Pandora has pulled the curtain off of its all-you-can-eat streaming service, called Pandora Premium, expected to be released in the first quarter of next year.
Pandora Reveals its Spotify Competitor, Pandora Premium
Billboard
Andrew Flanagan
Strategy Analytics Finds Streaming To Account For 95% Of Mobile Music By 2022
All Access Music Group
All Access Music Group
The report “Global Mobile Music Forecast 2010-2022” finds that despite a decline in full-track downloading segment, overall growth in streaming music, both paid and ad-funded free services, are driving the market growth.
Changing Their Tunes: How Consumers Adoption of Online Streaming Affects Music Consumption and Discovery
Marketing Science
Hannes Datta, George Knox & Bart J. Bronnenberg
In this paper, we study how the adoption of music streaming affects listening behavior. Using a unique panel data set of individual consumers’ listening histories across many digital music platforms, adoption of streaming leads to very large increases in quantity and diversity of consumption in the first months after adoption.
Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data
Information Economics and Policy
Luis Aguiar & Bertin Martens
This paper analyses the behaviour of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects of illegal downloading and legal streaming on the legal purchases of digital music.
Even the Losers Get Lucky Sometimes: New Products and the Evolution of Music Quality
Information Economics and Policy
Luis Aguiar & Joel Waldfogel
Using comprehensive digital sales data by time and vintage on the US, Canada, and 15 European countries, we infer the evolution of music vintage quality, finding that vintage service flow has increased since 2000.