SiriusXM launches Pandora NOW
April 5, 2019
By Chris Forrester
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM, and which also controls on-demand audio service Pandora, has launched Pandora NOW which will be presented as both a SiriusXM channel and Pandora interactive station and playlist for its combined audience of 100 millio listeners.
Pandora NOW features today’s ‘’hottest and most listened to new music on Pandora but will be delivered uniquely to both the SiriusXM and Pandora audiences. For SiriusXM listeners, Pandora NOW will be presented as a new curated channel (Channel 3), while Pandora users can experience Pandora NOW music as an interactive station with song skipping and thumbs up/down rating, or as a continually-updated playlist for Pandora Premium subscribers.’’
“Pandora NOW will be an amazing new experience for both SiriusXM and Pandora listeners,” said Scott Greenstein, President/CCO at SiriusXM. “We’re excited to combine, for the first time, the wealth of Pandora listener data with the proven curation expertise of our SiriusXM team to give our combined 100 million listeners a truly unique and unprecedented listening experience. Not only will Pandora NOW give listeners exclusive, up-to-the-moment access to the music people are streaming on Pandora the most, but it will let music fans influence which songs are played.”