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SiriusXM tops own expectations

Pay-radio service SiriusXM says that 2019 delivered almost 1 million subscribers over and above its 34 million subs-target for last year. Consequently, the radio broadcaster is raising its own guidance for 2020. SiriusXM doesn’t reveal its full financial numbers for 2019 until February 4th, but has told the market that its total paid subscriber base […]

January 15, 2020By Chris Forrester

StarzPlay partners with podcast specialist Finyal Media

StarzPlay, the SVoD service, has partnered with Finyal Media, the MENA Arabic production business specialised in podcast creation, to produce an Arabic podcast Series. The announcement follows StarzPlay’s increasing focus on Arabic content production on multiple digital mediums, having also announced its first original content series earlier this month. StarzPlay will collaborate with Finyal to […]

January 14, 2020

BBC Sounds draws record listeners

A surge in podcast listening, including big hits such as The Missing Cryptoqueen, That Peter Crouch Podcast and Tunnel 29, has helped drive record listeners to BBC Sounds. The BBC reports that its digital home for all audio now has around 3 million weekly users, up from 1.3 million in June. As well as the […]

December 23, 2019

DAB digital radio sales reach 82m globally

WorldDAB’s latest market report reveals that by the end of Q2 2019, over 82 million consumer and automotive DAB/DAB+ receivers had been sold in Europe and Asia Pacific – up from 71 million one year earlier. The report covers Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK. DAB is now firmly […]

December 16, 2019

Sony/Warner battle TuneIn over ‘UK infringements’

A copyright infringement dispute between Warner Music and Sony against streaming service TuneIn Radio, filed in 2017, alleges that some 800 unlicensed TuneIn music streams were available in the UK, is likely to go the UK’s Court of Appeal. A judgement by Judge Colin Birss back on November 1st favoured Warner and Sony and found […]

December 9, 2019

U2 to launch channel on SiriusXM and Pandora

Irish rock band U2 will create an exclusive radio channel on both SiriusXM and streaming service Pandora. The announcement was made by the band themselves, live from The Joshua Tree Tour stage at the Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo, Japan, with a cut-in from frontman Bono to Howard Stern on his SiriusXM channel “Howard 100,” […]

December 5, 2019By Chris Forrester

France: Médiamétrie radio & podcast audience measurement

Médiamétrie has launched audience measurement for catch-up radio (content listened to after broadcast) and native podcasts (original audio content). This measurement provides subscribers with key indicators on the audience of this content, namely the number of listeners, listening times and amounts, and listener profiles. It is based on a 3,000-strong panel of people aged 13 […]

November 21, 2019

Stingray Music secures major hospitality contract

Swedish streaming innovator Nenda has signed a deal with Stingray, a music, media and technology company, to provide on-demand entertainment from Stingray Qello, Stingray DJAZZ and Stingray Classica to the hospitality industry. The partnership aims to create exceptional ‘in-room’ TV-experiences for tourists and business travellers. Stingray is Montreal-based and reaches some 400 million subscribers in […]

November 20, 2019By Chris Forrester

XITE music app on Sky Q

Sky Q is bringing the best music apps together with the launch of the new XITE app –  an interactive music video platform where users can discover, curate and play music videos, all in one place. With the XITE music video app, music fans can experience a personalised video experience on the big screen. Customers […]

November 7, 2019By Nik Roseveare

SiriusXM up, Pandora down

US pay-radio operator SiriusXM reported revenues up 7 per cent for its Q3 trading and the broadcaster touched the $2 billion (€1.8bn) revenue mark for the first time ever, and helped by the consolidated results from its Pandora streaming division. Year-on-year subscriber growth (including self-paying subs) was 210.000 and taking its total base to more […]

November 4, 2019By Chris Forrester