Online may be challenging TV to be UK consumers’ primary news source - but only 3.8 percent pay for it, new research says.

Spotify and Pandora (NYSE: P) may be the music brands people think of today when it comes to streaming services. But with only five million consumers using services like these today, there is clearly an opportunity for another player to emerge to try to pick up more. Enter a new…

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration to a wider world of social networks and devices, arguing that sharing is the only thing that can save the music industry and stop piracy.

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Orange have long been rivals in mobile phone markets in Europe, but as growth slows down in the region, the two are, at least in part, taking somewhat different paths in their search for fresh revenues: Vodafone is increasingly looking at its investments in emerging markets,…

More people appear to be listening to less BBC Radio through BBC iPlayer. Within one week in March, average weekly minutes for radio listened to via BBC iPlayer crashed from a record of over 200 per user to about 140 minutes, and have barely recovered.

Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC—it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the programming schedule in order to cut 20 percent from the BBC budget—largely left digital assets at the corporation untouched. But that’s mainly because the BBC had…

The BBC will axe nearly 2,000 jobs as it looks to save £670m a year in long-awaited cost-cutting plans announced on Thursday morning.

Just a few weeks after landing in the U.S., European-based streaming music service Spotify has gotten an immediate shot in the arm by being selected as one of Facebook’s partners in its new “Open Graph” design. The service, which comes with free, ad-supported and paid options, will now have the…

The UK is preparing to roll out a new, superfast mobile broadband service that would also more than double the amount of spectrum that is currently available for mobile broadband. Regulator Ofcom today announced plans to go ahead with “white spaces” broadband services, which run on unused spectrum originally allocated…

They may not have produced a band as big as The Beatles, and may bear some responsibility for the musical output of Claude Francois, but the French are hoping that a little of their savoir faire could help boost the fortunes of the struggling UK music industry.

Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC‘s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription magazines in the UK: commercial division BBC Worldwide has agreed on a multi-faceted sale of its assets, covering 34 magazine titles, to the private equity group Exponent. BBCWW has also…

We spoke with an executive very close to Spotify and several advertising executives to understand the company’s strategy behind its hybrid ad-driven/subscription model now that it has launched in the US and become a global company. We learned that Spotify was able to charge charter sponsors $1 million each for…

Radio is going digital all over the world - on DAB Digital Radio in Europe and Australia, HD Radio in the United States, and via television, satellite and the internet everywhere. One of the benefits of new digital platforms for radio is that the radio industry can launch new radio…

Absolute Radio has long been admirer of Spotify’s personalised audio ads. This spring, its advertising director wrote a piece on paidContent:UK about it. Now the broadcaster is doing its own version.

Years after CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) acquired Last.fm, the personalized streaming music service will be added to Radio.com, the broadcaster’s online player. Radio.com, which already hosts AOL’s and Yahoo’s streaming music as part of its 130 stations and was relaunched a year ago, hopes that Last.fm will complement its existing…

Radioplayer, the ambitious digital radio service backed by the BBC and commercial stations, attracted 5.7 million listeners in May, according to the first figures released by the venture on Wednesday.

The UK’s radio industry has launched a jointly-operated single destination for playing live and on-demand radio online.

The UK’s Absolute Radio network, which became a Europe launch partner for Apple’s iOS advertising system by creating an ad for its soccer coverage, has shared metrics it says show iAds is a boon for brands..

The Technology Strategy Board, a UK government-funded exploratory digital helper agency, is giving £1.8 million to a new consortium comprising Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), BT (NYSE: BT), the Internet Advertising Bureau and digital agency Somethin’ Else, to develop a “cloud radio” service codenamed “Apollo”.