September 22, 2015
Carter Brokaw of iHeartMedia - XAPPmedia Advertising Week Panelist

Advertising Week Panelist Spotlight: Carter Brokaw, iHeartMedia

iHeartMedia President of Digital Revenue & Strategy, Carter Brokaw is a panelist on next week’s Advertising Week session, "Internet Radio is Bigger than Facebook!? What it Means for Marketers." Below, Carter discusses his attraction to sound, the profound audience reach of radio/Internet radio, and how audio provides an ideal mobile marketing platform.
September 2, 2015

The Future of Mobile – an Interview with Dan Hodges of Consumers in Motion

Dan Hodges is CEO and founder of Consumers in Motion Group, an agency focused on mobile strategy. Earlier in his career, Dan served in senior executive roles at Verve Mobile, Nokia, Mediavest and the Associated Press.
August 26, 2015
Audio Has Been Mobile Through the Years

Why Audio is the Quintessential Mobile Media

Mobile devices have changed how and when consumers interact with digital media. The rapid proliferation of smartphones in particular has both created new consumption habits for digital media and diverted consumer attention away from traditional media. But there are really two definitions of mobile media.
August 18, 2015

Video Case Study – IAB MIXX Awards for NPR and Mack Avenue Records

Watch the video for the NPR One ad created by XAPPmedia for Mack Avenue Records artist Cecile McLorin Salvant that was named a finalist for the IAB MIXX Awards 2015 in the Digital Audio category.
August 6, 2015
Time Spent with Digital Media

Internet Radio is Bigger than Facebook. Look at the Data.

When many people think about marketing to mobile consumers, Facebook comes to mind. However, eMarketer data show that Internet radio is even more fertile ground. The analyst estimates that 12% of time spent with digital media will go to Internet radio this year while only 6% will be with Facebook.
July 16, 2015
Mobile Listening Percentage - Triton Digital

Triton Top 20 Ranker: Internet Radio Listening Grows 42%, Mobile Surpasses 75%

Yesterday, Triton released its Top 20 Ranker results of Internet radio listening for May. The story is consistent with previous entries by Triton captured by its audio measurement platform Webcast Metrics. As an industry, average active listening sessions increased 42.5% over May 2014 and most of that has come from Pandora and Spotify.
July 1, 2015

AdExchanger: XAPPmedia’s Pat Higbie & Pandora’s Tim Westergren on Apple Music

With the release of Apple Music and Beats 1 yesterday, there is still much speculation on Apple's revenue model. AdExchanger's Liz Rowley interviewed several leaders in the industry to get their take on the future of subscription-based vs. ad-supported streaming music services, including XAPPmedia's Pat Higbie.
June 24, 2015

Google Play Music Introduces Ads – no surprise there

Yesterday, Google Play Music quietly announced an ad-supported, free listening tier. This complements the $9.99 monthly subscription service offered since 2013. Most of the media chatter […]
June 15, 2015
Streaming Music Consumer

Growing Your Audience by Giving Users a Sense of Control

Every audio app wants to build a large, loyal audience. Loyalty is critical because building your audience also means keeping the users you already have. Apps do this today with touch-based content interaction to skip, save, thumbs up, thumbs down, etc. This interactivity gives users this all-important sense of control, but unfortunately touch is only effective while users are looking at the app.