Spotify has so far converted less than 5 per cent of its userbase to paying subscribers, while France's Deezer has a meagre 0.3 per cent conversion rate,
Deezer and Spotify are accessible on iOS and Android devices)
in March 2009, the site was almost brought down by 250,000 listens in one day during London's G20 protest
the spoken word can go social
Conversation has become very private
social networks really was an opportunity to innovate in the audio space.
judged the 14th most powerful person in UK media
Audioboo's iTunes-style micropayments model
Audioboo is to begin charging its heaviest users
charge a modest sum each year for extra recording time
currently limited to five minutes
Rock also has his mind on the company's second round of funding
wants to raise £2m
art of the investment strategy is to get some presence in America
traffic or usage data end in failure
gripe with the BBC is that they're more than happy to support the big-reach American companies, such as Twitter and Facebook, and yet not support small, focused, British startups
mainstream media brand authors from the likes of CNN and the New York Times start conversations and drive a disproportionately high number of Twitter trending topic
HP's Social Computing Research Group
72%) of those accounts belonged, not to prolific tweeters or those will mass followings, but to mainstream media brands such as CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) and New York Times (@nytimes)