Shazam announced a new feature focused on businesses looking to use the recognition app for marketing. Shazam for Brands adds more ability to create data-driven storytelling on top of the core Shazam functionality. It offers tools for data collection and analysis, branded content, and more scannable material for customers to engage with. Continue Reading
Jacobs Media has released the results of TechSurvey 12, its annual survey of P1 radio listeners in the U.S. and Canada. The expressed preferences in media usage showed little variation this year from the TechSurvey 11, but the latest results did see some changes in attitudes about digital services, car listening, and podcasts. Continue Reading
The cadre of apps for listening and playlisting across streaming services has got yet another member. Qus is an app that can pull tunes from YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Deezer in addition to locally stored tracks. This is becoming a more common approach to mobile listening, but few of the latest entries have shown anything that indicates they’ll stand the test of time. Continue Reading
Chinese conglomerate Alibaba unveiled a new music property today. Alibaba Planet is a tiered platform for building fan-artist relationships and for music creatives to connect with each other. China is subject to some complicated regulations when it comes to music streaming, so it will be interesting to see just how that component of Alibaba Planet unfolds. Continue Reading
Amazon announced new month-by-month options for how its users can access Prime membership perks and its streaming video features. The entire Prime service can still be bought as an annual subscription for $99, but now is also available for $10.99 a month. That alone is a marked shift in Amazon’s model, but it has also made the Prime Video streaming service available as a standalone for $8.99 a month. Continue Reading
Webcast listening in February grew by 8% compared to January, and notched a 17% rise year-over-year, according to Triton Digital’s monthly Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker, released yesterday. Click through for historical charts. Continue Reading
James Cridland’s Future of Radio is a column by the Australia-based radio futurologist. THIS WEEK: Pondering and pontificating about public radio’s future in a digital world. Much more from the U.S., the UK, and Australia. Continue Reading
Guvera has entered a partnership that will see it highlighted on the Asia’s Next Top Model television show. The streaming platform will be tasked with curating music for the program’s runway shows. Guvera has also launched a brand channel for the show in its app, which collects both music and video from the reality program. Continue Reading
Futuri Media publicly announced POST, a broadcaster tool for creating on-demand audio, a new product exclusively introduced by Futuri CEO Daniel Anstandig at RAIN Summit West in Las Vegas on Sunday. POST makes it easy to clip segments from linear radio and re-purpose them as on-demand audio. Continue Reading
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After months of waiting, Google’s on-demand music service, Google Play Music has launched its podcast section. In doing so, Google joins Spotify, Deezer, and Pandora by incorporating podcasts into a music-only catalog. Here are four things to know. Continue Reading
Google Play Music has officially launched a section for podcasts. The service first teased the new feature back in October, but then went silent until an email leaked late last week. But the company has been busy in that time, signing on some of the big players from the podcast world. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Pandora CEO at Midem; some context on the vinyl resurgence; Spotify’s millennial listeners; Kanye and Tidal sued over “exclusivity.” Continue Reading