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It's All About Loyalty – Part 1
Personalities versus music intensive, local versus syndicated, Facebook, marketing, iHeartRadio, websites, mobile platforms, budgets, content, content, content… just a few of the weighty issues facing today’s radio programmer. It's enough to make a head spin.
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In Conclusion: Loyalty is the Future – Part 5
Read part 4, “Loyalty = Revenue.”There is a reason I have written my thoughts into essays. I love radio. Read More
Arbitron: Americans listen to radio for more than 14.6 billion hours each month
That's broadcast radio, as measured in the latest quarterly RADAR research. The metric of "hours listened per month" is a new statistic for Arbitron, derived at the request of subscribers.
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Pandora pads its lead in Triton Digital Internet audio rankers; CC grows, too
The just-issued December Webcast Metrics rankers for "domestic" usage covering 6am to 8pm weekdays show Pandora setting new marks. On January 5, Triton Digital announced Pandora had crossed the one-million-Active Sessions mark in the November data.
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Pandora claims a 1.0 AQH rating with 18-34s in every top-10 local market
An AQH rating - not a share - of 1.0 means at least 1% of the population in a given area listened for at least five minutes during a 15-minute period, between 6am and midnight. Pandora says that based on Edison Research data for those aged 18-34, it has attained that level in each of the top 10 markets, plus Portland, Oregon.
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Intriguing Stations Of 2011 – Part II: New Platforms
In the last weeks of 2011, the question, “What is radio?” became only slightly less contentious, or less confounding, than, “Is there a loving, caring God?”For much of 2011, it looked like the pureplays and AM/FM broadcasters were finally, cheerfully obscuring the line between “my preprogrammed radio station” and “your self-contained music collecti…
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Pandora crosses the 1,000,000-Active Sessions mark in Triton Digital ranker
Just six months ago, Pandora's Average Active Sessions, something like broadcast radio's Average Quarter Hour statistic, were about 682,000. In the just-released November Triton Digital rankers, Pandora becomes the first Internet audio service to crack the one-million mark, with a measured 1,045,551 sessions.
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Pandora is still “growing at an extraordinary pace", mostly from "word of mouth"
The ten-year-old Internet radio company with 100 million-plus registered users now “represents two-thirds of all the Internet radio listening in this country”, says CEO Joe Kennedy at today's Citi Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference in San Francisco. Pandora continues to cite a figure of 4.3% share of radio listening, and says it…
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Clear Channel's Katz 360 digital rep drops Pandora
Tim Westergren, founder of the Oakland-based Internet audio service, tells the Wall Street Journal that "the broadcast industry does not want the world to know about us, basically." Referring to this week's 10-bullet-point cautionary statement from Arbitron about mixing and matching various listening estimates, Westergren says the Arbitron release …
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R.I.P. Arbitron's Total Audience Measurement
Earlier this week, a number of leading broadcasters piped in on a scenario whereby Pandora and other online radio services would be measured alongside radio in Arbitron’s supposedly forthcoming Total Audience Measurement report, and the most telling word was this one: “Frightening.”Indeed it is “frightening,” the thought that a stable ecosystem of… Read More
Latest on mixing ratings: Pandora responds
From today's TRI Newsletter: It’s pretty simple – Pandora says "This is consistent with what Arbitron’s COO indicated earlier this month: Broadcast radio companies are clearly afraid of what an accurate apples-to-apples measurement with Internet radio will show to radio advertisers.” That’s the entire quote from Pandora’s VP of Corporate Communicat…
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Political ads hit online radio's Pandora
It seems as though terrestrial radio is going to have competition from the online radio world in the big 2012 election cycle. You can now expect to find ads not just on-air, but also online.
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Pandora: Double-digit AQH gains in every top 10 metro since September
On the Cume side, Pandora says its Cume reached 1 in 5 (19.9%) of all adults 18-34 in each of the top 10 radio markets. For adults 18-49, the weekly Cume for November (using Arbitron's PPM schedule of October 13 – November 9) topped one million for both New York and Los Angeles.
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First Listen: Spotify Radio
As a tool for keeping track of and hearing new music, I’ve really appreciated Spotify since its U.S. debut earlier this year. Spotify has been my go-to place to listen to a prospective new album purchase.
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Holiday Format Reader Poll Nominations Announced
Nearly 100 stations have been nominated in the first Radio-Info.com Holiday Format Reader Poll. Stations are nominated in eight categories and include stations on FM, AM, satellite radio and on new platforms, as well as in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
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Pandora's IPO "lock-up period" is over
From today's TRI Newsletter: Pandora stock dropped 5% on Friday and made the New York Stock Exchange's list of biggest percentage losers. But was it because new Internet audio rival Spotify announced a more Pandora-like feature, or because it was the end of the 180-day lock-up period from Pandora's own June 14 Initial Public Offering?
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Spotify gets closer to Pandora with new cutomizable radio streams
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says "We've built a radio app on top of our platform...It's kind of like Pandora, but with unlimited skipping and unlimited stations." CNET quotes Ek and says he "lost no time baiting his rival" at the LeWeb show in Paris. The Swedish-based Internet audio service broke into the U.S.
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Mobile Listenership on the Rise
Mobile Posse has released a survey showing that listening to music on the radio and on mobile devices is now about equal. The survey reports that 60% of consumers listen to music on the go and when it comes to listening online, 35% of them chose Pandora as their number one online source. Read More
Pandora closes in on 1 million Active Sessions, in Triton Digital monthlies
The October rankers for Internet radio show a large jump for Pandora, from about 885,000 Average Active Sessions in September to 975,564 in October. Another Triton Digital statistic, "Sessions Starts", was relatively flat for Pandora, moving from 343 million to 348.1 million.
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First Listen: BlackPlanetRadio.com
They’re calling it “the digital industry's first social radio website targeted towards African-Americans.” Interactive One, a division of Radio One, is offering a music discovery (from Songza’s 14.5 million song library) and social networking site (integrated with Facebook). With radio companies finding new ways to compete with online music ser…
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