Live365 is facing a financial crisis and has laid off most of its staff, according to a report on the website RAIN. It states that the Internet radio hosting platform is among the online audio entities affected by the pending expiration of rules that included below-market royalty rates for certain ...
The recent acquisition of Winamp and SHOUTcast through the Radionomy takeover by Vivendi Group has sparked some further rumours. Vivendi is one of the largest digotal media groups in the world with subsidaries including Universal Music, Dailymotion, Ubisoft and Gameloft. Users within the Winam...
Last week, the trio of federal judges who compose the Copyright Royalty Board announced new rates for internet radio and digital webcasting. It was a bit of a mixed bag, and a pretty complicated decision. But for any musician whose work gets played on internet radio, it could affect what you’r...
Internet radio broadcasting company Live 365 has been forced to significantly reduce staff and is actively looking for partners to help continue the service into 2016. The company, which allows users to create their own online radio stations, or choose to listen to thousands of human curated station...
Hobby broadcasters within the USA are expected to be hit harder with the new royalty rates released last week. Previous licensing terms have been in effect since 2006, but are due to expire this year. On December 16 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) fulfilled its every-five-year function of d...
Winamp is back… in the hands of a major corporation: Vivendi has acquired a 64.4 percent stake in Radionomy, the European online radio services company that owns Winamp and Shoutcast as well as the online radio ad marketplace Targetspot. Winamp is a pioneering MP3 player software, which in m...
Radio broadcasters who stream online will pay about one-third less in music royalties to SoundExchange starting in January, thanks to new rates issued by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) late Wednesday. The new rate for commercial nonsubscription services, both broadcast and pureplay, in 2016 is $...
Global media holding company Vivendi announced today that it has acquired a majority share (64.4%) of Radionomy Group, planting a flag in pureplay online radio and streaming audio advertising. Radionomy is an Internet radio platform that hosts independent station producers and traditional broadcast...
BPI and the Official Charts Company analyzed data about the most popular genres in streaming. The numbers showed that streaming of dance music is growing faster than other styles, with the number of audio streams in the year-to-date increasing 107% over 2014. Contemporary urban showed the second mos...
Radio has had an uneasy relationship with new and multimedia technology over the last 10 years. The World Wide Web offers emerging and established broadcasters alike access to wider audiences beyond FM and even DAB but there are few in both broadcasting and internet development taking full advantage...
