Pandora acquires Ticketfly
MUMBAI: Early last month was flooded with information on Pandora’s plans of acquiring Ticketfly – the software which provides marketing and ticketing software to approximately 1,200 venues and promotes events across North America. The deal was to be cracked for a whopping $450 million.
Pandora is the exclusive streaming partner for Serial Season two
MUMBAI:Pandora, the world’s largest music discovery platform, is the exclusive streaming partner for breakout podcast Serial. This partnership offers new and exciting content for Pandora’s highly engaged audience of more than 78 million monthly listeners.
Santigold partners with Toyota and VH1 Save The Music to present New Orleans area School with Music Education Grant
MUMBAI: Toyota and VH1 Save The Music have completed their national music festival activation and social media campaign to benefit music education.
BBC will let kids 'takeover' for Commissioner Takeover Challenge
MUMBAI: In an effort to educate kids about nature and the operation inside its organisation, British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) has joined the national Children's Commissioner Take Over Challenge initiative.
Apurva Purohit becomes president of Jagran Group
MUMBAI: Jagran Prakashan Ltd, which acquired Radio City, has elevated Apurva Purohit to the post of president of the Jagran Group. For the last ten years, Purohit led Radio City, and in her new role she will now oversee the entire business of the company- Jagran Group.
Bengaluru records highest TSL compared to other cities
MUMBAI: According to latest RAM report for Week 42, Radio City in Bengaluru, recorded a double digit TSL of 10.29, with a market share of 22.1 per cent and TARP of 2.8, which once again made it the leading radio station in the city.
Radio 6 Music launches listeners vote for the greatest band t-shirt of all time
MUMBAI: BBC Radio 6 Music’s ‘Wear Your Old Band T-Shirt To Work Day’ is set to return this year on Friday 27 November. As part of this year’s celebrations, in his show today (Monday 2 November, 4-7pm), Steve Lamacq launches a listener vote to find the greatest band T-shirt of all time.
Officer's Choice Blue Mirchi Top 20 rocks India
MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi and Officer's Choice Blue Snacks took India’s longest running music countdown show to music lovers across Indore with the very first Officer’s Choice Blue Mirchi Top 20 Live concert.
Ed Sheeran makes 63,000 pounds per show
MUMBAI: Singer Ed Sheeran rakes in 63,000 pounds a show during his marathon world tour, so much so that the ‘Thinking Out Loud’ hitmaker had minted a staggering amount of 6.2 million pounds barely half way through his 17-month-long 'X' tour.
Harman International witness increase in net sales; Lifestyle audio sales up
MUMBAI: Audio equipment company, Harman International industries, witnessed an increase of 14 per cent including currency changes (23 per cent increase excluding currency changes), from $1.4 billion in Q1 2015 (ending on 30 September) to $1.6 billion in Q1 2016.
