Pandora Radio: Fire Unprofitable Customers? By Chih-Hsin Chen and Pinar S. Ozer 11.10.11 Management Information Systems -INFO 503 Prof. Ross Malaga Fall 2011 Online Radio History Before 2000 The beginning of online radio could trace back to the 1990s. Arround year 1996‚ Nullsoft and Microsoft released streaming audio players as free downloads. Internet radio attracted significant media and investor attention in the late 1990s and the early 2000s. Pandora Radio Started
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strategy. Eventually‚ Pandora had no choice but to to reintroduce a subscription model and cap free listening hours at 40 per month‚ and request ‘a buck for the tip jar’ for the remaining days in the month. • Advertisement Based: One of the key elements to Pandora’s advertising strategy is that they have to ability to leverage their user database with demographic and geographic information that would allow advertisers to stream custom advertisements to their audience. Pandora was able to provide
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Pandora Media‚ Inc.‚ formerly Savage Beast Technologies Incorporated‚ is an internet radio service in the United States‚ Australia and New Zealand. Pandora Media‚ Inc. is a free personalized radio that plays music and comedy. It has music and comedy alike that all can enjoy. You just have to start with the name of a favorite artist‚ song‚ comedian or composer and Pandora will create a custom station that plays those similar tracks for your hearing. There are hundreds of music and comedy genre
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Question 2 Slide 1 and 2– Pandora Horizontal conflict Pandora used to have its target on desktop usage. Now it is switching to mobile and cars‚ with mobile adds growing faster than any other form. (We are going to see the numbers later). This happens to create an internal horizontal competition among its vehicle distribution channels and causes a necessity to invest resources in each of them at the same time. Slide 3 – Pandora vertical conflicts Pandora’s membership v.s. advertising sales
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Of Doing Business: Pandora Radio As if the music industry has not seen enough change in recent years‚ Pandora Radio has started yet another music revolution. This time‚ however‚ the revolution is not about how the music is stored and collected (LP/CD/MP3 transformation)‚ or how music is purchased (Record Stores/ iTunes transformation)‚ but how we actually listen to music. Pandora Radio has created an amazing technology‚ which allows users to create and customize their own radio stations that automatically
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some key elements changed. These element changes were major catalysts in leading Pandora through its venture from a company who in late 2005 was faced with major financial issues‚ to in 2013 the most successful business for subscription to radio service. Pandora coming into the race had a first -mover advantage because they were the first on the music supply scene with an algorithm that puts together a personal radio station based on the consumer’s tastes. This algorithm customized the consumers
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Pandora According to Greek mythos‚ Pandora‚ which means “all-gifted”‚ was the first woman on Earth and made out of clay by Hephaestus under Zeus’s order. Pandora was made for vengeance‚ Zeus had her made to give to Epimetheus‚ brother of Prometheus as revenge for giving fire to mortals. Other gods gave her talents such as beauty‚ persuasion‚ curiosity‚ music‚ etc.to make her more appealing to Epimetheus. At her wedding Zeus gave Pandora a beautiful box‚ which he instructed never to open. Although
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vital information or private information on my account. I use the free version of pandora so it doesn’t have any of my credit card numbers‚ therefore I don’t mind having my station open for others to use or view. 2. How could someone use this information unethically? Someone could use this information unethically by stealing someone’s account and making it their own. For example if someone were to pay for their pandora account‚ and another person were to hack into their account without permission
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like vases and paintings have scenes of a statute like woman or gods surrounding the same woman. The Greek people and gods called this woman Pandora. Pandora was a woman that was born from the clay of the earth and was molded by the god Hephaistos‚ Pandora was the first woman to ever have been formed by the clay of the earth the gods truly believe that Pandora was a true masterpiece that needed to be applauded and worshiped.
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The message of colors Pandora is a famous retail chain store dealing in jewelry and delicate trinkets. The ad published by Pandora to promote their sales featured a collaboration with the breast cancer funding organization titled Susan G Kormen. A beautiful bracelet stretches out across the ad with the breast cancer logo charms. It is an attractive and eye catching piece because of the shiny polished alternate gold and silver surfaces and pink stones lined around the charms and links occasionally
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