Deezer has announced two business developments of note for its listeners. First, the streaming service has added a new section with music from the Ministry of Sound label. Second, it has added a new family plan. Continue Reading
Guvera announced that it raised $100 million in a financing round over the holiday weekend. The streaming service’s leaders said they would next be turning their attention to an IPO, with plans to list on the Australian Securities Exchange or Nasdaq. “It’s a pre-IPO round…but we haven’t set any timeline,” CEO Darren Herft told The Australian Financial Review. Continue Reading
One aspect of the music licensing ruling expected from the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has been delivered, as an answer from the Register of Copyrights to a question posed by the CRB. The question? Whether webcasters could pay different royalty rates to major labels and non-major labels. Continue Reading
Nielsen released new data which profiles Millennials by political affiliation. The study promotes audio marketing to Millennials, especially via AM/FM and satellite radio. Nielsen also notes that “digital channels have a big impact.” Continue Reading
Guest columnist Chris Price of New Slang Media writes about the challenge of effective music discovery. He puts several music services to the test, to very interesting results. Continue Reading
Part of Pandora’s exclusive deal with the second season of hit podcast Serial, announced earlier this month, is streaming rights to the first season. That started on Tuesday, and gave us a preview of the unique presentation planned for the… Continue Reading
In the wake of Pandora’s announcement that it would acquire Rdio assets in a bankruptcy auction, which included a general reference to Rdio “winding down” under the stewardship of CEO Anthony Bay, Rdio has put more specifics into the plan. Continue Reading
Pandora and iHeartRadio sent us music metrics for 2015 — perhaps on the premature side, considering three huge releases (Justin Bieber, One Direction, Adele) in the past two weeks. We’re betting that audience preference data will be significantly altered by December 31. Continue Reading
Do public station heads make too much money, as non-profit executives? The answer is in the beholder, and the American University School of Communication has made it easy to behold, by posting salaries and station expenses. Continue Reading
In the latest of a series of content agreements, DGital Media announces today that it has signed an exclusive deal with the comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB). UCB audio programs will join the Comedy Voices podcast network. Continue Reading
The sometimes beleaguered music industry is rejoicing as two album releases come into the market as record-breaking successes. But the jubilance goes in two different directions. Adele is on a record-breaking pace of sales, while justin Bieber shatters a streaming record. what does it all mean? Continue Reading
The Russian listening market has a new webcast destination, a radio aggregation portal called Chameleon, co-created by Russian broadcast company EMG (European Media Group) and Karnaval, the largest broadcast/online radio site in Turkey. Continue Reading