searchenginejournal.com — Google reaching an agreement with XM Satellite Radio. XM will introduce commercial advertising inventory on XM???s non-music channels to Google???s extensive advertising base through Google???s dMarc media network...Google advertisers will have a simple, automated way to reach XM???s millions of subscribers nationwide and XM will have access
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tgknightAug 3, 2006
Jeez and I thought ad-free music was the reason to pay for satellite radio? Or were they thinking of having an advertisment channel where you can choose to listen to ads :)
gamerzworldAug 3, 2006
GooXM?
Closed AccountAug 3, 2006
XM is trash, what is Google thinking?Also, @ nx01XM has commercials on their music channels AND their talk channels. It's owned by clear channel, what do you expect? =x
seinmanAug 3, 2006
bgoodknight, not quite.ClearChannel has a deal with XM where they provide a certain amount of programming. This adds up to four music channels and several talk channels. CC does run advertising on their music channels. However, the other 69 XM-run music channels are commercial free, and CC certainly does not own XM.
bonkedAug 3, 2006
"XM needed to do something, Howard Stern caused a 3.5 million+ increase in subscriptions to Sirius and XM's profit was getting really low."smarusich are you sure about that - are you saying that every single person that subscribed to Sirius since before they announced the deal bought their unit to listen to Stern? That's amazing, I wonder why they even have anyone else on their networks since he was able to drive more listeners than have adopted the platform since he announced he would be on it.I guess you were listening to howie on terrestrial last July when he claimed "I've gotten more than 3.5 million subscribers to buy Sirius..." just two days before Sirius announced they had a total subscriber base of 3.3 million.Howie math, go figure. Thanks to Howie math he was able to be "the number one show in every market I'm broadcast in" even though according to Arbitron, he was actually averaging something like 7th place in every market outside of NY.
surfingAug 3, 2006
It's a Digg bug, but they could have workaround it by proofreading their work.
55samsAug 4, 2006
I forgot to mention:There is no reason to advertise on music stations that nobody listens to.
kuallaAug 4, 2006
I am dissappointed with Google for teaming up with an unethical company such as sony. Ever since the rootkits I have lost faith in anything computer related with sony. Their TV's are still pretty good, until they can interact with your computer or relay information to an external server :(