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Borrell: After Two Years Of No Growth, Local Ad Spend Will Spike In 2012

The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verge of a major rebound. The local researcher says that local...

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Spotify Launching Integrated Apps Within Its Platform

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration to a wider world of social networks and devices, arguing that...

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Get Ready For Another Streaming Music Service: The Ad-Free Rara.com

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 consumers using services like these today, there is clearly...

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Research: Internet Is UK's No. 2 News Source, But Only 3.8 Percent Pay

Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source – but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says. In an annual media habits survey by the Oliver & Ohlbaum consultancy, 75...

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RadioPlayer Teams Up With Audioboo To Offer Listen-Again Service

The pan-industry internet radio service RadioPlayer has joined forces with Audioboo to offer an instant listen-again service for its 300-plus stations. The tieup is likely to be of most benefit for...

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Industry Moves: Univision Radio; Precision Health; NBCU; Rocket Fuel

Here is a roundup of some of the latest executive-level hirings and exits in the world of digital media business… – Univision Radio: Evan Harrison has been appointed EVP of content and entertainment....

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Pandora, Not Radio, Doesn’t Understand Radio

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 stole our brand for a non-live, non-local, non-shared jukebox),...

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Court tosses Howard Stern’s $300 million claim against Sirius XM

Shock jock 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. In a ruling handed down on Monday, a New York state...

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It’s official: News consumption is all about social and mobile

Anyone who watches the way those around them consume the news, or thinks about their own news consumption habits, is probably well aware of how large a role social networks like Twitter and Facebook...

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Spotify hits 6 million paid users as market for music streaming heats up

Music subscriptions services, which provide an alternative to purchasing songs on sites like iTunes, continue to gain in popularity. One example is Sweden-based Spotify, which is expanding rapidly...

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Swell launches a Pandora for podcasts to help you decide where to tune in

I’ve never been a huge podcast fan — the ones I tried always took too long for me to get into. Plus, aside from This American Life and the GigaOM podcast, of course, I wasn’t sure what else was out...

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No more engagement rings: how Gracenote wants to personalize radio ads in...

Here’s the number one reason why I hate commercial radio: I got married eight years ago, but to this day, my car radio is bombarding me with ads for engagement rings. Every single time. Media...

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Radio Search Engine turns the world’s radio stations into a music jukebox

This is cool: Radio Search Engine, a new site launched out of beta this week by serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson, turns tens of thousands of radio stations into an easily searchable music jukebox....

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Pandora Touts 100 Million Users As Spotify, Clear Channel Loom

Fresh off its IPO, internet radio company Pandora (NYSE: P) touted its growing user-base and expanding partnerships during a meeting with an… Pandora Touts 100 Million Users As Spotify, Clear Channel...

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Pandora Shares Fall Sharply, Then Recover, As Spotify Hits the U.S.

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… Pandora Shares Fall Sharply, Then Recover, As Spotify Hits...

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Pop-Up Radio Potential: Australia Gets It, UK Fails

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,… Pop-Up Radio Potential: Australia Gets It, UK Fails...

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Spotify Launch Sponsors Pay $1 Million Each

We spoke with an executive very close to Spotify and several advertising executives to understand the company's strategy behind its hybrid a… Spotify Launch Sponsors Pay $1 Million Each originally...

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The Young Turks–MSNBC dispute is a cautionary tale

This week's drama between The Young Turks creator and host Cenk Uygur and MSNBC has a sad tinge of inevitability to it, given the compromises required by the mainstream media. The major twist is just...

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Wall Street Analysts Like Pandora, Investors Not So Sure

Pandora (NYSE: P) shares popped nearly four percent in pre-market trading Monday after several analysts issued bullish research reports on t… Wall Street Analysts Like Pandora, Investors Not So Sure...

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Sirius Profits Surge, Raises Expectations For Subscriber Numbers

Despite the aggressive growth of personalized, "online radio" offerings such as Pandora (NYSE: P) and Spotify, which recently arrived in the… Sirius Profits Surge, Raises Expectations For Subscriber...

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