US-based internet radio company Pandora has announced that it is introducing Voice Mode for mobile, a smart assistant feature similar to Amazon’s Alexa that will allow you to navigate around the app. Using the wake phrase “Hey Pandora” triggers Pandora to listen for a command, so you can use the app hands-free.
Pandora’s Podcast Genome Project goes live for all
Last month, Pandora announced it would soon be bringing its “Genome” technology to a new space outside of music: it would leverage a similar classification system to make podcast recommendations, too. Initially, the feature was only available to select users on mobile devices, ahead of a broader public launch. Today, Pandora says its Podcast Genome Project has gone live for…
Metro Chamber Annual Meeting: Workforce Key to City’s Global Growth, Local Prosperity
If there’s one word beyond all the sloganeering that defined the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s annual meeting Thursday, it might be “mirror.” Representatives of a range of companies, from BlackRock to Pandora, intimated on stage that they located in Atlanta partly because it’s an emerging tech hub, but mostly because they could see their culture and their growth ethic…
Artists to Watch 2019
Who will be 2019’s breakout artists? By checking in with our curators, analyzing music industry trends and poring over data from Pandora and Next Big Sound, we’ve selected the singers, rappers, DJs and bands we believe are poised for greatness in the coming year. Whether you’re into hip-hop or R&B, country or K-pop, rock or Latin, there’s a new face…
Pandora’s Podcast Genome Project Wants to Find Your Next Favorite Show
There are well over 500,000 podcasts in the world, covering everything from ABBA to zoology. They’ve reached such a saturation point, in fact, that there’s almost certainly a podcast out there that’s perfectly attuned to your interests—and no great way to find it. Streaming radio veteran Pandora thinks it has a solution in—what else, in 2018—an algorithm. Its Podcast Genome Project, first announced nearly…
Pandora Plans to Invade Your Holiday Travel With the Launch of ‘Sound On’
The holiday season can make you feel all kinds of emotions—happy, excited, an impending sense of doom. Who’s to say? But no matter what you feel this holiday season, Pandora wants to remind you that things are always just a little bit better with music.
The Spectacular Existential Crisis of Pandora
By the time Roger Lynch took over as the company’s fourth CEO in four years, the chances of rising from the ashes were slim. “Everyone wants to feel like they’re on a winning team, and employees really loved the company but felt like it was losing,” Lynch tells Rolling Stonenow, almost exactly one year after he…
What does the Music Modernization Act mean for your streaming subscriptions?
The Music Modernization Act (MMA) is officially law. And, as evidenced by the musician-packed Oval Office from earlier this afternoon, that means a lot of things for a lot of different people. The former bill turned law ensures artists receive the compensation they are owed, encourages fair industry competition, and protects the intellectual property rights of studios nationwide—among other…
SiriusXM to Acquire Pandora, Creating World’s Largest Audio Entertainment Company
You may have noticed that big things are happening at Pandora. Earlier today, we announced that we’ve entered into an agreement to be acquired by SiriusXM, in an all-stock transaction, valued at approximately $3.5 billion. Here’s what this means for our listeners, and why we’re excited.
Pandora will use its music discovery skills to recommend podcasts
For years, Pandora has been breaking down songs into all sorts of different characteristics in order to personalize listening experiences to each user, and now it’s applying that treatment to podcasts.