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Why Slacker is Radio’s Best-Kept Secret
How can terrestrial radio partner with online radio for the benefit of both? That’s just one topic tackled by Duncan Orrell-Jones, CEO of...
mramsey1
Nov 19, 2015
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Pandora to Exclusively Stream Serial Podcast – and What It Means
Beginning later this month, Pandora becomes the exclusive streaming home for the uber-popular Serial podcast. And starting next year,...
mramsey1
Nov 3, 2015
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You are Invited to hivio 2015 – the Audio Future Festival
There are events for radio and online radio and digital and local revenue and commercial and public and Christian broadcasters, but...
mramsey1
Feb 10, 2015
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4 Ways iTunes Radio Changes Everything
This post was originally published by PBS’s MediaShift and is reprinted here with their permission. I wrote it shortly before last week’s...
mramsey1
Sep 14, 2013
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I’m Going to Stage a Secret Radio Meeting
…much like the one being staged in “secret” at the NAB Radio Show right now. And like that meeting, the purpose of mine is to plot...
mramsey1
Sep 19, 2012
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Here Comes the New Dashboard
So what’s in store for the auto dashboard of tomorrow? It may not be whatever’s on the drawing board in Detroit (or in the picture...
mramsey1
May 29, 2012
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The Limits of Personalization
Okay, so I have weird tastes. I’m the guy whose favorite dishes in restaurants are discontinued for lack of interest. And my music...
mramsey1
Feb 17, 2012
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R.I.P. Arbitron’s Total Audience Measurement
Earlier this week, a number of leading broadcasters piped in on a scenario whereby Pandora and other online radio services would be...
mramsey1
Dec 20, 2011
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Pandora’s Ads “are as Valuable as Traditional Stations'” Ads
That’s the word from newly public Pandora on their first-ever quarterly report. As GigaOm writes: Pandora posted total revenue of $67...
mramsey1
Aug 27, 2011
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New survey shows when FM is built-in to mobile phones, most consumers don’t use it
How many US radio listeners already have FM built-in to their mobile phones? And how often do they use it? How does this compare to the...
mramsey1
Jul 27, 2011
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How Radio Can Battle Pandora – Part 2: Beyond Music
(This is part 2 of the post. For part 1, go here) Recently, the radio industry has obsessed on a few low hanging strengths relative to...
mramsey1
Jun 1, 2011
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How Radio Can Battle Pandora – Part 1: Wake Up Radio
When broadcasters take a break from diminishing Pandora long enough to recognize that they have to worry about it, how do they respond?...
mramsey1
May 31, 2011
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“Pandora is Not Radio,” says Radio Ink. Oh yes it is.
From Slacker’s Jonathan Sasse in the LA Times: “If you look at where broadcast radio is going, it looks like they’re trying to become...
mramsey1
May 17, 2011
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Inside Pandora’s Evolving Strategy
Will Pandora expand to spoken word (I hate that term passionately) content? Not any time soon, I think. But here’s the take from the New...
mramsey1
Feb 16, 2011
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Is Radio’s Future Pandora’s Present?
Will the future of radio be personalizable, like Pandora? No. But with an audience craving music and happy to tailor and tweak that...
mramsey1
Feb 1, 2011
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The Evolving Economics of Online Radio – a talk with Triton’s Mike Agovino
Does radio have a future in the world of online radio? Or is this a future that belongs to the pure-plays – the Pandoras and the...
mramsey1
Dec 13, 2010
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5 Reasons Sirius/XM does not need to fear Pandora
Pandora and other online radio pure-plays want to be in the car, and that will mean trouble for Sirius/XM, right? After all, Pandora et....
mramsey1
Dec 11, 2010
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The State of Online Radio
What’s new in online radio and what are the implications for advertising? That was the topic in a recent conference call hosted for a...
mramsey1
Oct 21, 2010
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Slacker adds On-Demand Features
In part one we discussed the future of online radio – especially the shape online radio will take in your automobiles. Here we complete...
mramsey1
Sep 19, 2010
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The Future of Online Radio – Talking with Slacker’s Jonathan Sasse
Talk to some broadcasters and they’ll claim that mobile device manufacturers hate online radio because of the bandwidth usage. Not so,...
mramsey1
Sep 12, 2010
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