 RAIN 12/11: One third of UK population says they've listened to Net radio, finds RAJAR survey ·Dec 11, 12:05 PM AUDIENCE FOR CUSTOMIZABLE SERVICES GROWS 15% IN PAST 6 MONTHSRAJAR’s fifth survey of Internet audio, MIDAS 5, has found that 17.4 million UK residents — one third of the adult population — now say they have listened to Internet radio. Furthermore, 4.5 million said they use personalizable web radio services. That’s up from 3.9 million in May 2009. The top sites used include Last.fm, Spotify and Yahoo Music Launchcast.
Finally, 8.3 million adults said they had heard of stand-alone Wi-Fi radios and 1 million own one. Christel Lacaze, research manager for RAJAR, says the MIDAS 5 survey “shows that personalized online radio is the fastest growing Internet delivered audio service.” WIRED SUGGESTS iPHONE VIDEO STREAMING — NOT NET RADIO — THE BIGGEST CULPRIT FOR AT&T’S MOBILE DATA WOESEarlier this week, AT&T suggested that it is looking to move to “by the byte” pricing for mobile data plans (RAIN coverage here). Wired has an alternative suggestion: just get rid of certain iPhone apps that stream heavy amounts of live video. One example is MLB’s app, which streams live video of baseball games. “Oddly, this isn’t considered a hazard to the network. It’s a featured app that costs $10 for the now-finished 2009 season…if the company really worried about its network, it would bench MLB indefinitely.”
Wired also suggests AT&T try “rolling out network upgrades to better use the spectrum they already own, steeply discount its femtocells (essentially a home or office cell tower) or put up more towers too. But I guess it’s easier to be defensive and blame your network woes on customers to whom you sold unlimited plans.” You can read Wired’s full article here. VIRTUAL EVENT TODAY FOCUSES ON MONETIZING AUDIO TECHNOLOGYAVirtualEvent.com is today hosting “Monetizing Audio Technology,” an online conference/trade show with a focus on sports-related content. Among the many panelists are Fred Jacobs of JacAPPS, Andy Lipset of TargetSpot, Bob Struble of iBiquity and Tim Murphy of WEEI.com. Find the event’s full schedule, and register, here.BBC’S RADIO 6 TURNS USER-GENERATED RECOMMENDATIONS INTO AN ONLINE GAMEBBC listeners can now “tag” music currently playing on Radio 6 to earn points, in a new online game called Mooso. Players assign tags — “short descriptions of the music that could be genres, instruments or even moods” — to the music or suggest similar artists.
If the player’s tags and suggestions match what other users are entering, they earn points. The more points a player receives, the higher their name rises on Mooso’s leader-board. “With Mooso, we hope to generate some rich data which describes tracks and artists and links them all together which in turn can be used to help you discover new music,” writes the BBC. “You could say this is an investigation into user-generated music recommendation.” Read more about Mooso at the BBC blog here. SACRAMENTO ALT-ROCK STATION RETURNS TO LIVE ONLINEAlternative rock station KWOD 106.5 FM in Sacramento went off the air earlier this year as the station switched formats. Now, KWOD is back as an online station dubbed eX106.5. According to The Examiner (here), KWOD’s on-air talent has returned as well.share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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