Spotify Premium users to get Audiobook access
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Spotify Premium users to get Audiobook access

Spotify Premium users are to get Audiobook access for up to 15 hours per month as part of their subscription plan. The offer is slightly caveated as only Premium subscribers as well as plan managers for Family and Duo accounts will be eligible and only for users in the UK and Australia. Subscribers in the US are expected to be added later this year. Over 150,000 audiobooks will be available in this offering. 10-hour top […]

SOURCE: DJ Zog - Zog Radio
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Zog Radio

Zog Radio was an internet radio station broadcasting a CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream. In October 2022 DJ Zog announced that “Zog internet radio will be on hiatus”. He continued “I know this has got a lot of positive feedback, but for a while this service will be shut down as I have too much on my plate. This could very likely be started up again in future, if so I will note here.” The […]

Spotify launches Audiobooks in US
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Spotify launches Audiobooks in US

Update: 27/11/2022 – On Tuesday 22nd November, Spotify announced that audiobooks are also now available for purchase in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Spotify launches Audiobooks in US where Spotify listeners will be able to purchase and listen to more than 300,000 audiobook titles. The new service comes with a brand-new user interface that’s geared specifically for listening to audiobooks and fits them seamlessly alongside the music and podcasts available in the apps. […]

How do consumers listen to music?
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How do consumers listen to music?

How do consumers listen to music was the question posed by YouGov as part of its ongoing research into the music industry. The study asked consumers in the US, Britain, Germany, Indonesia and Australia how they listened to music. Car radio is still the most popular activity Data reveals that listening to music radio in a car is popular among a majority of consumers across four in five markets of the survey and is the most common way […]

Quarter of Australian households own 3 or more smart speakers
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Quarter of Australian households own 3 or more smart speakers

Quarter of Australian households own 3 or more smart speakers according to a recent study conducted by Edison Research on behalf of Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) and TalkVia. The findings are published in The Smart Audio Report Australia 2021 which brings together the results of an online survey of 5000 Australian adults aged 18 and older conducted in April and May 2021. The new Smart Audio Report Australia finds that 24% of smart speaker households own three or more of the […]

The Infinite Dial 2021 Australia Report
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Radio still listened to by 86% of Australians

Radio still listened to by 86% of Australians and 37% are reached by podcasting each month according to a recent study conducted by Edison Research on behalf of Commercial Radio Australia (CRA), Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) and Triton Digital. The findings are published in The Infinite Dial 2021 Australia which brings together the results of a representative sample of 1000 Australians aged 12 and older conducted in the first quarter of 2021. Key findings from the Infinite Dial 2021 Australia report AM/FM/DAB+ […]

Qobuz launches in Australia, New Zealand and Northern Europe
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Qobuz launches in Australia, New Zealand and Northern Europe

Qobuz launches in Australia, New Zealand and Northern Europe its HiRes streaming and download service. It will be opening in six new countries: Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. Qobuz is now present in 12 countries. In Europe: in France, where the platform was born, in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the US since 2019. Qobuz was founded in 2007 with a mission to provide a […]