Nielsen Reports: Radio is Still Where Most Americans Hear New Music First

Surprised? … But it looks like YouTube is gaining  REUTERS – Video hasn’t yet killed the radio star after all, although YouTube has taken over as the place where most teens listen to music, according to a report released on Tuesday. Nielsen’s Music 360 report found that radio is still the place where most people […]

A Dramatic Rise in Internet Radio Usage All Because of the Smartphone

More People Are Doing What You Already Knew, but now here are some numbers… Tom Webster Vice President of Strategy and Marketing at Edison Research writes in his blog:-This year, we are reporting that the weekly usage of Internet radio (which includes both the online streams of terrestrial broadcasters and streams from pure-play streamers such as Pandora) […]

This Can’t be Legal? Spotify, the Popular Internet Music Service from Europe Comes to the U.S.

It’s like going to a record store buteven better… (What’s a record store?) It doesn’t play something similar to the song you want like Pandora, or a 30 to 60 second clip of the song like iTunes–it plays the whole song or album. You can find any song you want, and share what you’re listening […]

>Making the Case for FM on Your Mobile Phone

> FM Radio Does Not Drain Your Battery or Eat Up Your Data Plan like a Streaming App Does… Really? This sounds like a great selling point that consumers should demand if radio is ready to diversify its programming. But it also makes the case to deter manufacturers from incorporating FM into the phones they […]