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...
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mramsey1
- Nov 22, 2013
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...
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mramsey1
- Sep 23, 2013
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...
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mramsey1
- Sep 19, 2013
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...
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mramsey1
- Sep 14, 2013
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...
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mramsey1
- Aug 21, 2013
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...
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mramsey1
- Jul 14, 2013
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...
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mramsey1
- Jun 4, 2013
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...
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mramsey1
- Apr 22, 2013
“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...
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mramsey1
- Feb 20, 2013
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...
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mramsey1
- Jan 2, 2013
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...
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mramsey1
- Nov 8, 2012
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...
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mramsey1
- Oct 25, 2012
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...
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mramsey1
- Oct 17, 2012
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...
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mramsey1
- Sep 19, 2012
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...
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mramsey1
- Sep 12, 2012
“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...
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mramsey1
- Aug 21, 2012
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...
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mramsey1
- Jun 28, 2012
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,...
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mramsey1
- Jun 17, 2012
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,...
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mramsey1
- Nov 15, 2011
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...
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