http://www.beadtopia.net/pandora-beads-2010/
2011 Was Meant To Be The Pandora Takeoff Momentthe Year That Pandora Went Public And Solidified Its Total, Total Domination Over Web Radio And Music Streaming.
And taken from the starting gate in February, it sure looked like that was feasible. Pandora’s S-1 form noted which it had registered 80 million users since January 2011, with an all new one enrolling every second.
Plus, Pandora had cornered around half of all Internet radio listening one of the top 20 online stations and networks in America, as outlined by one survey. “Since we launched the Pandora service in 2005, our listeners are coming up with over 1.4 billion stations,” the S-1 statement added.
But through the third quarter on this year, it was clear that although Pandora remains King of cyber-radio-like Louis the XVI, its reign has yet to achieve financial sustainability. Royalty costs, the fragmented mobile listening market, and, gasp, competition from broadcast radio for advertisers has forced the business to invest more money on product development, marketing and purchases. Some of that competitors are coming from Clear Channel, featuring its upgraded version of iHeartRadio.
“We expect until this increased amount of operating expenses will continue to the future,” Pandora’s S-3 statement disclosed. ”As as a consequence of foregoing factors, we expect you'll still incur operating losses on an annual basis through a minimum of the conclusion of fiscal 2012.”
Meanwhile, another thing was happening too: numerous music social media startups, exports, experiments, and rebels put their hands up all over cyberspace, or reinvented themselves. These outliers are redefining not merely online music sharing, but “radio” itself. The following is an admittedly ramshackle assessment of probably the most interesting players.
Turntable.fm surfaced in May on this year, and yes it quickly took Internet radio by storm. You can get the site via your Facebook account. “TT.fm”-as its fans refer to it, allows users to create rooms and share tunes via the service’s database. Or subscribers can upload music themselves. Once established, you get points business listeners who “awesome” your picks. They could also list themselves among your fans.
Throughout the last six months, a veritable universe of Turntable.fm stars emerged, one of the most noted of which being DJ Wooooo, the “#1 Deejay on Turntable.fm,” as his Twitter page explains. She has no less than 7,065 fans, in line with the ttdashboard. But actually is well liked has lots of competition. An uncountable amount of full and semi-entrepreneurs are running all sorts of music events on these rooms, from “Mashtivals” to “Party Bus” frolicks.
From May through September, tt.fm enjoyed a tremendous wave of adulation and buzz. Then its participation numbers dropped, to the apparent delight of skeptics. But I still see turntable.fm as being a real breakthough, a way for small teams of people to create social network radio stations that replicate radio stations dj experience. The tt.fm story is just beginning, I suspect.
Soundtap and and RadioFlag
Less well known but greatly worthy of mention are Soundtap and RadioFlag. As Jennifer Waits highlights, RadioFlag’s search mechanisms have grown to be a bit hit with all the college radio loving crowd. Understanding that goes quadruple for Soundtap, the “human-powered” and “crowd sourced help guide to independent radio” that permits you to aggregate your selected community and college radio shows.
“While investigating the site today, I spotted shows from some of my favorite DJs at KALX , KZSU, KUSF in Exile, and WFMU,” Jennifer noted in their own report on Soundtap. “I have also been able to add some programs from my own, personal station, KFJC . The interface permits you to add not merely descriptions of radio shows, but also links for their Facebook pages, Twitter URLs, and playlists” as reported tagza.com.
Pandora Jewelry 2010 Ad