Posts Tagged ‘trends’

Pandora Keeps Chugging Along…

Monday, February 22nd, 2010


Blu-Ray devices! Table top radios! Ford partnerships!

Just a bit of the excitement buzzing around the corridors of streaming online-radio service Pandora in 2010. Pandora, now ten years old, churned out its first profitable quarter EVER in December of 2009 – with revenues of $50 million. And get this – $30 million of that stack of cash went to artists in the form of royalties! The service is 40 million-subscribers strong, and is seeing 35,000 new iPhone subscribers daily (250,000 on Christmas day 2009 ALONE). Online music services all over the net struggle to stay afloat due to advertising, lack of user-loyalty, and an overall lack of ability to keep labels happy with royalties. What are they doing different? CNNMoney reports just what is keeping Pandora alive, and why the music industry is choosing to embrace it over so many “On-Demand” digital music servers.

the times we live in

Monday, October 12th, 2009

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As if we need more reminders that the music industry is going down the tubes, an industry panel at the Digital Music Forum West in Hollywood has given us more evidence that the industry is still slowing without an immediate remedy.

One fact that the panelists, NPD Group’s Russ Crupnick, BigChampagne’s Eric Garland and TopSpin’s James Lamberti, bring up is less people are buying music and the people who do are spending less.  Not a very good sign for the industry that is still dependent on sales and units sold.

We always hear that the music industry is not doing so well and this blog by John Healey has some hard numbers and facts that help us understand why. I suggest you read it, as we can all learn from these facts and use them to our advantage.

Tuberadio.fm Saves Music Videos!

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

No...not this kind

No...not this kind

TUBERADIO.fm, the next generation YouTube for music fans. It seems like everyone is trying to come up with something better and more easy to use in terms of streaming music. iTunes, Internet radio, social networking sites and YouTube are some of the top ways music listeners stream their favorite tunes or sift through to find new likings. Each of these sites is constantly going through rennovations and re-launches in order to accommodate to the latest technology and needs of music consumers. Tuberadio.fm to the rescue!!!

Tuberadio.fm takes special characteristics from all these favorable sites into one. It allows music fans to look up  artists and stream videos, hard to find tracks, exclusive content (whatever that means) as well as album listings coordinating with the videos in the search results. You are able to create play lists with just the click of a button. And just like all the rest of these site types…your play list can be accessed from any computer hooked to the internet! WOW!!! There are also several social networking features.

Tuberadio.fm seems like a great idea and will probably suit the needs of many music fans who enjoy watching official music videos. It feel the idea is rather redundant. I went to the site and was very impressed by the design and navigation…it is set up to resemble rather a more polished YouTube with more emphasis on play list itself. I expected to have a plethora of music videos pop up in my search results but it displayed the same videos I could find on YouTube with less choices. Everyone has their preferences on streaming music so who knows maybe in the next few months yours will be Tuberadio.fm….OR it could flop just like MTV’s, aka RTV (R=reality) attempt to broadcast live concerts again…it just did not happen…is the music video dead?!

Check out the whole article from Mi2N