Spotify announced that it kicked off 2015 with 60 million active users, including 15 million paying subscribers. The company also shared a short celebratory playlist on its blog in honor of the milestone. Continue Reading
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Reddit, the popular and influential social recommendation site, is aboard the podcasting train with a new show called Upvoted. The program’s mission, which perhaps rides on the coattails of Serial’s investigative reporting style, is to dig deeper into Reddit’s most popular (i.e. upvoted) stories. Continue Reading
Month-over-month webcast listening moved incrementally upward in October, according to Triton Digital’s monthly Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker. Year-over-year and year-to-date gains were also apparent in September. Continue Reading
In sharing the news of Google Cast from CES, we noted that the tech giant could face an uphill battle getting both streaming audio services and hardware companies to sign on to its vision for at-home listening. Less than a week after the announcement, Google Cast already has a major player that’s not interested: Spotify. Continue Reading
If audio-on-demand is a key phrase for 2015, a new partnership sets the stage. On-demand audio hosting platform AudioBoom has partnered with mobile services company Nobex Radio to provide on-demand audio listening to radio station listeners on their mobile devices. Continue Reading
One of Spain’s music charts announced the launch of a new Top 100 Songs list that will incorporate streaming numbers as well as downloads and physical sales. PROMUSICAE (Productores de Música de España) will use the new joint chart to replace its weekly Top 50 Songs and Top 100 Streaming charts. Several charts organizations worldwide have made shifts to include data about streaming. Continue Reading
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A six-minute blast of news you need to know in streaming music and online audio. This week: CES! Plus: CBS launches a podcast network; Deezer acquires Muve Music; Naxos super-serves classical streaming; SiriusXM deliver 2014 results. Continue Reading
Now that we’ve set off on a fresh new year, we’re getting some interesting and insightful perspectives on everything that transpired in the music world during 2014. Data scientists have had the time to collect final numbers and finish analyses. On Jan. 2, we got a preliminary look at the work of Nielsen SoundScan team, which showed a general trend of increased streaming and decreased sales. Today, we have the 2014 Nielsen Music U.S. Report to expand on those first finds. Continue Reading
RAIN’s founding editor Kurt Hanson gazes into the new year, and intones 15 predictions for 2015. Continue Reading
Philips announced the launch of multi-room speakers designed specifically to stream music from Spotify. The Philips Spotify speakers use Spotify Connect to control the music from within the Spotify app on a mobile device. Just press the Spotify button on any of the speakers and the stream should immediately transfer over. Continue Reading
Beleaguered retailer Tesco, which owns 3,300 stores in the U.K., and a portfolio of media assets under the Blinkbox brand, has reportedly sold its video Blinkbox service to phone company TalkTalk. Blinkbox Music, which announced a million streams last September, is not part of the deal, but a buyer is reportedly lined up. Continue Reading