Radio stocks did well this year, notching double- or triple-digit growth in 2013. Gains far surpassed the S&P 500, which itself enjoyed 20-percent growth. We put a radio-stock basket against the S&P index, and also against Pandora for a graphic look at a banner 2013 for radio and Internet radio brands. Continue Reading
RAIN Summit NYC – Pureplays and Podcasts, will be hosted by Kurt Hanson and Jennifer Lane on Wednesday, February 5 at The Greene Space in New York. Panel discussions and presentations will cover all aspects of the evolving streaming audio marketplace, followed by a cocktail reception for speakers and attendees. 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
“I don’t have to be doing this,” Norman Pattiz said about his new business. We assumed as much about the retired founder of Westwood One, the giant radio content syndicator he started in 1976. But he is doing it, and we wanted to know why, how, and where he wants to take it. Continue Reading
Internet radio and streaming audio have inched toward mainstream use, but still lag other media consumption types. A new study from MIDiA Consulting (Media Insights & Decisions in Action) seeks to discover why — while profiling digital music users generally. Continue Reading
Is HD Radio evolutionary, revolutionary, or neither? That depends on who you ask. The digital transmission technology is expanding its footprint — again, either slowly or quickly depending on who you’re talking to. We spoke to Bob Struble, President and CEO of iBiquity, the developer and owner of HD Radio technology. Continue Reading
One reason that listening hours per week per capita to Internet radio are increasing (according to both the annual Arbitron-Edison “Infinite Dial” study and easy math you can do with monthly Triton Digital press releases) and listening hours per week… Continue Reading
Pandora CFO Mike Herring addressed the Credit Suisse 2013 Technology Conference this week. The format was a moderated Q&A session. We pulled out three subjects within which Herring’s responses were of particular interest: ratings measurement, how Pandora sells ads, and… Continue Reading
In what is widely interpreted a patent trolling, some radio broadcasters using HD digital transmission technology (HD Radio) alongside their analog signals are being sued by Delaware Radio Technologies and Wyncomm LLC for patent infringement. The spate of lawsuits has… Continue Reading
Pandora released its three-point Audience Metrics report for November this morning. The statistics reveal month-over-month growth in each category. The most scrutinized part of Pandora’s monthly measurement drumbeat is the Active Listeners statistic. That number has received especially obsessive attention… Continue Reading
Just as Chromecast, a $35 HDMI plug-in dongle from Google, is a simple way to stream video to a television, a little device called Rocki does the same for audio to analog speakers by turning them into WiFi-enabled speakers. Engadget… Continue Reading