Pandora By The Numbers - hypebot

[SamAtt]

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/03/pandora-by-the-numbers.html

[groaner]

Pandora admits to 0.4% of missed searches. That is, Pandora will get stumped 0.4% of the time when you enter a song or artist

It's definitely felt a lot more like 40% for me. Pandora seems to struggle with classical music titles that lack obvious keywords.

[Qz]

"Less than 100,000 songs in the entire history of radio broadcast have ever been played"

I'm not sure I understand that line -- are they saying that in all of radio history, less than 100,000 unique songs have been played? (not counting 'unicast' pandora radio).

[guelo → Qz]

Other lines that dont make sense

Pandora makes up 1 1/4 of all radio

Pandora has 3/4 of a million songs so far; 90 million of those three-fourths were played last month

[keltex → guelo]

And it seems the last half is missing bullets.

[ibsulon → Qz]

Yes.

[ibsulon]

"During Pandora’s first year, the 90210 zip code was the area listening to Pandora the most"

This was because, to make sure that listeners were in the US, they required a zip code rather than geocoding IP.

(I was at his get together in Tucson - AMA, I guess. :)