Shoutcast relaunches with new hosted streaming service
Radionomy has relaunched Shoutcast and is now offering free hosted broadcasting with ad monetization.
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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 st…
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-plu…
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.
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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 verg…
As Cable TV News Wars Heat Up, Bloomberg Builds ‘Live TV’ Placement On iPad
Bloomberg may still be battling with Comcast over better placement on its cable systems, but the financial news and information company is l…
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Missing: 30 Percent Of The BBC’s Online Radio Traffic
More people appear to be listening to less BBC Radio through BBC iPlayer.
Within one week in March, average weekly minutes for radio listen…
BBC Cuts: Nearly 2,000 Jobs To Go
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.
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The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
» NYT Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International; IHT Paywall Coming (paidContent)
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The Morning Lowdown 09-21-11
» Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) Signs Expanded Two-Year Streaming Deal With Discovery (paidContent)
» Andreessen’s Ning Finds…
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Deezer Streaming Music Service Launching In UK
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…
Pandora’s Kennedy: We Will Gradually Increase Audio Ad Inventory
For the most part, Pandora’s quarterly numbers show a company headed in the right direction, with revenue numbers up substantially along wit…
Pandora Revenues Jump Triple Digits; Chance Of Breaking Even In 2012
Pandora (NYSE: P), which has seen its stock price battered since the brief euphoria that surrounded its IPO pricing back in June, posted tri…
BBC Bows Out Of Print For £121 Million, Sells Magazine Business To Exponent
Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC’s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription mag…
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…
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,…
Absolute Radio Will Serve Personalised Online Audio Ads
Absolute Radio has long been admirer of Spotify’s personalised audio ads. This spring, its advertising director wrote a piece on paidContent…
Apps Dominate Mobile Data, But You Can Also See The Cloud Appeal For Apple
Research released this week from Nielsen showed that Android is continuing its domination of the smartphone scene in the U.S. — it now make…
Radioplayer Attracts 5.7 Million Monthly Listeners
Radioplayer, the ambitious digital radio service backed by the BBC and commercial stations, attracted 5.7 million listeners in May, accordin…
How One Reinvented Radio Firm Is Leading the Brit Pack
Twenty years after it started out in radio production, British digital agency Somethin’ Else is making waves with its innovative iPhone games — and representing a new generation of creative technology firms that are ready to step up and make it big.
The Morning Lowdown 04-25-11
» The Playstation Network outage that began last Wednesday continued through the weekend, as Sony (NYSE: SNE) rebuilds the networ…
UK Radio Industry’s Online JV Has Launched
The UK’s radio industry has launched a jointly-operated single destination for playing live and on-demand radio online.
The Morning Lowdown 02.24.2011
» To punish Overstock.com for artificially boosting its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) search results, Google has dropped the retailer’s sit…
Pandora Files IPO With $100 Million In Mind
Personalized radio streamer Pandora has filed for its long-expected IPO and is seeking to raise $100 million from its stock sale, according…
How Radio Vets Rebooted As Podcast Pioneers
Ustream is betting on Adam Carolla to be the live-video streaming service’s first pay-per-view partnership. Lucky for them there’s another a…
Radio Industry Thinks Smartphone Listening Is Growing Nicely
The UK radio industry’s Rajar group has released another set of stats it says shows growing consumption of its programming via online platfo…
Townsquare Media’s Wilson Adds Former AOL Colleagues
Two months after joining local media network Townsquare Media, ex-AOL (NYSE: AOL) content head Bill Wilson has brought along several former…
We7 Repositions, Saying Users Prefer Radio To On-Demand
Do users really want unlimited digital options? We7, a British online music service part-funded by Peter Gabriel, is making a strategy switc…
Video: UK Radio Player Preview
Here is the web-wide radio console being built by the BBC together with commercial radio stations, due for a December launch…
The Morning Lowdown 10.14.10
» Sometimes saying sorry is not enough… A day after Lee Abrams, the Tribune
T-Mobile USA Sticks With Family-Friendly Theme For The New myTouch
T-Mobile USA is unveiling a third edition of its myTouch franchise today, which has been enhanced by a team of T-Mobile developers to create…
The Morning Lowdown 10.01.10
» The Social Network, the dramatic account of the early rise of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, has gotten mostly rave reviews as i…
Marketron Buys SMS Ad Network mSnap
Marketron, which sells sales and billing software to radio and TV stations, is expanding into mobile with the acquisition of mSnap. mSnap’s…
Ex-AOL Content Chief Bill Wilson Joins Townsquare Media
Former AOL (NYSE: AOL) content head Bill Wilson is joining local media network Townsquare Media. Wilson left AOL in May after CEO Tim Armstr…
First Look: The Portable US Open
As luck would have it, I was on the go when the U.S. leg of the tennis Grand Slam started Monday, providing a good chance to test the live s…
Q2 Rajars: Still No Boom In Online Listening
Just 2.9 percent of radio listening is done on the internet, according to the industry’s Q2 Rajars.
That’s slowly up from 2.2 percent in Q2…
The Sun Shuts Its Internet Radio Station
By John Plunkett and Mark Sweney: The Sun has pulled the plug on its Jon Gaunt-fronted internet radio show SunTalk after just over a year.…
We7 Will Take News Streams From GMG Radio
By Mark Sweney: GMG Radio has struck a deal with We7 to supply news and entertainment content to the millions of users of the online music s…
GMG Buys UBC’s MXR, Takes Its iTunes Tagging Service
By Mark Sweney: UBC Media has sold its stake in radio multiplex MXR to Guardian Media Group and struck a deal to allow listeners across the…
Playdio Squeezes Podcasts In To Spotify
By Chris Salmon: With a breezy “Hello, Spotify people”, Phill Jupitus added a new string to the streaming service’s bow last week. Those wer…
BBC Tries ‘Dollar-A-Week’ Radio Mobile App In U.S.
The public-service BBC’s app plans may be on hold in its native UK until its regulating body checks for anti-competitive effects – but, outs…
Radium: A No-browser Internet Radio Player
Radium is a simple, unobtrusive Internet radio player for Mac that sits in your menu bar. I listen to the radio most of the day while working, and I really like Radium; it’s a neat solution that doesn’t require you to use an extra browser tab.
BBC 6 Music’s Online Audience Soars After Closure Threat
By John Plunkett: The BBC’s threatened digital radio station 6 Music has enjoyed a big audience increase with a 50 percent rise in online li…
BlogTalkRadio Raises $1.9 Million Second Round
Live webcasting service BlogTalkRadio has raised a $1.9 million second round funding, Techcrunch reported. The company plans to use the proc…
Jelli Raises $2 Million For Crowdsourced Radio
Jelli has raised $2 million from a group of angel investors for its service, which lets users dictate what songs they want to hear on tradit…
Pandora Partners With Pioneer On Internet Radio For Cars
Streaming music provider Pandora has struck a deal with electronics manufacturer Pioneer that will connect the internet radio service to use…
Arbitron Speeds Up Plans To Measure Cell-Phone-Only Households By Next Spring
Arbitron is moving up its target date to start including more “cell-phone-only” households as part of its media measurement diary system. Th…
Research: Online Radio Languishing Compared With Web Video
Radio’s Rajar measuring group is nothing if not optimistic. After surveying just 977 people, who have already told it they listen to online…
Karmazin: Sirius XM Could Team Up With WorldSpace
Over the last year, Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) has come to the rescue of two satellite radio companies: the U.S. dominant Sirius XM (NSDQ:…
XM Founder Steps Down As Sirius XM Chairman
Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) Chairman Gary Parsons is resigning from the company’s board; Parsons co-founded XM Satellite Radio, which merged with…
Sirius XM Adds Subscribers; Expects A Better 2010
Sirius XM Radio (NSDQ: SIRI), which has taken a hit over the last year due to the fall in car sales, has a bullish outlook for 2010. In repo…
SeeSaw Appoints Commercial Chief; Bigmouthmedia’s New CEO; TBWA Agency President Leaves
— SeeSaw: Arqiva has hired former Channel 4 business development manager Matt Rennie as the commercial head of its forthcoming consumer VOD…
Forecast: Online Radio Revenues Will Jump 20 Percent Next Year
As terrestrial radio ad dollars continue to shrink, the adoption of online radio by listeners and marketers will push the web side into doub…
UK Mobile Radio Listening On The Up
By Chris Tryhorn: Increasing numbers of people in the UK are using their mobile phones to listen to FM radio, especially those between the a…
Bonfire Of The Managers: BBC Cutting 100 Exec Jobs; Pay, Bonuses Slashed
When the BBC says it’s finding ways to cut back costs so budgets match the carnage in the commercial sector, it means business. The BBC Trus…
Broadband Content Bits: Zoopla; Guardian.co.uk; Canal+; CompareMyRadio; Zavvi; U2 Gig; Tradeclips
— Zoopla: The property site is upgrading all its sites with Zoopla’s property search database and technology. Zoopla, which uses public dat…
How To Get Readers To Pay: Carrots Vs Sticks
The big debate over pay walls is getting down to the fine points; as opposed to grand theological, existential questions, it’s really more o…
The iPhone Wrap: Apple’s New Radio App; Multi-Tasking Dreaming; App Store Complaints
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is working on iPhone radio app: Apple is developing its own iPhone radio.app, according to a tip sent to 9to5mac.com. The…
Industry Moves: Goom Radio CEO Williams Resigns
Goom Radio CEO Rob Williams is leaving the heavily-funded internet radio startup, paidContent has learned. Williams, who was previously the…
Triton Digital Media Acquires Online Radio Tracker Ando Media
Online radio services provider Triton Digital Media has bought web radio audience measurement firm Ando Media, the companies said in an e-ma…
Broadband Content Bits: iPlayer on PS3; Virgin Media; Stream5's VC Deal; BBC Five Live Site
— BBC-PS3: The Beeb’s released an updated version of the iPlayer for Sony (NYSE: SNE) PS3s. FM&T online controller Anthony Rose says the qu…
Weekend Reading: Intentional Nonprofit News
The New York Review of Books has met the future of journalism and it’s buried inside a 5,200-word essay that I’m finally getting through. Jo…
Broadband Content Bits: BT Vision Gets Bollywood; German Online Radio; Amino's PVR Release
— MoMedia: The Endemol-based online content distributor is bringing a Bollywood-themed channel to the BT (NYSE: BT) Vision IPTV platform vi…
UBC Media Buying Marketer Radio Lynx
After selling off its own traffic news unit in February, radio services group UBC Media is now buying Radio Lynx, a company that makes custo…
Cox Restructures Media Group, Merges Newspapers, TV, Radio
Cox Media Group, which was the product of a reorg by parent Cox Enterprises to bring its newspaper, TV, radio and digital properties closer…
Sirius XM Offers $250 Million Of Debt To Pay Off Liberty
Sirius XM Radio (NSDQ: SIRI) is offering $250 million of debt, in order to pay off money it owes Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), which saved th…
Ando Media, Spacial Merge To Expand Online Radio Customer Base
Online radio audience measurement and ad management firm Ando Media has merged with Spacial Audio, which offers a variety of services, inclu…
Public Radio, Music Industry Reach Agreement On Online Royalty Rates
Another week, another agreement on web streaming royalty rates. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has reached a deal with SoundExchang…
Earnings: Sirius XM Ups Guidance, Subscriber Losses Smaller Than Expected
Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) cut its losses during the quarter, as it benefited from savings due to the merger between Sirus and XM a year ago. Ac…
Old Radio Meets New: Clear Channel Subsidiary To Sell Ads On Pandora
Online radio streaming service Pandora has found a big (but potentially controversial) advertising partner in *Clear Channel*, the conglomer…
Mobile Content Bits: New BlackBerry; NPR Mobile; Opera Page Views; NFL On Pre; Qualcomm Widgets
— T-Mobile USA gets new Curve: Research In Motion said today the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 will be available via T-Mobile USA on August 5.…
FlyCast Raises $2.1 Million For Mobile Radio
Radio streaming service FlyCast has raised $2.1 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. A spokesman would not say who had…
Google Radio’s Assets Being Bought by WideOrbit
For a change, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is selling off something: Google Radio, its online radio ad buying service which didn’t gain traction in t…
Updated: Pandora Raises $35 Million After Near-Death Experience
Talk about a comeback. Not only has online music streaming service Pandora settled its long-standing disagreement with music labels over the…
Budget 09: FBT Gone; 5% Excise Duty On Set Top Boxes; Higher DAVP Rates To Stay; Reactions
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee delivered a budget that brought some cheer and some additional taxation to the media sector. Key points:…
Rajar: Regular Internet Radio Usage Grows To 3.9 Million
It’s got a long way to go to become the standard method of radio listening, but the number of regular internet radio listeners is growing fa…
Research: Online Took A Fifth Of UK Ad Spend In ’08
There aren’t many advertising surveys for 2008 left to report — and given the sad tale they tell about the UK advertising market, most o…
Sirius’ XM Debt Sale Attracts Surprisingly Strong Demand; Subs Get Hit With Royalty Rate Hike
The XM Satellite unit of Sirius XM Radio (NSDQ: SIRI) decided to raise its $350 million debt sale to $525 million as it sought to meet unexp…
Sirius’ XM Division Offers $350 Million In Debt
The XM Satellite unit of Sirius XM Radio (NSDQ: SIRI) (Nasdaq: SIRI) is offering $350 million to help is parent repay its heavy debt load. T…
Don’t Adjust Your Dial: Sirius iPhone App Launches Without Howard Stern
It looks like Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) intends its new iPhone app as a very limited version of its satellite service. Users who download the…
Sirius iPhone App Being Released Thursday
As promised back in March, Sirius XM (NSDQ: SIRI) is finally ready to release its iPhone app tomorrow, Reuters reported. The app will be fr…
BT To Video Sites: There’s ‘No Free Ride’ On Bandwidth
The bandwidth wars are not only back, they’re escalating: BT (NYSE: BT) has told video streaming sites that they will have to contribute to…
Europe Round-Up: Russia’s Microsoft Probe; Dailymotion Stats; Deutsche Telekom IPTV; Fremantle CEO
— Russia vs Microsoft: Russia’s anti-trust authority has launched an investigation after alleging that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has cut its s…
Industry Moves: Absolute Digital Marketer, Game Finance, Hulu International
— Absolute Radio: The station formerly known as Virgin Radio has appointed Dan Thornton as its first digital marketing manager. The ex-Baue…
Rajar Q109: Internet Radio Listening Share Comes In Flat
More and more people may be listening to internet radio, but stations online are barely attracting a greater share of listening hours than a…
@ Radio Reborn: New Online Player, Nokia DAB, Rules Call
The BBC and commercial radio operators have confirmed earlier-reported plans to team for an online player initiative. GMG Radio, Global Radi…
Broadband Content Bits: NBCU Seeks 20-Somethings, Winamp Adds 7Digital, Arqiva Bags DAB
— NBCU International: The broadcaster has started a new site targeting 20-something women. Kalimocho will be a “younger sister site” to the…
Radio's Right to Free Tunes Is on the Rocks
There are hearings this week in Congress on whether non-satellite radio stations should pay a performance royalty for the music they play.…
Absolute Radio Says Hello To The Blipvert
By John Plunkett: Hearing a U2 song on Absolute Radio – the station formerly known as Virgin Radio – is nothing new. What is, however, is he…
UBC Finally Flogs Traffic Biz In Restructured Deal, Now Focused On Production, Interactive
Radio technology group UBC Media’s sale of its traffic, news and entertainment division to Global Traffic Networks (GTN) of America is fina…
Absolute Radio Trumpets Online Stats After Radio Listening Collapse
Absolute Radio is trying to put a brave face on the Q4 Rajars, the radio industry’s flaky yet revered regular metrics system, after losing n…
New Group Aims For Web Radio Standards; Intel Follows Apple’s Pure Investment
2009 could be the year internet-streamed audio and video could really become a reality on radios and TVs in the UK. On top of the BBC’s Proj…
Apple Takes A Stake In UK DAB Radio Maker Imagination
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has quietly bought a 3.6 percent stake in Hertfordshire-based Imagination Technologies for £3.19 million, a move that ma…
Earnings: UBC Salvages Cliq For Internet Radio, Cuts Costs Amid Profit Fall
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RF Modules Planned for Future Apple Gadgets?
A new proposal from Apple, highlighted today by AppleInsider, hints at their desire to provide ubiquitous connectivity to the internet through a…
UBC’s Commercial Unit Sell-Off Killed Off By Ad Downturn
After a protracted and uncertain few months of negotiation, the £15 million sale of UBC Media’s commercial division to US radio group Globa…
Ad Downturn Prompts Rethink On UBC’s News Sell-Off
The gathering advertising recession is now forcing a re-consideration of some media M&A activity. US-based Global Traffic Network’s (GTN) £…
Internet Radio Firm Reciva Gets Funding, Hires Chairman
Reciva, a Cambridge firm which makes silicon-mounted software to receive internet radio, appointed ex Chrysalis Radio CEO Phil Riley its new…
Local Radio Ad Sales In Reverse; Another Medium Flirts With Recession
Need more evidence that UK media is entering an advertising recession? Well, commercial radio revenue between April and June was more than 1…
Earnings: UBC Hit By Cliq Costs, Preps For Possible Sell-Off
Digital radio services outfit UBC Media wrote off almost £2 million after winding down its Cliq mobile/online music downloads service last…
Now Even Radio Feels Threatened By BBC Local Plans
It’s one thing local newspapers grumbling about the BBC’s proposal to add 20 minutes of daily news video for its 65 existing local sites – b…
Rajar Desperate To Show Internet Helps, Not Hinders Radio
UK online radio grew from 8.1 million weekly listeners in November to 9.4 million through April and May, according to Rajar’s latest questio…
EMI Unlocks All Its Artists’ Performances On BBC; Extensive Marketing Collaboration In The Works
EMI Music has agreed to allow the BBC to release its artists’ TV and radio performances that are currently in the broadcaster’s archives. Th…
UPDATE: Cliq Fails To Click, Mobile/Radio Music Service Closes With £2 Million Loss
Well, that was embarrassing. UBC Media’s Cliq mobile/radio music download service is shutting down today, a year after the radio outfit inve…
Broadband Content Bits: MySpace ‘Radio’; WiiWare; BBC Vlog/iPlayer
— MySpace: MySpace UK is doing it first branded “radio show” – the weekly, hour-long Mars Planets Radio (the clue’s in the name), hosted by…
UK Bits: PlayerX/Paramount, Holy Moly TV, TalkSport Mag, MySpace Games, CNET Mobile
— Player X/Paramount: Mobile media producer Player X has been enlisted by Paramount Mobile Entertainment to produce games and short video s…
AOL Radio Launches – Last.fm By Another Name
AOL (NYSE: TWX) has started replicating its recently launched Last.fm-powered AOL Radio in its European markets, starting with France, Germa…
Earnings: Lagardere Q1 Revenue Flat Overall, Digital Rises Sharply
French media giant Lagardere reported earnings for the three months ending 31 March 2008 on Tuesday. Consolidated revenues for the entire gr…
Last.fm Agrees To Pay Musicians For Web Radio Streams
Last.fm tells us it has agreed to pay performance royalties to the PPL collection society for songs it streams over its web radio service in…
Online Radio: 23.7 Percent Listen, Podcast Users Fickle: Research
The fall in radio audiences has long been blamed on the growth of online and iPods amongst younger listeners. In the week the latest Rajar f…
BBC Integrates Online Radio With iPlayer
The BBC has rebadged its web radio player “iPlayer Radio” ahead of radio being fully integrated in to the online catch-up TV offering in 2…
France’s Multimedia Radio Choice Ruffles Feathers
France has decided to eschew the DAB+ standard for its digital radio rollout and use the DMB format more commonly associated with mobile TV…
Broadband Content Bits: BBC Re-Thinks My Local, Freeview Plans VOD
– BBC: The BBC may have dropped plans to deliver local broadband TV thanks its cash shortfall, but it will continue with its plan to pump £…
UBC’s Cliq Hybrid Mobile Music-Radio Service To Launch This Week
UK radio and technology group UBC Media Group is launching its Cliq mobile-radio hybrid music service that will let DAB digital radio listen…
BBC Launches First Commercial Music Podcasts, Tracks Limited To 30 Seconds
BBC Radio has launched some of its first podcasts around commercial recorded music, though its licensing agreements with the industry severe…
Young And Old Leaving TV, Radio, Papers For Internet: Research
A watershed moment, indicating the internet is now swallowing up other media – 82 percent of Europeans aged 16 to 24 now use the internet be…
