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Deezer and Sonos enter long-term partnership

17/02/2023

Deezer and Sonos enter long-term partnership to power the brand’s streaming radio service Sonos Radio and its subscription service Sonos Radio HD. The collaboration will provide a catalogue of music that is curated for Sonos customers and furthers Deezer’s strategy of focusing on partnership-led expansion to deliver growth opportunities in the US and other markets globally. Deezer now has more than 45 partners and 80 hardware integrations worldwide. Beginning April 2023, Deezer will deliver key […]

Zog Radio

22/01/2023

Zog Radio was an internet radio station broadcasting a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream. In October 2022 DJ Zog announced that “Zog internet radio will be on hiatus”. He continued “I know this has got a lot of positive feedback, but for a while this service will be shut down as I have too much on my plate. This could very likely be started up again in future, if so I will note here.” The […]

Over half of young Americans don’t have a radio set

19/03/2022

Over half of young Americans don’t have a radio set in their home according to The Infinite Dial 2022 survey from Edison Research and sponsored by Wondery and Art19. In the 2020 Infinite Dial, performed before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, just under one-in-three Americans age 12 and older reported not having a single radio in their home. Two years later, that number is now 39%. Fourteen years ago, only 4% of respondents said they had no radios at […]

SOURCE: RAJAR - Share of digital listening hours (Q4 2021)

Listening to radio on smart speakers increases in UK

10/02/2022

Listening to radio on smart speakers increases in UK according to the latest figures release by RAJAR, the UK’s official body for measuring radio audiences. 51% of speaker users listened to radio weekly in the fourth quarter of 2021 compared to 48% in Q3 2021. Listeners who said they used smart speakers everyday rose from 20 to 21% in the same time period. Key UK radio listening statistics 40 million adults aged 15+ are now […]

How to listen to lossless FLAC Internet Radio with your browser

03/01/2022

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec a lossless audio format that supports both CD Quality and HiRes music whether it is for downloads, streaming or internet radio. It is an open source format that is maintained by Xiph.org – ‘a non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests.’ Television has seen a revolution in picture quality in the past couple of decades going from 625-line PAL through HD, 4k […]

BBC Sounds app gets over 1.3Bn plays in 2021

31/12/2021

BBC Sounds app gets over 1.3Bn plays in 2021 (January to November) an increase of 8% over a similar period in 2020 according to a recent blog post by the BBC. The latest figures also show there were 558 million plays of podcasts and on demand radio programmes in 2021, with a nearly 25% increase in podcast listening compared to the same period last year. On demand listening for music mixes on BBC Sounds also […]

How do consumers listen to music?

16/12/2021

How do consumers listen to music was the question posed by YouGov as part of its ongoing research into the music industry. The study asked consumers in the US, Britain, Germany, Indonesia and Australia how they listened to music. Car radio is still the most popular activity Data reveals that listening to music radio in a car is popular among a majority of consumers across four in five markets of the survey and is the most common way […]