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Today is Nation Radio Day! AM/FM still dominates ad-supported listening

Nielsen released its latest stats on U.S. audio listening habits in Q2 2024, showing that much-maligned broadcast radio still dominates ad-supported listening.

Bruce Houghton on 08/20/2024 in Radio & Satellite | Permalink | Comments (0)
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How a Spotify TV ad dominated Summer and showed Radio’s weakness

How a Spotify TV commercial hit all the right summer notes and stole the spotlight, leaving broadcast radio scrambling to keep up.

Alana Bonilla on 08/16/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Apple Music has added Radio Monitoring: Track Your Radio Plays

Apple Music has added radio monitoring. Activity on 40,000 global radio stations can now be tracked within the free Apple Music For Artists portal.

Bruce Houghton on 07/29/2024 in Music Marketing | Permalink | Comments (1)
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How Columbia University’s 89.9 FM found Radio’s ‘lost script’ [Fred Jacobs]

Live campus radio coverage of recent protests proves that Gen Z is ready to reinvent broadcast radio if the current gatekeepers let them…..

Alana Bonilla on 05/22/2024 in Music Op-Ed | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Record labels have some bad news for radio [Bobby Owsinski]

Radio is still an important medium, but it is not as popular – particularly with music fans – as it once was. So many record labels are cutting their radio promotion teams…..

Alana Bonilla on 04/11/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Television is tanking, but Radio is reinventing

The future of visual entertainment is looking bleak as TV gets more expensive, less accessible, and just plain less entertaining. Radio faces no such detriments, and continues to succeed.

Why? How?…..

Alana Bonilla on 04/03/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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SoundExchange royalty distributions pass $11 billion

Culumative SoundExchange distributions have passed $11 billion in digital performance royalties since its launch in 2003…..

Bruce Houghton on 03/28/2024 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Why Spotify won’t give up until they get “Radio” right [Fred Jacobs]

Every streaming platform offers AI-curated “radio,” but Spotify sometimes misses the mark. Here’s where they’re falling short and why they will keep trying…..

Alana Bonilla on 03/19/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Where do radio listeners draw the line with AI? [Fred Jabobs]

Radio suffers from an identity crisis amplified by increased competition on multiple fronts. AI could be a partial solution, but only if listeners are OK with it. Radio consultant extraordinaire Fred Jacobs explores…..

Alana Bonilla on 03/06/2024 in Music Business | Permalink | Comments (0)
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Think musicians should be paid for radio play? SIGN THIS PETITION NOW

The United States is one of a handful of countries that don’t compensate artists when their music is played on AM/FM radio. The others denying hundreds of thousands of musicians. Continue reading

Bruce Houghton on 02/28/2024 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (0)
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