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Pandora Media’s (NYSE:P) Reach

Posted 01 Aug 2012 — by Tom Taylor
Category Analyst Coverage, Internet Radio, Media, Radio Industry, Sirius XM (SIRI) News, Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) News

By Tom Taylor

The following article comes from Tom Taylor’s newsletter, Taylor on Radio-Info.

“Pandora (NYSE:P) now reaches 11.3% of U.S. consumers in a typical week,” says The Media Audit.

The researcher’s latest newsletter carries a capsule from its new National Report, and says the 11.3% figure “represents more than 16 million listeners 18 and over,” in 62 of its 81 measured markets. There’s news in the demo breakouts — “Pandora has a heavy concentration of affluent working women who listen, those with household income of greater than $75,000 a year.” Pandora also indexes above average in reaching “business owners as well as certain ethnic groups.” Pandora does better than the market average in reaching African-American, Hispanic and Asian audiences. Charleston, South Carolina is Pandora’s top market for listening, reaching 27.9% of the market. Then you’ve got Albuquerque (26.9%), Spokane (26.8%), Allentown (25.7%) and Madison (25.4%). Read More

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Pandora (NYSE:P): “Massive Disruption” Ahead

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Posted 24 May 2012 — by Tom Taylor
Category Internet Radio, Media, Radio Industry, Technology

By Tom Taylor

The following article comes from Tom Taylor’s newsletter, Taylor on Radio-Info.

Pandora “has the audience to massively disrupt” the terrestrial radio market.

CEO Joe Kennedy says they’ve passed 150 million registered users, and that during April, 51.9 million Americans came to Pandora (Pandora Media, Inc. NYSE:P) for music and entertainment. “Total listener hours” for February-March-April nearly doubled from a year ago, growing 92% to 3.09 billion. Pandora asserts its claim to having 5.95% of total U.S. radio listening. Kennedy says it’s “already larger than the largest AM or FM station” in many markets. And he’s happy about the third-party audience measurement deal with the MRC-accredited Webcast Metrics service offered by Triton Digital. Note that Triton will supply local as well as national data. So what’s next? Read More

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Internet Radio’s Weekly Audience Jumps 30%: Arbitron-Edison Study

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Posted 11 Apr 2012 — by Tom Taylor
Category Internet Radio, Media, Radio Industry, Technology

By Tom Taylor

The following article comes from Tom Taylor’s newsletter, Taylor on Radio-Info.

Headline of the latest Arbitron-Edison “Infinite Dial” – a 30% jump in weekly online radio audience.

This is the 20th edition of a study of new media that dates way back to 1998, when there wasn’t even an accepted vocabulary for some of the behavior. (Arbitron used to refer to streaming radio listeners as “streamies.”) The latest data confirms the rapid rush toward broadband at home (now in 70% of homes), increasing reliance on the Internet (46% say it’s “the medium most essential to my life”), and the adoption of smartphones. Arbitron’s Bill Rose and Edison’s Tom Webster also take pains to point out that old media isn’t going into the dumpster. One of their bullet points – “Heavy usage of one medium is not necessarily associated with less time with other media.” Americans’ average daily time with AM/FM radio is 2 hours and 7 minutes. For heavy Internet users, it’s 2 hours and 14 minutes. Even heavy TV users, who gulp down 7-8 hours a day of tube time, use radio an average of one hour and 56 minutes. There’s other stuff that points to increased media time by Americans. “Digital device users are slightly more likely to have listened to AM/FM radio in the past week.” Bill Rose says “ten years ago, people were using seven hours a day of radio/TV/Internet. Now it’s eight hours and 18 minutes.” Overall, digital has increased “the ubiquity of media.” Check the just-released Infinite Dial “Navigating Digital Platforms” study on the Arbitron website here or the Edison site here. Here’s more — Read More

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BMW to Offer Stitcher Internet Radio

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Posted 13 Mar 2012 — by William Damsky
Category Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Internet Radio, Radio Industry, Technology

By William Damsky

BMW announced at the South By Southwest Interactive Conference that it is adding Stitcher — on-demand radio for news, talk and live programming — to the list of apps that work with its infotainment systems.

BMW and MINI customers will be able to access the on-demand streaming service via the car radio. Stitcher lets you create playlists of your favorite news, sports and talk radio shows and it recommends other programs based on your listening preferences. It provides access to over 5,000 radio shows and has been downloaded over 5 million times. Read More

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Pandora (NYSE:P): Arbitron Says Don’t Mix and Match

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Posted 20 Dec 2011 — by Tom Taylor
Category Internet Radio, Media, Radio Industry

By Tom Taylor

The following article comes from Tom Taylor’s newsletter, Taylor on Radio-Info.

Arbitron says – Don’t compare its numbers to those of “Internet music services”

Pandora (NYSE:P), true to the original Greek myth, has opened up a box-full of controversy with last week’s report titled “Pandora increases listenership in top radio markets.” It began issuing listening estimates from the top 10 radio markets in July, showing market-by-market AQH ratings. There was a followup release in September, but the December 13 release was the first one that added cume ratings to AQH ratings. Suddenly, the metrics are starting to look very “radio”-like. As Arbitron says (without naming Pandora), they “use the same labels and descriptions as Arbitron radio estimates.” TRI believes that’s the context for yesterday’s extraordinary release that Arbitron calls “a clarification…about whether Arbitron’s radio audience estimates are equivalent to those derived from Internet music services’ in-house server log files.” Its answer – with 10 bullet points – is “no.” Arbitron’s now hearing a dull roar of protest from its own paying clients about something strange out there. By sheer coincidence, Triton Digital yesterday announced its new “Webcast Metrics Local” service, breaking down its national monthly numbers for local radio markets. Again, TRI believes that the unnamed trigger for Arbitron’s “clarification” wasn’t Triton Digital, but Pandora. (There’s a story coming up soon about the Triton Digital service.) So what’s Arbitron saying about these “Internet music services”? Read More

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Sirius XM’s (NASDAQ:SIRI) Competition: Internet Listening Growth Slows Down — Even Pandora

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Posted 25 Mar 2011 — by admin
Category Media, Radio Industry, Sirius XM (SIRI) News

By Tom Taylor

The following article comes from Tom Taylor’s newsletter, Taylor on Radio-Info.

Pandora Hits a Caution Flag in the Ando Media Rankers

There’s a post-holiday pause, it seems. Pandora’s Average Active Sessions (equivalent to radio’s AQH) are flat for the month of January. Session Starts actually fell from about 236 million in December to 218 million, for “domestic” (U.S. only) listening in the 6am-8pm weekday period. Until this latest report, Pandora had shown relentless growth in Active Sessions – 448,000 in July, 486,000 in August, 493,000 in September, 556,000 in October, 585,000 in November, 642,000 in December. But the January figure is 643,446.

Certainly Pandora founder Tim Westergren’s got some phenomenal stats about registered users as he pursues the rumored Initial Public Offering. It will be a sexy stock issue. But the month-to-month stuff in the Ando Media rankers is interesting. How about Pandora’s fellow online audio sources? Read More