 RAIN 11/20: DiMA founder Potter to step down at year-end ·Nov 20, 10:57 AM “LEADING OPPONENT” OF MUSIC INDUSTRY’S REGULATORY ACTIONS DEPARTINGJon Potter, who founded Digital Media Association (DiMA) in 1998 and has served as its executive director since 2001, has resigned from the Internet trade group. Billboard reports that Potter will depart from DiMA when his contract expires at the end of the year. Potter was “one of the leading opponents to many of the music industry’s efforts to turn legislative and regulatory action in their favor,” Billboard notes.
“I am grateful to DiMA’s member companies for allowing me to serve them,” said Potter. “I hope that my next adventure is as challenging and rewarding.” He will be succeeded by Lee Knife, DiMA’s general counsel, who will serve as interim executive director until a replacement can be found. DiMA represents the interests of various technology companies, including large webcasters. Members include Pandora, Live365, Slacker, imee, YouTube, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia and MTV. While Potter’s resignation officially takes effect at the end of the year, “he is no longer reporting to the organization’s office and is effectively doing no day-to-day work,” Billboard reports. Find out more from Billboard‘s coverage here. LISTEN.FM TO BE PANDORA FOR CANADAVancouver resident Jeff Anderson, “frustrated with the fact that Pandora does not provide its streaming service in Canada,” is building his own Internet radio service called Listen.fm. Anderson says the service, now in Beta testing, won’t be “revolutionary…rather just a great place to listen to and discover new music that can legally be shared with others.”
TechCrunch reports that Listen.fm is partially built on the technological remains of Streamzy (in turn built on Seeqpod’s database). It should open to the public sometime next year, TechCrunch notes (here). PANDORA SAYS 1 IN 4 SONGS STREAMED TO MOBILE DEVICEA quarter of all the music Pandora streams is sent to mobile devices, according to Pandora CTO Tom Conrad. In fact, 24% of Pandora’s users signed up via mobile devices, he told GigaOM’s Paul Bonanos. Moreover, “fully half of the company’s first-time users are now signing up via mobile devices,” Bonanos reported (here).
We believe this means that while 24% of all of Pandora’s current users signed up on mobile devices, half of the new users signing up with Pandora are doing so through mobile devices. If these numbers are correct, RAIN estimates that Pandora’s listenership statistics published recently by Ando Media (RAIN coverage here) could be bumped up by approximately 33% to include mobile listeners. Elsewhere, Pandora founder Tim Westergren was a guest today on WBUR’s “On Point” radio program. The show will be avavilable later today here. share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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