Comments on: Alternative revenue ideas for Pandora http://blog.geeklimit.com/2007/01/10/alternative-revenue-ideas-for-pandora/ GeekLimit.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:09:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Tom Conrad http://blog.geeklimit.com/2007/01/10/alternative-revenue-ideas-for-pandora/comment-page-1/#comment-1108 Tom Conrad Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:28:03 +0000 http://geeklimit.com/2007/01/10/alternative-revenue-ideas-for-pandora/#comment-1108 These are all great suggestions. We're always looking for feedback on all we do and have heard lots of great ideas from our listeners over the last year. One example is the "move this song to another station" feature we recently added. That came directly from listener suggestion emails. We add hundreds of songs each week based on listener requests as well. This time at bat we did a pretty bad job communicating about what we were up to with respect to audio ads. We've just put a post up on our blog that opens the conversation up to anyone that wants to comment. We should have done that from the start. Your other ideas are excellent. We'd certainly love to see a Pandora go mobile and stimulating music purchases is a big win for both Pandora and the artists. Practically speaking there just not enough margin in CD/download sales to even begin to cover our licensing and bandwidth costs, but every little bit helps. If nothing else being proactive about sharing new music releases with a bands demonstrated fans feels like a win for everyone regardless of the financial rewards. Thanks again for the part you're playing in this conversation. it's a big help. Tom CTO @ Pandora These are all great suggestions. We’re always looking for feedback on all we do and have heard lots of great ideas from our listeners over the last year. One example is the “move this song to another station” feature we recently added. That came directly from listener suggestion emails. We add hundreds of songs each week based on listener requests as well. This time at bat we did a pretty bad job communicating about what we were up to with respect to audio ads. We’ve just put a post up on our blog that opens the conversation up to anyone that wants to comment. We should have done that from the start.

Your other ideas are excellent. We’d certainly love to see a Pandora go mobile and stimulating music purchases is a big win for both Pandora and the artists. Practically speaking there just not enough margin in CD/download sales to even begin to cover our licensing and bandwidth costs, but every little bit helps. If nothing else being proactive about sharing new music releases with a bands demonstrated fans feels like a win for everyone regardless of the financial rewards.

Thanks again for the part you’re playing in this conversation. it’s a big help.

Tom
CTO @ Pandora

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