A report shows that music subscription service Spotify continues to grow at a rapid pace. The growth validates Spotify’s business model but is also inviting a growing cluster of rivals. Read more »
New research from the Pew Center into news consumption habits shows that the impact of mobile and social continues to grow. Almost twice as many users got news from a mobile device compared with 2010, and almost three times as many got news from a social network. Read more at GigaOM »
Howard Stern can rant all he likes but he will not be paid a $300 million bonus after Sirius XM won a dispute over subscriber counts. Read more »
I’ve met Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora (NYSE: P). He’s a lovely man.
But, not only do I believe that Pandora is not radio (they st… Read more »
Here is a roundup of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business…
– Univision Radio: Eva… Read more »
The pan-industry internet radio service RadioPlayer has joined forces with Audioboo to offer an instant listen-again service for its 300-plu… Read more »
Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source – but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says. Read more »
Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million… Read more »
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration t… Read more »
The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verg… Read more »
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are… Read more »
RealNetworks has chosen Thomas Nielsen as its new president and CEO, succeeding interim CEO Mike Lunsford. He starts next week and is intend… Read more »
Bloomberg may still be battling with Comcast over better placement on its cable systems, but the financial news and information company is l… Read more »
More people appear to be listening to less BBC Radio through BBC iPlayer.
Within one week in March, average weekly minutes for radio listen… Read more »
Being the most popular is not a good enough business model, it seems, when it comes to music mobile apps. Pandora, the music-streaming app,… Read more »
Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC — it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the pr… Read more »
Univision, the Spanish-language media giant, has opened a new front in the long-running battle over where and how people can make copies of… Read more »
The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning. Read more »
It seemed like a no brainer back in November. If Bob Pittman was willing to return to radio after forays at MTV, AOL (NYSE: AOL), Time Warne… Read more »
Seven months after Vivian Schiller was ousted as president and CEO of NPR, the public radio network has turned to a public broadcast veteran… Read more »
Pandora (NYSE: P) is the latest company to stumble into the minefield of privacy lawsuits that are blowing up all over the tech industry. A… Read more »
Just a few weeks after landing in the U.S., European-based streaming music service Spotify has gotten an immediate shot in the arm by being… Read more »
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Internet radio provider Pandora is primarily known for its mobile apps, but as it looks to build up its ad offerings, it’s overhauled its we… Read more »
» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Signs Expanded Two-Year Streaming Deal With Discovery (paidContent)
» Andreessen’s Ning Finds… Read more »
Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) likes to tout its large and diverse offerings — though sometimes it’s hard to tell if the company is talking about i… Read more »
The UK is preparing to roll out a new, superfast mobile broadband service that would also more than double the amount of spectrum that is cu… Read more »
They may not have produced a band as big as The Beatles, and may bear some responsibility for the musical output of Claude Francois, but the… Read more »
For the most part, Pandora’s quarterly numbers show a company headed in the right direction, with revenue numbers up substantially along wit… Read more »
Pandora (NYSE: P), which has seen its stock price battered since the brief euphoria that surrounded its IPO pricing back in June, posted tri… Read more »
Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC’s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription mag… Read more »
Despite the aggressive growth of personalized, “online radio” offerings such as Pandora (NYSE: P) and Spotify, which recently arrived in the… Read more »
Pandora (NYSE: P) shares popped nearly four percent in pre-market trading Monday after several analysts issued bullish research reports on t… Read more »
We spoke with an executive very close to Spotify and several advertising executives to understand the company’s strategy behind its hybrid a… Read more »
Radio is going digital all over the world – on DAB Digital Radio in Europe and Australia, HD Radio in the United States, and via television,… Read more »
Pandora (NYSE: P) may have gone public just in the nick of time. With rival Spotify’s long-awaited U.S. arrival finally at hand, Pandora sha… Read more »
Fresh off its IPO, internet radio company Pandora (NYSE: P) touted its growing user-base and expanding partnerships during a meeting with an… Read more »
Absolute Radio has long been admirer of Spotify’s personalised audio ads. This spring, its advertising director wrote a piece on paidContent… Read more »
Years after CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) acquired Last.fm, the personalized streaming music service will be added to Radio.com, the broadcast… Read more »
Research released this week from Nielsen showed that Android is continuing its domination of the smartphone scene in the U.S. — it now make… Read more »
