Pandora Shining Through Gloomy Market.

[recto101]

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Pandora Shining Through Gloomy Market. It was a bad day for the stock market, but Pandora Media Inc. had a great day Tuesday up 0.78 (+8.35%) at 9.86, partly because in the midst of announcements about new iPads and computers by Apple Inc

 

[stuckinthe50s]

"...there wasn’t any indication that Apple plans to become an internet music competitor anytime soon."

Kind of faint praise. :

 

[TheBigA]

Then the next day, it lost almost 6%

 

[Casey]

Pandora has a great product. Unfortunately (for them) so do their competitors.

 

[JohnnyElectron]

did you catch the Saturday Night Live skit last Saturday (10/20/12) about Pandora's computer failure and the intern (Bruno Mars) singing to the customers? Great free publicity for Pandora

 

[TheBigA]

did you catch the Saturday Night Live skit last Saturday (10/20/12) about Pandora's computer failure and the intern (Bruno Mars) singing to the customers? Great free publicity for Pandora

Hmmm...how is a computer failure "great publicity?"

 

[ajc_trw]

Pandora has a great product. Unfortunately (for them) so do their competitors.

IHeart can do what Pandora does for me so I use both. However if I'm listening to clear channel radio and the heart is open I tend to use that rather than switch over.

 

[thelegacy]

How can anyone call Pandora a "Radio" when there is no human that controls the content? Even Internet Radio stations that use Shoutcast and are automated program their playlists and constantly rotate their content. I'm disgusted at the fact that the public considers this the same as a real Radio station in which its not. You yourself can load songs into Winamp and attach the Shoutcast DSP to it and run a random playlist just for yourself as long as you don't list it public you'd need no copyright license since the only one listening would be yourself while you travel. Better yet just run a Listen2myradio account and don't give out the url to anyone and you yourself use it to listen to your collection while away. Its a web jukebox at best but certainly not Radio.

 

[ajc_trw]

How can anyone call Pandora a "Radio" when there is no human that controls the content?

Hate to burst your bubble (well, not really hate) but I would bet there are a fair amount of OTA FM stations that get their playlists thru the same automation Pandora uses. And when they don't I'm sure there are more than enough PDs that pick a list so mismatched and terrible automation is priceless in comparison. Much as a national talk show host outshines a local yokel that mispronounces towns & names outside his backyard.

BTW: I don't consider Pandora "Radio" I consider it "My radio station".

 

[TheBigA]

How can anyone call Pandora a "Radio" when there is no human that controls the content?

Doesn't the USER qualify as a human? You have to enter your personal parameters to create the genome, so in that way, a human controls the content.

 

[thelegacy]

When a human picks artists the alga rhythm of certain artists is set by Pandora itself. Now if you could actually create a "Playlist" and then Pandora would play the songs from the list at random it would actually be closer to what us Internet Radio broadcasters really do. I think the term should be "Pandora Internet Jukebox" or "Pandora cloud playlist" but who's to say.

Yes there are plenty of stations like JackFM, MikeFM, BobFM which use a playlist similar to SAM Broadcaster on AutoDJ and there really is a music programmer that comes into the station and actually changes the playlist or uses a Clockwheel and changes the daily or weekly playlist. So a more random and fresh effect happens during each week.

Yes over the air stations have a lot to be desired these days this is why true Internet Radio or small webcasters may catch up and pass them by. Over the air stations will always have informative content that won't be matched by the small webcaster so there will always be a need for some sort of commercial Radio from time to time. But for those who mostly want to hear Music this is where the small webcaster can outshine commercial Radio.

 

[Jay Peninger]

I think Pandora and iHeartRadio set the bar right now but I think they appeal to slightly different audience.... Pandora's pure play free of the clutter of a terrestrial station, and iHeart is a perfect solution for the folks who like their radio but want to see whats available outside their market.

That is why I feel iStreamRadio is going to have some success, it leverages what it good about both those services and combines it in a nice easy to look at and use interface, and while iHeart is busy with it's 1500+ terrestrial stations, iStream will have vastly more to choose from since it's focus is Internet Only Broadcasters...

Stay tuned this iStreamRadio stuff is going to be a hoot!!!

 

[thelegacy]

@TheX-KXRX That is why I'm very much interested in getting The Legacy listed on your product. And after I make a little more revenue from promoting different services I'm affiliated with I may be able to shell out the $50 so I can be on there for 1 yr. I'm also very interested in the Beta and from what I understand your app will be like TuneIn and iHart but only for Internet Radio stations. This will help all us small webcasters to survive and maybe make a buck or two. The more I know about your service the more I'm eager to do something to help. I've seen services like StreamFinder which makes money advertising Radio stations and Web Radio Central which does the same (And I have my station there) and haven't gotten a ton of listeners from there. TuneIn and iTunes so far are my biggest audiences.