How Sirius XM Can Grow!

I'm curious of other folks feedback but here is what I consider the past course of action to get the company moving in the right direction.

1.) Contact Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo and work out a deal so that Sirius and XM subscribers can stream internet radio off the consoles like NetFlix and XBOX 360 streams movies.

2.) Television ads promoting the MASSIVE music library that the combined Sirius XM have available and the sheer amount of music channels for specific genre's.

3.) Tell teenagers why a Stiletto 2 is better then an iPod. Instead of paying $.99 per song you pay less and can "Love" and record groups of songs for a monthly subscription. Not only will you capture your favorite tracks but you will be exposed to new ones. - not too mention the fact that Vista & XP users can plug in an SL2 and record those tracks into mp3 files to share.

4.) More and more Sat. Rad. A/V Receivers are coming out with hookups for both brands receivers. Offer packaged discounts with some of these partners. Buy an Pioneer Sat. Rad ready receiver and get a Home Connect Tuner for a discount.

5.) Offer accessory package promotions like the cell phone companies. Buy a receiver and get a dock for a discount.

6.) Create a Consumer Research program that can contribute not only beta testing future equipment but also to provide feedback on other issues that only the company and serious long-time enthusiasts could offer, such as on DRC, formerly Sirius Backstage Forum.

7.) Television ads - aggressively - targeting the younger demographics. A no-brainier if the company markets it's music content properly and more strongly promotes the Internet Radio feature available.

8.) Offer the Premium Internet for free for 3 months to new 1 year or more subscriptions.

9.) Offer 1-year free subscriptions to OEM vehicle installs WITHOUT hiding the cost elsewhere - make it free for real.

10.) Get DirecTV and DISH to promote the music channels they host on the Guide.

11.) Partners. You need more. Period. And we are all sitting here waiting to offer the help that could truly change things. Sirius and XM were MAJOR risk takers when they entered the market. It's time to get that risk taking back.

Personally I would love to see #1 happen. It would be one more reason for me to use and brag about the service.

That being said, if the company isn't already doing/thinking about everything on your list, they are doing us all an injustice.

At the VERY top of your list should be iPhone, Adroid, Palm applications for streaming Sirius. This gives Sirius an avenue to sell internet-only subscriptions and breaks us into a currently unexplored market. It most certainly would lessen our dependence on auto sales.

Lots of good ideas here. Email 'em with it.:)

I think the other thing that is a must for any and all portable recievers is make them compatible with the ipod/mp3 recievers that are being installed in nearly every car now. Why waste time with car adapters when you can plug it directly into the sterio with the iPod jack?

and WiFi for ALL portables.

There's no advantage of #1 unless there's no Sat TV or cable. There's Sirius channels in cable and sat TV + there's no reason to store Mp3's in a game console when you can do that in a huge computer hard drive. If the service were to be inlcuded in the monthly fee, then so be it, otherwise I would not pay for it if I were already paying for sat radio.

To make receivers compatible with Apple, NOW we are talking !!! Why not go one step further, why not make ipod MP3 players or iphone and sat radio receivers in the same device ? with the sat radio as an optional subscription ??? Why waste money in 2 devices when you can have it all in one ?

As a matter of fact, why not have sat radio on all portable devices? I've always seen selling a specific device to get someone to subscribe to a specific service as a dumb idea. You have to really want the service to pay for a $100.00 receiver and as a discretionary service you as a consumer know that when things get though, sat radio is the first thing to go out the door, even earlier than sat TV, which makes the decision to buy that $100.00 receiver weven more difficult. You see it on cable TX, Sat TV, Cell phones, etc... they give away the device for free not just a docking station !!!

Stiletto ?... do the ipod, it is proven and cooler. Use Apple massive marketing. I think striking a deal with Apple is a must. Forget about research and development, why would you want to develop something when they have the ipod ? Let them develop the next gen.

Definetely, advertising, massive to everyone not just teens. In the end who pays for the subscription ?

Free 3 month subscriptions, definetely. A year maybe a little too much. Give away the receiver instead of the subscription.

More partners ? They just need Apple to begin with. After Apple they can explore others...

Getting SiriusXM on Xbox Live would be great. For a lot of the sports games you have the annoying commentators that are repetitive and annoying. Now I just put on my DirecTV - and turn it to Classic Rewind and blast that. There would be a lot of things you could do with a partnership. Save songs to your console's hard drive and make playlist for games etc.. They got Netflix now - why not SiriusXM?

with the 360 now you can stream everything from your computer, but I'd rather listen to Opie & Anthony off of Directv. No idea why they had to fing remove that channel. Now I have to order the best of siriusxm and play it onthe starplyr on my computer.

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Originally Posted by Siriusowner

There's no advantage of #1 unless there's no Sat TV or cable. There's Sirius channels in cable and sat TV + there's no reason to store Mp3's in a game console when you can do that in a huge computer hard drive. If the service were to be inlcuded in the monthly fee, then so be it, otherwise I would not pay for it if I were already paying for sat radio.

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My cable company does not offer any sirius xm channels. Also, there is plenty good reason to store MP3's on an xbox 360. Game consoles are no longer simply game consoles, they are now full blown media centers with hundreds of gigs of hard drive space (mine is 120gb and its swappable). I can pass media from my 360 to my comp and visa versa across my network.

Just wanted to give you the heads up.

I know all that and as I mentioned, if they were to add an "included with subscription" Sirius channel to the Wii, I'd probably download it to stream SIRI just for convenience.

Perhaps if everyone else agree to pay extra, it may make sense to develop such an application; otherwise, it does not make sense because it would not bring what they are after, additional revenue.

I guess is a good a idea as long as they charge for it...and that may be a though sell (is like charging for Sirius over the internet to its current subscribers, XM radio did not charge for internet stream as far as I know).

I don't mean to be picky... you said "I know all that" but in the previous post you said that it made no sense to store music on a console and insinuated that consoles had small HD's. I just want to be sure that you and others know that this is no longer the case. My xbox has a larger HD then most of my friends laptops.

Xbox is not just a gaming console. I would say that my 360 is used 95% of the time as a media center (I dont have time to "game").

To your second point... how can you say that the ability to stream over an xbox 360 would not bring extra revenue? Why is netflix now on 360? I know plenty of people who would pay to have Sirius in their homes. I would have paid double for a service like this when I was in college because my room in my on campus apartment was facing away from the Sirius satellite.

Sure, I can stream over the net now(I couldnt get Howard's channels over the net back in the day) but that goes to my computer, not my homes entertainment system. Getting Sirius XM into an xbox 360 would be solid gold.

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Originally Posted by Siriusowner

(is like charging for Sirius over the internet to its current subscribers, XM radio did not charge for internet stream as far as I know).

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Sirius does not charge it's subscribers for the internet feed.

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Originally Posted by SiriusBuzz

I don't mean to be picky... you said "I know all that" but in the previous post you said that it made no sense to store music on a console and insinuated that consoles had small HD's. I just want to be sure that you and others know that this is no longer the case. My xbox has a larger HD then most of my friends laptops.

Xbox is not just a gaming console. I would say that my 360 is used 95% of the time as a media center (I dont have time to "game").

To your second point... how can you say that the ability to stream over an xbox 360 would not bring extra revenue? Why is netflix now on 360? I know plenty of people who would pay to have Sirius in their homes. I would have paid double for a service like this when I was in college because my room in my on campus apartment was facing away from the Sirius satellite.

Sure, I can stream over the net now(I couldnt get Howard's channels over the net back in the day) but that goes to my computer, not my homes entertainment system. Getting Sirius XM into an xbox 360 would be solid gold.



Sirius does not charge it's subscribers for the internet feed.

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I do not have an XBOX or a PS3 so I would not know how large the HD's can get which was not necessarly the point but I guess a lead you to believe that. I do have 1.2 tera bytes in my media center.

I always been a Nintendo fan and yes I know all consoles come with Wi-Fi now but Nintendo Wii does come with a tiny drive.

Their web site says $2.99 per month for current subscribers and $12.95 for non-subscribers unless is a misleading add.

http://www.sirius.com/siriusinternetradio

Sirius internet streaming is free for subscribers - it's $2.99 for the higher bit rate upgraded stream.

Let me add a bit more to this. If you have an existing sub, you can purchase another online sub (say for your family member) for $5/mo. You can add high-quality internet for $2.99 more.

HMMMM. HOW TO GET SIRIUS TO GROW!!

A BOX OF VIAGRA 2 STRIPPERS AND A BOTTLE OF CHEAP SCOTCH:thumbup:

and if that doesnt work stream on every phone, Ipod ,computer,and video game.. the future of sirius is to make it hip to the 18-35 age group.:cool: have quick easy fast access to sirius radio in and on every media form out there.

WAR STEELERS TO THE SUPER BOWL AND GETTING MY DAMN PIZZA IN UNDER 30 MINUTES OR LESS..

I have nothing else to add... just stopped by to agree with ^both of them^

Fingers still crossed hoping for #1

They need to fix that ad.

I agree with the cheap Scotch and perhaps the 2 strippers...however, SIRI does need more than a box of VIAGRA to recoup...

Xbox premium hard drive is around 13 gb's. Xbox Elite has a 120 gb hard drive on it. Plenty of storage space.

SiriXm could easily take the $14 a month I pay rhapsody to keep my Sl2 full and put it in their pocket. That would probably be easier than some of the other ideas I've heard.