Music streaming service Pandora had a bizarre day Thursday just before announcing its latest earnings report.
Its stock moved up and down so wildly — suddenly jumping from… [Read more on Mashable]
With newcomer Apple Music already taking a sizable bite out of the market, competing services Spotify and Pandora hope to differentiate themselves by amping up ways to help artists connect with their fans.
Spotify continues to refine its artist portal feature, which makes… [Read more on billboard]
Pandora, une des figures de proue de la radio sur internet, a présenté lundi une nouvelle fonctionnalité qui permet d’améliorer la personnalisation des choix musicaux, dans l’espoir de conserver ses utilisateurs face à une offre grandissante dans la musique à la demande.
Contrairement à la majorité des sites de streaming (flux sans téléchargement) comme Spotify, qui permettent à l’internaute de… [Lire la suite sur La Presse]
Le géant du streaming musical Pandora va racheter une partie des droits de propriété intellectuelle du site de streaming à la demande Rdio pour 75 millions de dollars. Autrefois valorisé 500 millions de dollars, ce dernier s’apprête de son côté à déposer le bilan. Avec la technologie développée par Rdio, le pionnier du secteur espère ainsi pouvoir résister à Spotify et se développer, enfin, à l’international…
Spotify has added a new feature called “In Residence,” which consists of podcast-like radio shows curated by musical artists. The service appears to be an attempt to compete on some level with Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio station, although the Spotify shows are not aired live.
As the music streaming wars continue to heat up, streaming services are looking to find ways to differentiate themselves from the competition. One of the most successfully-received aspects of… [Read more on Tech Times]
For years, Pandora and the music business have been at odds: Music labels (and some musicians) have complained that Pandora doesn’t pay enough for the songs it plays; Pandora says the opposite.
Now they have finally found some common ground: Both of them are… [Read more on re/code]
Video may have killed the radio star sometime in the 1980s, but the podcast Serial seems to have resurrected him.
A milestone in podcasting came in October 2014, almost 10 years after the birth of the first podcast, on the Tonight Show. This American Life host Ira Glass sat on Jimmy Fallon’s couch in October 2014 and, with the help of his elderly neighbor, explained how to download a podcast.
Glass’ visit and kitschy video were… [Read more on Mashable]
Amazon, Google and Pandora have joined forces to launch a coalition to oppose efforts from musicians, publishers and record labels to raise digital royalty rates from online services.
The move comes during a… [Read more on Music Week]
It’s no secret that the digital age hasn’t been kind to the music industry. Streaming services like Spotify, Rdio, and Pandora have buoyed a long-declining market with the support of eager music labels, but it seems those very… [Read more on The Verge]
For months, Apple has tried to find different ways to solidly monetize iTunes Radio, but it hasn’t been an easy task to accomplish. While the company does offer… [Read more on Engadget]
There’s no lack of choices when it comes to music subscription streaming services such as Beats, Pandora, Rdio, Spotify, and Xbox Music to name just a few. Even YouTube is getting into the groove with YouTube Music Key announced on Wednesday. It’s no surprise then, that Rdio is… [Read more on PC World]
I recently had time to catch up with Mad Genius Radio Founder Eric Neumann and CEO Max Fulton. Mad Genius Radio is a new startup breaking onto the radio scene with a bevy of unique features and a beautiful interface both via the web and their iOS/Android apps.
Mad Genius Radio started as nothing more than an idea roughly… [Read more on Tech Cocktail]
Streaming music platform Pandora has tried a lot of things to both raise its income and increase its subscriber base, but the company is getting especially aggressive with a brand new ad model that promises an… [Read more on Forbes]
Pandora’s free AMP service pulls back the curtain on data culled from tens of billions of hours of listening to help musicians market themselves smarter.
Pandora launched a program Wednesday opening up its data heap to artists, with the goal that no decent band must play to a crowd of 15 yawning people again.
Pandora, by far the Web’s top streaming-music… [Read more on C|Net]
In the business of audio entertainment, the big money is in music. But that has not stopped investors from getting excited about a less glamorous type of audio: the spoken word.
The 10-fold increase in the market capitalisation of Audioboom in just five months has highlighted this little-known companyas… [Read more onn The Financial Times]
Clear Channel, the nation’s biggest radio station owner, is broadcasting a new signal to listeners and advertisers. The San Antonio-based media company, owner of 840 radio stations, has changed its name to iHeartMedia, after its iHeartRadio online network that lets people listen to the likes of… [Read more on Newsfactor Business Report]
Big Data Audio Streaming: How Spotify And Pandora Use Data To Better Serve Customers
Companies such as Pandora and Spotify are examples of audio streaming services that employ Big Data extensively. It’s nothing new in the entertainment world, as Big Data is shaping the future of the movie industry as well. Similarly to the world of cinema, music streaming services stand to gain with… [Read more on CloudTweaks]
Radio | Remercié par France Inter en juin dernier, l’animateur compte reprendre son émission sur Internet. Il profitera de la prochaine Fête de L’Humanité pour mettre en place une campagne de souscriptions. Objectif : lancer son pure player le 21 janvier prochain.
A 11h30 ce mercredi 27 août, soit une demi-heure seulement après la très médiatique conférence de presse de rentrée de Radio France, Daniel Mermet tient la sienne propre à quelques… [Lire la suite sur Télérama]
Before Apple officially acquired Beats Electronics, many analysts speculated about alternative mergers.
Spotify was one of the first companies that came up, followed by Pandora, Bose and others within the music business. Now that the Beats deal is over, further merger speculation has died down, but… [Read more on Benzinga]
Digital music revenues are forecast to slow down over the coming five years due to the strength of the streaming model and the continued presence of piracy dogging the market.
Juniper Research figures showed that… [Read more on ITProPortal]
Vevo—a music-video website partly owned by Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Google Inc.—has partnered with a Portland-based startup to distribute content through online radio services, including Richard Branson’s Virgin Radio…
L’une de ces deux acquisitions vise à faire face à la montée en puissance de Pandora et Spotify qui grignotent des parts de marché à iTunes.
La longue liste des acquisitions d’Apple… [Lire la suite sur Les Echos]
The download is dithering, but is streaming music all it’s cracked up to be? Free or subscription-based services like Spotify, Deezer, Rdio and Pandora are all great, but they’re mostly either stuck on your… [Read more on TechRadar]
Stratégie et vision de la mutation programmée de la première radio de France par le directeur général de sa filiale digitale
Du rouge ; encore du rouge. Evidemment. La couleur donne le ton. Vous êtes bien chez RTL. Ca tombe bien, c’est… [Lire la suite sur Le Nouvel Economiste]
Shazam a repris contact avec nous pour nous apporter quelques précisions. L’entreprise nous indique ainsi que si la fonction de streaming intégrée est actuellement alimentée par Rdio uniquement, des « services additionnels seront ajoutés et annoncés au cours des prochaines semaines ». Comme nous l’indiquions à la fin de cette actualité, Spotify et Rdio ne seront pas… [Lire la suite sur Next INpact]
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