Competitors

Steaming music company Pandora released some interesting numbers today and apparently the street is eating it up with the stock moving up as much as 21% in after hours trading. Pandora announced 4Q13 total revenue of $125.1 million, a 54% year-over-year increase — advertising revenue of $109.0 million, a 51% year-over-year increase – subscription and… → Read More

In an under the radar blog post today, Pandora gently massaged their users with a new 40 hour per month limit on free mobile listening. The new limit is said to affect less than 4% of their total monthly listeners. As we recently noted, the average listener is only tuning in for an average of… → Read More

The music streaming service Slacker has just taken its sleek new user interface and joined the ranks of iHeartRadio, Last.fm, and Rhapsody on the popular XBOX 360 gaming console. Fans of the music streaming service can now listen to their music just about anywhere with apps on Kindle, Roku, Sonos, Sony TV’s/DVD players, and all… → Read More

Spotify announced today that they have partnered with Ford Motor Co in a deal that will bring their music streaming service to all Ford models with SYNC AppLink. This will give the current 20 million active Spotify users voice activated access to their over 20 million song catalog. This deal marks Spotify’s first, in what… → Read More

Heavy hitters like Google breaking into the streaming music arena has always been a concern for companies trying to make it in that tough business, and now it seems as though that often discussed hypothetical is about to come true. The Financial Times is reporting that Google is in talks with major music labels in… → Read More

UPDATE: The simple answer to this question is NO.  I am glad to report that not only is iHeartRadio holding its own, but it appears to be in third place among the big 5 IP delivered audio entertainment players.  The initial post below did seem to indicate that iHeart was falling off of the map…. → Read More

For the first time since May of 2007, online music streaming service Pandora is, once again, available in both Australia and New Zealand. This continent crossing deal marks the first international expansion for the publicly traded Pandora which saw a 4% pop on the news. The company is doing more than just opening online registrations… → Read More

It has been revealed that Spotify, the Internet Radio service famous for On-Demand music streaming, now boasts 5 million paying subscribers with 1 million of that total coming from the United States.  While these numbers may not look impressive at first blush, getting 1 million self paying subscribers in a year is a good achievement…. → Read More

It appears that SiriusXM’s Mel Karmazin is not the only CEO stepping down from an audio entertainment company these days.  In a surprise move MOG founder and CEO David Hyman is heading out the door.  MOG recently sold to Beats, the popular headphone maker.  Hyman’s move is effective immediately, but it was disclosed that Hyman… → Read More