audio consumers Archives

June 15, 2015

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.

November 18, 2014

Streaming is a Growth Opportunity for Broadcast Radio

As we mentioned in Part One of this series last week, consumers are voting with their ears. Internet radio was not displacing much broadcast radio listening when it was primarily a desktop computer phenomenon. That has changed with the rise of mobile devices. Whether it's the convenience, choice, personalization or lower ad loads, more consumers are listening to Internet radio on mobile and they are increasing their time spent listening each year.