Monthly Archives: June 2011

Web Radio Pioneer Pandora Prepares for IPO

San Francisco Chronicle

When Pandora launched 11 years ago, Internet radio was a novelty, the iPod was not yet a gleam in Steve Jobs’ eyes, and the recording industry regarded digital music as the keys to piracy.

Today, as Pandora Media Inc. prepares to sell stock for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange this week, Apple Inc. is moving digital music into the cloud and 39 percent… Read more >

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New Parks/TargetSpot Study: 45% of Internet Radio Listeners Listen on Smartphone

Radio Info

Internet radio listening (both to pureplay and AM/FM stations that stream) occurs in 39% of U.S. households equipped with broadband. That’s from Twice, in a preview of today’s research study from Parks Associates conducted for TargetSpot. Among the adults who listen to Internet radio, 96% do so on a computer, and 45% listen on a smartphone. And while the tablet category is relatively new, 15% of Internet radio… Read more >

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