Archive for the 'Streaming' Category

If you are in the Internet Radio space, you might have heard about the annual RAIN Las Vegas summit.
If not, you might want to take a look. It’s a more private gathering than any big conventions, and a great way to talk about what’s going on in Internet radio trends and meet the people from [...]

Ever since a major overhaul of our Trance channel at Digitally Imported, it’s been sounding really banging not only during show times but at off-peak too. Much of the older neo-classic Trance stuff has been removed.
Well in recent weeks I’ve been going to the gym and using my iPhone while on the elliptical machine. I’ve [...]

Reports are on the web about Social.fm – the word is that it has closed shop.
I’ve heard of Mercora before, of course, but have not actually used it. It was supposed to be one of those music discovery services. Recently Mercora re-branded as Social.fm, going into the me-too game of trying to be a social [...]

Kurt Hanson of RAIN (Radio and Internet Newsletter) was nice enough to interview me recently.
Here’s Part 1 with my thoughts on some of his questions. Parts 2 and 3 coming later.

When you get a business to a certain size, you are able to get resources cheaper and grow faster. In my experience that has certainly been the case with Internet Radio.
Building DI.fm and SKY.fm as a network of many channels we own eventually brought certain benefits to the table.
We get more exposure and recognition in [...]

Here’s a neat list of some popular dance radio stations on the Internet. Call it an experiment of sorts to see if its sticky that way.
I have to say that the look and feel was not unique, I’ve seen it done by someone else like this first.

Sometimes you get lucky, and a great domain name actually expires vs being on the domain after market. With Digitally Imported already having a premiere Electro House channel, this is a no brainer to get into some day.
 Thanks Tom, your channel rocks!

Last week we got a new Premium service landing page out.
Here’s hoping it converts better, I do think it looks and performs much better. We’ll be testing things like the title and the main image there over time to see if it makes any impact.
Here’s what it used to look like before:

And here’s what it [...]