TRULIA is Advertising on Internet Radio
Trulia is starting a $45 Million ad campaign with some calling it a “bet the company” move. Interestingly their choice for audio is Internet radio as noted in a PandoDaily article this morning:
Trulia’s radio spot, destined for Pandora and iHeart Radio, will drive listeners insane before the year is up, with a voiceover relentlessly rapping on the word Trulia: cruelia, foolia, youlia, carpoolia, toolia.
Related articles
Digital Revenue – We Need a Breakout
The RAB just released 2013 radio industry revenue information which reflected no growth over 2013 in total. However, while spot radio was down 3%, digital revenue increased 18% over 2012. The percentage of digital revenue is still small, only 5%. Digital represents the greatest hope for increasing radio revenue.
We need better information on the components of digital revenue as there are many;
- Website advertising (banners and pre rolls)
- Streaming audio ads (desktop and mobile/ banners and pre rolls)
- Other destination sites (separate URL – local community news, events, etc.)
- Reselling other tools to advertisers (reputation management, SEO/SEM, social media, etc)
- Some radio groups understand the need to be competitive for digital revenue and are forming digital agencies.
- As the percentage of digital revenue increases we need additional data to understand what areas are gaining the most traction.
Related articles
Angel Street Capital invests in flexReceipts
Angel Street Capital, LLC recently completed an investment in flexReceipts, Inc. based in Orlando, FL.
flexReceipts, the leading enhanced digital receipts solution, offers retailers a post-sale opportunity to communicate with their customers. flexReceipt’s enriched receipts build customer loyalty and drive sales, while allowing retailers to monitor spending habits and shopping trends. The company’s patent-pending software allows retailers to add social media links, videos and customized offers to digital receipts. Go Beyond the Sale! Learn more at www.flexreceipts.com
Watch the product offering video here.
Angel Street Capital, LLC Invests in CLOSELY
Last week we closed on an investment in Closely. Closely has brought a number of local merchant marketing tools together in one platform.
The Company has just launched Perch 2.0 which brings reviews, social posts and promotions for you and your competition, all in one place. A significant change in this new version is the new Home screen where activity of all watched businesses is shown in a live stream. Popular posts are highlighted, so it’s really easy to understand which activity is most popular with consumers.
NIELSEN – YOU HAVE TO BE JOKING
Nielsen has announced plans to utilize the same audience panels for website measurement for measurement of Internet radio. As I have espoused for many years why would you use estimates when you can have actual audience data. That is one of the great features of Internet radio and helps advertisers have more confidence in audience data. Of course the other great attribute is an advertiser can actually know that an ad was heard unlike terrestrial radio where affidavits just reflect the fact that the ad was played but no data is available as to how many people heard the ad (other than to apply the estimated audience).
Given Nielsen’s clout they may be able to pull this off but I don’t believe its a good thing for Internet radio.
Related articles
IS PANDORA RADIO? – WHY THIS IS A RIDICULOUS QUESTION
Ever since the rise of Pandora’s audience there has been an effort to try to position the service as “not radio”. I understand the defensive posture that terrestrial radio would like to take but in my view anything that competes with you is probably quite similar in nature. Consumption of audio takes many forms but in the end there are only so many hours in a day. Listening to Pandora most likely means less time spent listening to terrestrial radio (or did all of the 69.5 million active Pandora users never listen to terrestrial radio?). We can argue about which form listeners prefer. Currently terrestrial radio has the lion share of listening. Pandora’s audience seems to have peaked.
Frankly I’m surprised that Pandora has not attempted more music curation and localization (they certainly have the user data given registration). Could I choose which version I want? Time will tell.