March 13th, 2013 by Music Ally

iheartradio

Clear Channel's iHeartRadio service just got a bit more radio-like with the introduction of 'Add-Ins'. The new feature enables users to get local news, weather and traffic updates when listening to the...

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February 28th, 2013 by Music Ally

pandora

Pandora is introducing a 40-hour monthly cap on free mobile listening, although it says the change will affect less than 4% of its monthly active listeners (meaning around 2.6m people out of 65.5m active...

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February 8th, 2013 by Music Ally

Logo-TuneIn

As more actual record stores are shutting down in the real world, digital services are trying to look more like them. That's progress, right?

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February 6th, 2013 by Music Ally

Apple iRadio

Literally any story about Apple will get blogged and reblogged to infinity at the moment – yesterday even saw excitable rewrites of a Wall Street Journal blog post whose sole point was essentially 'Apple...

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February 1st, 2013 by Music Ally

British body RAJAR has published its latest quarterly figures for radio listening in the UK, including some good data on the growth of digital listening.

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January 9th, 2013 by Music Ally

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Welcome to the first Music Ally Report of 2013 where we plant a flag (or, rather, several flags) in the ground and pinpoint the themes and trends that we feel will shape and define the coming year.

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December 20th, 2012 by Music Ally

mpme

Radio app MPme was a big hit at Midem 2012: an iPad app promising "curated radio" that would recommend stations to users based on their music preferences but MPme may find a new audience now with a reworked...

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December 11th, 2012 by Music Ally

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Economist David Touve has been crunching data from PPL and the BBC, as well as RAJAR estimates of UK radio listening audiences, to calculate the 'spin value' of a track played on UK radio, compared to...

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December 3rd, 2012 by Stuart Dredge

kiss-remixer

Yes, the Kiss here is the radio station rather than the long-tongued rawk band, sadly (although given Soniqplay’s past launch of a remix app for Motorhead, we wouldn’t rule anything out…)...

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