Internet Radio Archives

July 25, 2016

Audio.Ad Launches Interactive Audio Advertising with XAPP Ads® in the United States and Latin America

Audio.ad will offer XAPP Ads® that enable mobile consumers of music streaming services and other audio apps to interact with advertising simply by speaking. Audio.ad will be XAPPmedia’s exclusive representative in Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market.

June 13, 2016

Adotas & XAPPmedia: Ad Blocking From A Streaming Audio POV

An Adotas Q&A with XAPPmedia CMO Bret Kinsella explores how audio streaming can dodge the dangers of ad blocking.

June 6, 2016

BizReport XAPPmedia Interview on Ad Blocking

BizReport & XAPPmedia: How Radio Blocks Ad Blocking

Kristina Knight of BizReport recently interviewed XAPPmedia CMO Bret Kinsella on ad blocking's minimal effect on radio.

June 1, 2016

What Spotify’s Financials Tell Us About Streaming Audio Economics – Part 2

Yesterday, we explored the numbers behind Spotify’s tremendous growth in subscription and advertising revenue counterbalanced by its shrinking gross margins. Today, we will discuss where all of that money is going.

May 31, 2016

What Spotify’s Financials Tell Us About Streaming Audio Economics – Part 1

Spotify recently released data showing that it had surpassed $2 billion in revenue with an 8.7% net loss. However, these were far from the most interesting data points that became public. The near doubling of advertising revenue, the fall in effective monthly revenue per user and the contracting margins are noteworthy.

May 25, 2016

Triton Data Shows Continued Rise in Internet Radio Listening

Triton released its March 2016 Webcast Metrics Top 20 Ranker which showed a continued rise in Internet radio listening. This also represented the first month that Triton proactively broke out Average Active Session (AAS) growth rates for pure play and broadcast Internet radio and streaming services. While both showed strong year-over-year growth, broadcast showed a small decline since the beginning of 2016.

May 3, 2016

Mobile Advertising Growth Will Boost Internet Radio Revenue

Internet radio audience has grown quickly. The industry commands somewhere between 600 – 900 million monthly listeners globally depending on which analysis you choose to cite. In the U.S., 57% of the population listens monthly and 50% weekly. The growth will allow Internet radio and streaming music services to capture an increasing share of the $42 billion in mobile advertising forecasted for 2016.

April 26, 2016

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MediaPost: 90% of Commuters Listen to Radio, XAPP and Edison Data Cited

Yesterday’s MediaPost article discussed the listening habits of car commuters citing data from XAPPmedia’s Internet Radio Ad Load Report and Edison Research. The article specifically compares the channel switching behavior of AM/FM radio listeners to Internet radio listeners during a commercial break.

April 25, 2016

MediaPost Interview with XAPPmedia Pat Higbie

MediaPost Interviews Pat Higbie on Internet Audio

Op-Ed Contributor to MediaPost Charlene Weisler interviewed XAPPmedia CEO Pat Higbie about the founding of XAPPmedia, the internet audio industry, and the future of streaming music.