he reviews the astonishing and unlikely history of Napster. Continue Reading
Guest columnist Vickie Nauman is Principal and Owner of CrossBorderWorks Consulting & Advising, and was U.S. President of 7digital for two years. Here, she identifies five points of sustainability in the new music industry. Continue Reading