 RAIN 6/12: Barry Diller says days of free Internet content will soon be over ·Jun 12, 11:01 AM EX-FOX, PARAMOUNT HONCHO: NET’S “UNBELIEVABLE PLENTY” WILL CONQUER TRADITIONAL MEDIA’S “SCARCITY”Traditional media will be run-over by the “unbelievable plenty” found online, said IAC chairman and chief executive Barry Diller, but not before the era of free passes into an age of paid apps. “I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid,” Diller said in a keynote discussion at the Advertising 2.0 conference in New York. The plethora of free content available online, he asserted, is but “an accident of historical moment that will be corrected.” And all within the next five years.
This will involve not only subscriptions or basic one-time purchases, but “rapid-fire micropayments” through an online app store, similar to Apple’s storefront for iPhone applications or Amazon’s “one-click” checkout. Diller said an easy and quick purchase system like this would clear the way for paid content to replace the free “chaos” online. This needs to happen because traditional media — radio, television, both using a limited spectrum of delivery — will soon be “run over by this much more open, much much less controlled [medium] that is not based on scarcity, but based on unbelievable plenty,” Diller said. For more, read ZDNet’s coverage here. EAGLES, WEEZER, OTHER ARTISTS TO LAUNCH NET RADIO CHANNELSClear Channel Radio and Front Line Management are letting The Eagles, Weezer (pictured left), Christiana Aguilera and other artists program their own Internet radio stations. The a.p.e. (artist personal experience) radio channels will feature music picked by the artist, along with interviews and commentary, and will run 24/7. The project will kick off in July with the three previously listed artists, though it will be open to more artists — including those not represented by Front Line.
The streams — which are ad-supported — will be available on Clear Channel’s local radio station’s websites, through the company’s iHeartRadio mobile application and on embeddable widgets. Clear Channel and Front Line view the channels as marketing tools, in which artists can promote new albums or tours. The artists will also make a share of the stream’s profit, but Front Line founder/CEO Irving Azoff says that’s not really the point. “Is it going to make a lot of money? No. It’s more of a marketing tool,” he said. Read more about the a.p.e. channels at Billboard here. DOTS CLOTHING STORE TO LAUNCH WEBCAST OF THEIR OWNArtists aren’t the only ones jumping into the Internet radio market, as woman’s clothing retailer Dots has announced the launch of their own webcast. The stream, built through a partnership with PlayNetwork, is available to Dots shoppers on the company’s website. Dots’ webcast launches in a separate window (allowing users to “keep the music playing long after their shopping is done”) and features current and chart topping music. For more, check out Design News’ coverage here.
LAST.FM, IMEEM AMONG PC MAG’S 6 COOL ANDROID APPS“The iPhone and BlackBerry aren’t the only phones backed up by great app stores brimming with helpful add-ons,” notes Errol Pierre-Louis at PC Mag. “The T-Mobile G1 [running on Google’s Android OS] also has an app store,” and its full of goodies. Pierre-Louis lists six favorites, two of which stream Internet radio to phones running Android. Last.fm is one, which features unlimited track skips through the service’s personalize radio streams (though Pierre-Louis notes that the app is riddled with “slow performance, unresponsive controls, and constant error messages”). The other app is Imeem (pictured), which not only comes with streaming radio stations similar to Last.fm, but streams up to 100 of your own tracks uploaded to Imeem’s servers. Check out the full article here.
DEAL WITH QNX AIMS TO BRING PANDORA CLOSER TO CAR DASHBOARDSPandora has partnered with QNX Software Systems, a company providing software to automakers. Pandora’s Internet radio streams are now supported in QNX’s Car program, which supplies car manufacturers with “pre-integrated software and hardware technologies to help speed up the prototype process and reduce engineering costs,” thereby bringing Pandora one step closer to a car’s dashboard. Read more on the story at Radio World here.share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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