The five most-read articles this week in RAIN. Thanks for reading!
The most-read piece this week noted that in Apple’s quarterly earnings call, iTunes Radio was not mentioned once. Significantly, later in the week, Goldman Sachs got bullish on Pandora and P stock vaulted upward. The “Pandora vs. iTunes Radio” competition seems increasingly irrelevant … at least, until Apple tells us something about its service metrics.
SoundCloud scored a $60-million investment. The lead investor called SoundCloud “The YouTube of Audio.” That makes sense, but … isn’t YouTube already that, as the leading platform for music listening? We analyzed, with historical perspective.- Kurt Hanson’s latest blog post! Somehow, Art Linkletter gets into it.
- Guest contributor Patrick Reynolds of Triton Digital compared the competition between terrestrial and online radio to the Super Bowl. Bob Dylan sneaks in there somehow. It’s a great read.
- Pandora announced its sponsorship of an Imagine Dragons concert on Super Bowl weekend.