The Q4 RAJAR data showed another period where overall radio listening held static, but digital radio grew. In the final quarter of 2016, 48.7 million adults, or 90.1% of the adult population, listened to radio stations each week. Continue Reading
James Cridland’s Future of Radio is a column by the Australia-based radio futurologist. THIS WEEK: Celebrating World Radio Day, breaking down RAJAR data, post-Super Bowl wrap-up, and much more from around the world of audio. Continue Reading
Two top executives from SoundCloud have left the audio company. This is the second big personnel change for SoundCloud already this year as the company seeks an influx of cash from investors. Continue Reading
Radio is old. Online music is hot. Women can foresee never listening to music on the radio. Those are some of the messages that come from a survey of 2,000 women aged 15-54. On the other hand, three-quarters of women say radio feels like a good friend. Continue Reading
The return of Prince’s catalog on Sunday has been cause for celebration across streaming services. Today, the purple flag flies proudly at Spotify, iHeartRadio, Pandora, and more. Continue Reading
“2016 was a very significant year for Pandora, with progress on every important front. We enter 2017 with a clear set of strategic priorities and a solid plan to execute against them.” That was Pandora CEO Tim Westergren starting his company’s Q4 earnings call yesterday. Always optimistic, he laid out 2017 goals at a pivot point for the company he founded. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Stevie Wonder speaks out for radio fairness. Spotify doubling down on artist relations. Continue Reading
PodcastOne and Edison Research have shared the results from a series of brand lift studies, which examined the the impact of podcast ads for national consumer and service brands. The data combined three separate studies into five national brands during 2016, including analysis of brand awareness lift achieved by podcast advertising. Continue Reading
Podtrac released its January data for the top podcast publishers. The ranking only covers publishers that are Podtrac clients using its measurement systems. The list usually shows little change in the order from month to month, and the beginning of 2017 is no exception. Continue Reading
Prince’s catalog from Warner Bros is confirmed for release to streaming services on Sunday. NPR received word of the date from Napster, and the songs are expected to be available on most other streaming platforms as well. iHeartRadio has some purple plans for celebration. Universal has secured rights to manage the rest of Prince’s catalog. Continue Reading
Digital audio advertising sales and technology company Targetspot is announcing a new ad-serving and analytics platform called TargetSpot Passport. the platform is native to streaming audio publishers — TargetSpot lives alongside Radionomy and SHOUTcast as subsidiaries of media giant Vivendi. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Should radio still care about song sales? Super Bowl spike for Lady Gaga. Ticketmaster makes a music hire. Continue Reading