As discussed in my prior post the technical side of car integration for Internet radio is difficult due to the many car companies, their suppliers and in dash systems. Pandora, Tunein, NPR and iHeart radio have an amazing lead on the terrestrial radio industry for real estate on the car entertainment systems. Pandora was integrated […]
We just returned from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The primary theme was Internet radio in the car. One of our portfolio companies, Livio Radio, announced FMConnect which allows terrestrial radio stations the ability to now take advantage of two-way communication (read; digital) utilizing the cell phone connected to your car’s entertainment […]
Angel Street Capital recently closed on an investment in Fundation, Inc‘s convertible note round. Fundation provides on-line commercial loans of $50,000 – $250,000. Fundation has developed an automated credit decision engine and will use the Internet to target its offering to select industries and geographic areas. This is not a peer-to-peer lending model but rather […]
Given the recent filing by Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Jared Polis (D-CO) of the “Internet Radio Fairness Act,” bill and the significant impact that this could have on the economics for Internet radio we should all be following the upcoming music royalty negotiation that SiriusXM will undertake. The House Bill proposes the same standard […]
This morning Fred Wilson, Partner at Union Square Ventures wrote in his blog post about sustainability which applies to Internet Radio. Some of Fred’s thinking comes from Clayton Christensen whom I have cited before in my blog. Here is Fred’s blog post: If you want to stay in business forever, you have to focus on […]
There appears to be a growing movement questioning the cost of ad insertion for terrestrial radio stations that are streaming. Saga Communications recently decided not to insert different ads into their streams but to let the same programming going out over the air to be distributed on their streams as well. This movement if successful […]
Today Pandora announced audience metrics for June 2012. While these stats represent significant growth over the prior year, June results were lower than May except for share of total radio listening as can be seen below: Listener Hours – 1.08 Billion (- 1.8% May to June) Share of Total U.S. radio listening ( +3.1% May […]
Ad targeting in Internet radio does not deliver for advertisers at the local level. No it is not rooted in a problem with technology. As recent announcements from Triton Digital and Abacast make clear, the technology exists. However, since most station’s audiences are small and a significant amount is out of market listening (often over […]
Tunein is perhaps one of the largest directories of Internet radio stations with over 50,000 stations listed with most available to be streamed. The company has been signing up stations to be part of their directory although we do not know the business terms of these deals. I think it is safe to […]
I have received numerous comments about the post I wrote last week entitled “What do Broadcasters’s see in iHeartRadio”. My post has been interpreted in a number of different ways. Let me first state that iHeartRadio is a great service and one that I have loaded on my iPhone. Clear Channel has markedly improved the […]