Comments on: Pandora On Track For $40 Million Revs This Year; More Premium Options Coming

By: dave

dave — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:43:47 +0000

I'm not sure most people would call the recent royalty ruling "favorable" to anyone but SoundExchange.

By: ed dunn

ed dunn — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:22:08 +0000

Rockitz,

Not hard to look up over the web. I might be off, it may be 100,000 instead of 10,000. But you threw me off with your metric.

I do not understand why you used the listener/year metric against an advertising revenue model such as terrestrial radio stations.

I feel the listener/year metric should be used against a paid subscription with premium add-on model, such as a XM radio service.

By: Rockitz LLC

Rockitz LLC — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:35:26 +0000

1. They had to discontinue the service in Europe. That's not progress.
2. 30 million registered users equals 3 million actual users if their lucky.

Ed Dunn: your V-103 info doesn't add up. You're saying that they average $4000 per listener/year??? Don't think so.

By: ed dunn

ed dunn — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:28:49 +0000

V-103, an urban radio station here in Atlanta with 10,000 terrestial listeners generate $40 million in revenue annually.

Did someone say Pandora has 30 million registered users? :p

By: Adam Wexler

Adam Wexler — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:01:43 +0000

they've built a great tribal following, but before this year & the new royalty settlements, when did pandora think they would be able to point to significant revenues?