 RAIN 02/10: Halyburton joins RadioTime; Ando launches new ad targeting tech ·Feb 10, 12:21 PM
HALYBURTON NAMED PRESIDENT AT RADIOTIMEFormer Susquehanna/Emmis exec Dan Halyburton has joined the RadioTime executive team as President. RadioTime is an online Internet radio directory, organizing more than 50,000 local, national, and worldwide broadcasters and webcasters. RadioTime powers the popular WunderRadio iPhone streaming app. Halyburton launched his own consulting company, Halyburton Connected, last year.
ANDO MEDIA LAUNCHES NEW TARGETED AD INSERTION TECHNOLOGYAd delivery (and audience measurement) company Ando Media has launched Targeted Ad Injector, a “real‐time, player agnostic and seamless ad insertion” mechanism designed to deliver targeted ad content to different listeners during audio broadcasts. Different ads can be delivered based on listeners’ age, gender, DMA, player, latitude/longitude, station, day, and time; (plus “external triggers such as but not limited to: pollen count, current and future weather forecast in listener’s city, breaking news and more”). Read Ando’s press release here.
SPACIAL AUDIO OFFERS NET RADIO SDK FOR FREEAustin-based Spacial Audio is offering its new Internet radio software development kit (SDK) to broadcasters, webcasters, CDN/stream providers, vendors and developers. The SDK allows developers to create unique interfaces for their streams with a variety of tools and capabilities built-in, like “seamless delivery of client and server side targetable audio and video content, along with synchronized text and banner creative,” as well as “cross browser-” and “cross platform-support” (i.e., it works with Windows, Mac, and Linux machines and Windows Media, Silverlight and Flash players). Spacial has set up a “wiki” with more info here.
ROYALTY LOGIC OBJECTS TO CRB’S PROPOSED RULEMAKINGRoyalty Logic recently filed comments with the CRB in response to the proposed “census” royalty reporting (RAIN coverage here), objecting to the requirement that copyright owners inspect the royalty reports themselves at SoundExchange offices. Royalty Logic CEO Ron Gertz said, “Once upon a time that kind of inspection might have made sense, but once upon a time companies kept books and records in printed files that could be reviewed and analyzed by a human at a desk…the CRB’s proposed rules would require hundreds of digital music services to produce gigabytes of data on every single performance of every single sound recording they transmit during the year.” For more, read Royalty Logic’s press release here.GO TV NETWORKS LAUNCHES ITS MUSIC CHANNELS ON iPHONEMobile media network GoTV has launched its music channels on the iPhone. Available for 99 cents, the application streams videos on-demand from GoTV’s country, hip-hop, rock and ES Musica channels. For more, read RBR’s coverage here.share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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