Online music streaming service has launched a channel on Roku players and Roku TVs, giving subscribers access to its premium streaming music service on the big screen. With Deezer, users can stream any song, anytime. After a 3-month free trial, Deezer Premium+ is $9.99/month, and givess access to all the music tracks in high quality […]
Music streaming giant Pandora Media suffered a thumping fall in its share price November 3rd, by a worrying 27 per cent, following an earnings statement where Q3 revenues disappointed the market and ad-income was flat. The shares hit an all-time low of $5.37. Pandora is backed by pay-radio operator SiriusXM, which paid a total of […]
US pay-radio operator SiriusXM added 311,000 net new subs during its Q3 and taking the overall total for the year to date to more than 1 million. James Meyer, SiriusXM’s CEO, told analysts on the broadcaster’s conference call that it expected to achieve about 1.4 million net new subscribers this year. The broadcaster now has […]
TiVo has announced that BuzzAngle Music, an innovator in music consumption analytics, has licensed Music Metadata from TiVo. The combination of data analytics from BuzzAngle Music embedded with Music Metadata from TiVo directly connects consumption to recommendations, providing some of the most accurate research findings currently available in the industry. “Thanks to its vast metadata […]
WorldDAB’s latest market report reveals that, by the end of Q2 2017, almost 60 million consumer and automotive DAB/DAB+ receivers (58,432,000) had been sold in Europe and Asia Pacific – up from 48 million one year earlier. The report includes statistics on receiver sales, road and population coverage, household penetration and the number of national […]
The BBC iPlayer Radio app has been updated to include a personalised in-car listening experience for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, enabling drivers to safely enjoy BBC radio programmes whilst behind the wheel. The new, car-friendly view of the BBC iPlayer Radio app is comprised of four sections: Following: easy access to all radio shows […]
Pay-radio operator SiriusXM has concluded its $480 million “strategic investment” in music streaming service Pandora. The deal was first announced back on June 9th. Under the terms of the agreement, a subsidiary of SiriusXM purchased $172.5 million of Series A preferred stock upon execution of the agreement on June 9th 2017 and [September 22nd] purchased […]
A report by researchers at QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre shows that Australian consumers are still disadvantaged compared to consumers in the US when it comes to accessing digital media. Key findings of the Australian Access to Digital Media Markets report: Music albums are 24 per cent more expensive in Australia; games are 20 per […]
Advertisers in the UK are devoting more of their media budgets to digital channels, according to eMarketer’s latest estimates of UK ad spending share by media. Nearly half (49.6 per cent) of daily time with media by UK adults ages 18 and older will be dedicated to digital formats in 2017, eMarketer predicts, while almost […]
September 8th saw David Frear, CFO at pay-radio operator Sirius/XM. Speaking at a Bank of America/Merrill Lynch media conference, talk about the prospects for his business, and where growth would likely occur over the next 3-5 years. “I think it’s becoming more and more [about] the connected car. We think about what’s going to drive […]