Tech Roundup

Hispanics over-index in a number of mobile media usage and consumption, including watching

New research from University of Michigan / Michigan Ross Marketing Professor Kanishka Misra shows how media providers could boost online revenue with the right mix. Online content providers constantly grapple with how much to offer for free and how much to charge. Pile on too many fees for content, and customers disappear and ad revenue declines. Give away too much, and you could miss out on subscriber revenue. Customers have been known to flee websites in droves over even the slightest of fees.

BRS Media announced that dotFM, the .FM Top-Level Domain Registry, will work together with Radionomy, the no-cost internet radio creation platform, to offer clients a service that lets anyone create a music or talk Internet Radio Station with a .FM or .AM prefix.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler denied that he’s trying to divide the Internet into fast and slow lanes

AOL announced it has signed a video distribution deal with Microsoft. Beginning this summer, content from AOL brands like HuffPost Live, TechCrunch and

WebmasterRadio.FM, celebrating its 10th year of delivering original talk programming surrounding digital

StreamGuys and Orban joined forces at NAB last week to bring an affordable turnkey streaming service to market that addresses the complete internet radio ecosystem. The service will help broadcasters cover the entire media landscape of where audiences exist today — and effectively monetize streams to accelerate ROI.

U.S. mobile local ad revenues will reach $4.5 billion in 2014, up from $2.9 billion in 2013, according to BIA/Kelsey. In its Annual U.S. Local Media Forecast (2013-2018), the firm projects mobile local ad revenues to more than triple over the next five years, reaching $15.7 billion in 2018.

Four years ago, we launched our new digital media business, rethinking the way CBS’s radio and television stations operate online and in the mobile space. Since then, we have evolved into the largest digital business in local broadcast media. There are few companies that have the radio, television, digital, out-of-home, and events platforms we do, and as a result we’re able to better leverage our local market properties with national scale.

iHeartRadio announced it will be available out of the box on Amazon Fire TV, a service to watch movies, listen to music, and play games at home. iHeartRadio was also one of the first apps available and optimized on Amazon's line of Kindle Fire tablets.

On 3/14, Judge Denise Cote issued her decision in the ASCAP rate court proceeding with Pandora, setting

The Interactive Advertising Bureau released an updated version, the first since 2009, of its

While the vast majority (79%) of online U.S. adults obtain the video content they watch from traditional television

Greater Media says several of its radio shows will now make their content available via the Google Newsstand