'Music Genome Project'

Pandora tries to boost revenue, implements audio ads

By: |Jan 20th, 2009 at 06:09PM
Filed Under: News, Services
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We’ve covered Pandora’s troubles before here on BGR and while the custom internet radio provider struggles to strike a workable deal with the RIAA, subscriptions just aren’t covering the bills apparently. Pandora, for those unaware, is a fantastic streaming music service that creates custom stations based on the tonal qualities of songs in its extensive catalog. By way of Twitter, Pandora clarified the fact that it has implemented audio ads in its guest streams. In other words, non-paying Pa...

The Sound of (mobile) Music: Pandora and Last.fm fan out mobile offerings

By: |Dec 20th, 2008 at 08:44AM
Filed Under: Services, Software, Symbian, Vodafone, Windows Mobile
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Two of the biggest names in the new wave of personalized internet radio, Pandora and Last.fm, have announced new mobile offerings this week that are sure to please subscribers. For those who aren’t familiar with these services, we’ll give you quick rundowns: Pandora is a free ad supported service (with an ad-free subscription option) that delivers custom radio stations based on the tonal qualities of each song. The user starts by entering an artist or song and Pandora continues the stream with son...