Comments on: Pandora: "Royalty Crisis Is Over" for Internet Radio Companies

By: Bandwidth.com and Verizon Just Made VoIP Sustainable : Broadband News and Analysis «

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:35:37 +0000

[...] cost basis for its business and thus help other VoIP companies it serves do the same. Much like the agreement with the SoundExchange helped Pandora, the online radio station figured out the costs of providing streaming music to users so it could [...]

By: Pandora Raises Funding From GGV Capital and Allen & Co.

Pandora Raises Funding From GGV Capital and Allen & Co. — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:42:53 +0000

[...] raised $35 million just last summer in a round led by Greylock Capital that coincided with it securing a long-term royalty deal for Internet [...]

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Radio: The Local Voice | Thank You, Advertising! — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:57:16 +0000

[...] hard times early on in the company’s life), the firm most recently experienced a successful political win with the negotiating organization SoundExchange that effectively lowered the enormous royalty rates [...]

By: Pandora: Now Playing Everywhere – GigaOM

Pandora: Now Playing Everywhere – GigaOM — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:45:18 +0000

[...] percent of the opportunity.” I find it amusing that only a couple of years ago, Pandora was fighting for its life, thanks to the draconian policies of the music industry. Now it is audaciously viewing itself as [...]

By: Sailort

Sailort — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:13:40 +0000

$36 bucks a year is a bargan. Artists work hard and Pandora puts them out there for us to listen to. You can not be cheap forever!

By: Pandora Is Coming to Your Car « Media Maniac

Pandora Is Coming to Your Car « Media Maniac — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:37:56 +0000

[...] service to a mobile one, with smartphone adoption driving significant subscriber growth. Having cheated the hangman and stabilized its cost structure this summer, thanks to a licensing agreement forged after an [...]

By: Pandora Is Coming to Your Car – GigaOM

Pandora Is Coming to Your Car – GigaOM — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:07:50 +0000

By: yeliyayue

yeliyayue — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:50:26 +0000

i did a google search just now cause i was upset that pandora wanted me to pay ****ing 99 cents to play more then 40hrs of music a month!!! but after reading this i realize i could be some sap!! paying 15 times that much for music i dont even want to listen to, or i could use my god damn walmart prepaid credit card that i loaded with change from the seats in my car, to stream the best dam music i ever heard from a cable i got from radio shack hooked up to my comp going to my fin awesome radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yes i am drinking right now… but do you think im gonna wake up in the morning and be like f*** you pandora!!! or am i gonna be like im sry pandora!! here’s 3 quarters a dime 2 nickels and 4 cents…….

By: Check-up Time for Digital Music

Check-up Time for Digital Music — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:22:41 +0000

[...] radio: A new royalty rate agreement this summer stabilized market leader Pandora and its ilk for the next few years. Pandora’s [...]

By: Updated: Pandora Raises $35M

Updated: Pandora Raises $35M — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:57:44 +0000

[...] Media has raised $35 million in new funding, peHUB is reporting, just two days after the company celebrated the establishment of a royalty deal that ends years of negotiation with record labels and content [...]

By: Adam Neelo

Adam Neelo — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:57:54 +0000

I won’t use pandora anymore. Bye pandora, last.fm here I come!

By: Devan

Devan — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:35:40 +0000

But does this fix the issue of them not being able to stream outside of the US? I have no objection to spending real $$$ with these streaming providers, but have always been hemmed in by the obtuse laws preventing them from providing their content outside the US borders…