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Voor het eerst in decennia groeit de muziekindustrie weer. En dat is vrijwel geheel te danken aan de tumultueuze opkomst van streaming- en ondemand-diensten, met de nieuwe Napsters zoals Spotify, Juke en zelfs Amazon. Wat wordt er aangeboden en hoe ga …
Lees meerDe hevige concurrentie onder online muziekdiensten begint zijn tol te eisen. Pionier Rhapsody ontslaat 30 personeelsleden, maar heeft een nieuwe investeerder binnengehaald. Ook Pandora had geen goed nieuws.
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Hot on the heels of a relatively strong quarter for the streaming music service, Pandora has announced that its long-time CEO and President, Joe Kennedy, will be stepping down. In a statement this afternoon, Pandora said that he will “continue in his current role until his successor is named.”
Kennedy, who has been at the helm of the streaming music service since July 2004 and helped take the company public, and led it to a platform that now has over 67 million monthly active listeners. Pandora today has over 8 percent of total U.S. radio listening market share.
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Veteran streaming radio platform Pandora released its fourth quarter earnings today, in which it saw its fiscal 2013 revenue of $427.1 million, representing a 56 percent year-over-year increase, and fourth quarter revenue of $125.1 million, an increase of 54 percent year-over-year. In turn, mobile revenue for the fourth quarter grew 111 percent year-over-year to $80.3 million.
At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC in May 2010, a young startup named Art.sy took home the “Rookie Disruptor Award” for its art-focused search engine, which allowed users to find art by style, category, size, color, and more. Art.sy also tapped into users’ social graphs to offer personalized recommendations to make art discovery a little less overwhelming.
The idea caught the attention of investors, and over the next year-and-a-half, Art.sy raised $7.25 million in two rounds from the likes of Eric Schmidt, Jack Dorsey, Keith Rabois, David Tisch, Charlie Cheever, Dave Morin, Peter Thiel, Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, Wendi Murdoch, and Dasha Zhukova.
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Senzari, the Pandora competitor backed by $1 million in funding from 500 Startups and others, has just debuted a brand-new recommendation engine called AMP3, which steps up the competition quite a bit between it and other streaming radio providers. The new engine (which we’ll just call “AMP” for short) isn’t like the basic “artist radio” option found in Pandora, or the radio features in other streaming music apps, either. Those, at best, may just include a “more/less like this” slider option for customization purposes. Instead, with AMP, listeners can customize their music by a number of factors, including popularity, tempo, similarity, and discovery.
And, says Senzari, this is just the beginning.
Lees meerInternet radio providers have become increasingly popular in recent months, especially as many of the biggest companies roll out well-designed mobile apps and both free and paid subscription versions of their services. Although Spotify currently dominates Europe and has become incredibly popular in the United States, Pandora has been around longer and maintains a dedicated […]
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Miami-based streaming music startup Senzari, backed by $2 million in angel funding, is continuing its international rollout today with an entrance into its third market since its U.S. launch into private beta last December. Today, the company is announcing that it’s dropping the invite-only status as it moves into Spain, where it has signed a strategic partnership deal with MTV Spain.
The site has also been redesigned with a “mobile first” approach that will help the company transition to smartphone and tablet devices in the near future. As a part of the redesign, an “Around You” feature taps into Facebook to help users discover the music popular with those that frequent a particular location. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of Senzari’s plans for social recommendations. The company is just two months away from the launch of a new algorithm which will help build stations based on data gathered from Facebook’s Open Graph, among other things.
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