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Pandora wallops iTunes Radio in NPD survey – Research group NPD Group released a small set of survey data revealing what a sample group of smartphone users listen to on their phones. In a sample of 328 users, 71% reported listening to Pandora in the past week, and 15% listened to iTunes Radio … but, the deck is stacked.
GM puts NPR app in its Internet-connected cars – National Public Radio has scored a distribution victory with an agreement to make the NPR listening app available to drivers of GM’s Internet-connected cars. The digital dashboards of those cars will offer to download the app and make it a featured selection.
Internet listening maintained high ground in December – Internet listening remained essentially flat in December over November, according to data released by Triton Digital in its Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker. Top-line listening growth barely nudged total listening into new-high territory. Click through for analysis and charts.
Pandora knows how you vote, readies launch of new ad segment – Next week Pandora will reportedly add a new audience segment to its targeted ad products: political preference. The market-leading Internet radio service uses zip codes from user registrations, combined with historical voting data and musical choices.
POLL: Is Pandora radio? – Leading Internet radio platform Pandora seeks to reinvent radio and replace it. The brand is often referred to as Pandora Radio, implying that Pandora is the same as radio … but different. Is Pandora radio? Click through to vote your answer.
In more organizational change, Deezer closes Australian office – Paris-based international music subscription service Deezer will close its Australian office. Thomas Heymann, who ran that office, will leave the company. Heymann oversaw Deezer’s Australian launch in 2012. Deezer’s Australian service will continue, undisturbed by the structural change, managed from Paris.
New study projects growth of online listening – A new research report from eMarketer projects U.S. online listening to grow incrementally through 2018, from 148-million listeners in 2013 to 183-million listeners in 2018. eMarketer characterizes the audience as “mass market.”
Kurt Hanson: Mid-days Are Surprisingly Important – Kurt Hanson blog: Recently, Nielsen Audio released its first annual “State of the Media: Audio Today” report — its new version of Arbitron’s venerable annual “Radio Today” reports. One interesting finding is the importance of the “workday” daypart.
Edison: How Millennials listen – Edison Research has revisited its landmark study on streaming music listening conducted last September, “The New MainStream.” Now, Edison breaks out numbers for the 18-34 demographic.