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What Radio REALLY needs to learn from Pandora
So what’s the secret the radio industry needs to learn from Pandora? Is it the importance of personalization or technology or the role of...
mramsey1
Jun 23, 2011
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Yes, Pandora is “Radio”
It’s a question vexing many broadcasters, especially those charged with leading the radio industry: Is Pandora “radio” or is it something...
mramsey1
May 8, 2011
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Online Radio just became More Legit
Last week the Media Rating Council bestowed their accreditation on Triton Digital Media’s (formerly AndoMedia’s) measurement platform for...
mramsey1
Apr 11, 2011
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For Today’s Youth, Life is but a Stream
From MediaPost: Streaming music is as common a practice as streaming video, with Gen Y spending an average of two hours and 40 minutes a...
mramsey1
Apr 8, 2011
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Why Social Sign-in is Radio’s Future
If you have ever logged on to a site and skipped the registration process by clicking the Facebook log-in button, then you have used a...
mramsey1
Apr 6, 2011
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One Radio Council’s Dumb Attempt to Reposition Pandora
Increasingly, radio recognizes that Pandora is a rising presence, both among listeners and advertisers. What to do about that? Well,...
mramsey1
Apr 2, 2011
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Yes, Pandora is a Radio Substitute
From Inside Radio: Is Pandora a substitute for radio… or for stored music collections? What impact is the personalized internet radio...
mramsey1
Mar 4, 2011
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A Tale of Two Streaming Brands
In the past few weeks I have connected with two wildly different broadcasters. Both were smart and skilled with successful radio stations...
mramsey1
Feb 24, 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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Key Lessons from Online Radio Abroad
Two things separate the way online radio works in the US from the way it tends to work internationally. First, there’s far more...
mramsey1
Nov 9, 2010
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12 Satisfying Seconds of Advertising
So I’m listening to Pandora on my home audio/TV system via my Blu-Ray DVD player. I was tuned in for about an hour as I read a book,...
mramsey1
Nov 7, 2010
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The NAB doesn’t seem to understand Radio’s Future
Sometimes the NAB doesn’t understand the future of its own industry. I’m referring to one point written by NAB to Radio Ink and following...
mramsey1
Nov 2, 2010
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Radio is about to Make a Very Bad Bet
Theoretically it makes all the sense in the world: The labels want higher licensing fees from radio? Fine, then radio wants a faster and...
mramsey1
Oct 25, 2010
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Is Radio Waving its Future Goodbye?
From Bloomberg: By early next year, Ford Motor Co. will be shipping Fiesta cars with software that operates Pandora via voice controls....
mramsey1
Oct 12, 2010
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How to Monetize Online Radio
I have argued long and hard for online radio as an important piece of radio’s digital portfolio, yet I have been faced with all the usual...
mramsey1
Sep 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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Simulcast your Spots on Radio and Online? Don’t.
Right now, some sticky AFTRA rules preclude this for the most part. If we’re lucky, the thinking goes, the stream will add to the...
mramsey1
Sep 10, 2010
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