New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Pandora (NYSE:P), the leading
Internet radio service, today announced it has completed its acquisition of leading online music analytics provider, Next Big Sound, for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition gives
Pandora a powerful analytics tool used by tens of thousands of music makers, labels and marketers looking for data and insights about artists and their fans.
Next Big Sound's capabilities augment Pandora's data-driven Artist Marketing Platform for music makers, featuring both Artist Insights as well as Artist Audio Messaging. Similarly, Pandora's data, which reflects insights from nearly 80 million active monthly users, will be added to Next Big Sound's offering and deliver an unprecedented trove of information to the music industry.
For more about Pandora's acquisition of Next Big Sound, check out our blog.
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ABOUT NEXT BIG SOUND
Launched in 2009, Next Big Sound is the leading provider of online music analytics and insights tracking hundreds of thousands of artists around the world. Next Big Sound gathers social, sales and streaming data into one central platform. Sources range from Facebook and Twitter, to Wikipedia, artist websites, Spotify, YouTube, and iTunes. To put this information into context, event data such as concerts, release dates, television appearances and press mentions are incorporated, as well as the rich demographic data that helps artists become better acquainted with their fan base. Next Big Sound is used by tens of thousands of individual bands and managers as well as the biggest labels, distributors and brands in the world. Next Big Sound powers the Social 50 and Next Big Sound branded chart for Billboard and is based in NYC.
