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Apple and Google Want the Car Dashboard – Now
Dear Radio Listeners: Apple and Google want you! Even (and perhaps especially) when you’re in your car. Here’s a video showing some of...
mramsey1
Feb 3, 2014
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Whatever Happened to Podcasting?
[A longer version of this post appeared in NetNewsCheck] “Podcasting” is the term describing the creation and consumption of on-demand...
mramsey1
Nov 22, 2013
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11 Million New Users to iTunes Radio – in One Weekend
Over 11 million unique listeners have already tuned in to iTunes Radio since launch with the most listened to song being “Hold On, We’re...
mramsey1
Sep 23, 2013
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Radio’s Auto Dashboard Strategy: We’ve Got It All Wrong
In the race to exploit new digital opportunities, Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker has described three “consumer Internet ‘white...
mramsey1
Sep 19, 2013
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4 Ways iTunes Radio Changes Everything
This post was originally published by PBS’s MediaShift and is reprinted here with their permission. I wrote it shortly before last week’s...
mramsey1
Sep 14, 2013
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Newspaper Lessons in Transformation for Radio Broadcasters
Invariably, that means some in the industry will become leaders while the rest become followers and even also-rans. Mike Hodges is one of...
mramsey1
Aug 21, 2013
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What’s ahead for Pandora? CTO Tom Conrad talks to Mark Ramsey
Here are some of the questions I asked Tom: How has Apple’s introduction of iTunes Radio changed the calculus for Pandora? Are you...
mramsey1
Jul 14, 2013
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Thank you, Apple!
It’s hard to speculate on Apple’s “iRadio” before there’s an “iRadio” to speculate on. But one day it will be announced any day now, so...
mramsey1
Jun 4, 2013
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“Pandora Helps Apple Sell More Music”
Maybe it’s time to stop asking Pandora how they feel about Apple’s pending entry into the streaming radio marketplace and start asking...
mramsey1
Apr 22, 2013
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Too Many Apps, Not Enough Time
Are we suffering app overload? That’s the conclusion of Business Insider: People download a lot of apps, but they abandon 95 percent of...
mramsey1
Feb 20, 2013
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What Happens to Radio when Technology Kills Mobile Phones?
There remains a drumbeat among some broadcasters to install FM radio into mobile phones, but what happens when some new technology kills...
mramsey1
Jan 2, 2013
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Is Radio “Relevant”?
I was struck by the following exchange about radio’s relevance – or lack thereof – from Radio Ink: Entercom CEO David Field got the hair...
mramsey1
Nov 8, 2012
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Apple’s “Pandora Challenge” is really a Radio Industry Challenge
Apple is rumored to be launching a radio-like streaming service, and Bloomberg is missing the point. Yesterday, Bloomberg published a...
mramsey1
Oct 25, 2012
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The Rise of “Radio as a Feature”
We are witnessing the dawn of a new age: The rise of radio as a feature. That means “radio” isn’t simply a media category run by media...
mramsey1
Oct 17, 2012
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I’m Going to Stage a Secret Radio Meeting
…much like the one being staged in “secret” at the NAB Radio Show right now. And like that meeting, the purpose of mine is to plot...
mramsey1
Sep 19, 2012
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“The Most Beautiful Product We’ve Ever Made”
That’s how Apple’s marketing chief, Phil Schiller, introduced the new iPhone yesterday. You can forgive the whiff of hyperbole because...
mramsey1
Sep 12, 2012
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Apple wants to Erase your Radio Spots
Another day, another technology-driven way to undo advertising. Forget the fact that advertising is what pays for most of the content we...
mramsey1
Aug 21, 2012
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Apple’s New “Podcasts” App – Radio’s Friend or Foe?
Podcasts are emerging from the dungeons of iTunes in their own dedicated app. You can get it yourself here. If you’re a podcast fan,...
mramsey1
Jun 28, 2012
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Big Changes Coming for Podcasts – and Radio may be in the Bulls-Eye
From CultofMac: Apple’s developer release of iOS 6 created an instant mystery: Podcasts are missing from the iTunes app! In fact,...
mramsey1
Jun 17, 2012
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What Makes Radio Matter
So the other day I was in Barnes & Noble for the first time in a long time. What a revelation! Where are the DVD’s?! Gone! And the...
mramsey1
Nov 15, 2011
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