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2013 NAB Show in Las Vegas The annual NAB trade show, produced by the National Association of Broadcasters, was held in Las Vegas this past weekend. The NAB show is the largest, and most talked about B2B event for media and entertainment professionals. They all come together at the NAB Show for creative inspiration and next-generation…

The Infinite Dial 2013: Navigating Digital Platforms  Arbitron/Edison just released their yearly report called "The Infinite Dial 2013" on Tuesday. The study provides estimates of emerging digital platforms and their impact on the media landscape based on self-reported consumer behaviors and attitudes. Online radio continues its growth trajectory reaching new highs for weekly usage and…

Streaming Revenues Now Surpass $1 Billion In the US According to revenue statistics shared with Digital Music News by label trade group RIAA, it includes everything from Spotify to Pandora to YouTube to Sirius XM Radio. Anything that falls under 'access' instead of 'ownership,' ad-supported or subscription. "Collectively, [access services] went from just 3 percent…

New Traffic Player App Available on Cirrus™ We have just added a new Player App to the Cirrus™ Player, a traffic map. Now your listeners are able to see current traffic updates via your player anytime they want. All traffic is updated instantly and displayed in real-time. It defaults to the listener's location to show…

Check Us Out on Alexa.comCheck us out on Alexa.com and see how well we rank in the US and worldwide. If you have never heard of Alexa.com before, they are the number one website traffic ranking service on the web. We currently rank 22,612 globally and 6,587 in the US (the lower the rank, the…

HTML5 - Why Not? HTML5 has been a buzzword flying around the Internet for quite some time now. We've had many people ask if our new Cirrus™ Player would be built using HTML5. Although it seemed like a good idea at the time, we decided that it was best to avoid that route. Then after,…

Connect your now playing information to your Twitter account ASAP. Why? We just added two top trending hashtags at the end of each automated tweet - #nowplaying and #listenlive. Each time your player refreshes to a new song or segment, it provides a short link to your player (allowing anyone to pop the player open…

More Music Being Listened To On Tablets And Smartphones Mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones, are increasingly being used as portable music players, according to the new "Audio Consumption Study" from global information company The NPD Group. Forty percent of tablet owners report they use it to listen to music, while 56% of smartphone users…

Just Added to Cirrus™ - Custom RSS Feeds Last week we announced that stations could insert a custom RSS feed for the News App on the Cirrus™ Player. But now we have just added the ability for stations to insert a custom RSS feed for the Finance App and choose an ESPN category feed for…

Check out two new features we have added to our Cirrus™ Player. Make sure you're getting the most out of your streaming! Upload Your Own Default Album Art You now have the ability to replace the default album art placeholder with something of your own. For songs where album art is not available, you can…

Online Advertising Growth - Targeting a Factor Marketers say the most important benefit of online advertising, compared to offline advertising, is online's more accurate targeting capabilities, according to a study conducted by Forrester Consulting. (click image to enlarge) The study notes that targeted media are the most highly valued, with traditional paid search (78% rating…

Check our some of the new streaming features we just added to our Cirrus ™ Player. Stream Backup - You can now select your on-demand files to automatically kick in if your live stream goes down. This is seamless and takes over immediately upon loss of stream signal. i.e. encoder goes down, studio DSL drops,…

Securenet Systems has just released a brand new player, the Cirrus Player. Sign up or upgrade your player today and see why Cirrus is our best player yet. With more features than ever before, Cirrus Player is intended to provide you with the tools and features needed to increase listening time and user interaction. Click…

Happy New Year from all of us at Securenet Systems! Thank you for making 2012 such a great year for us! As you ring in the new year, what types of things will you be doing to increase online listenership? Now that online listening numbers are higher than ever, you should be making sure you're…

Last Chance! Only 4 days left to claim your free tablet, after you choose a payment option. Take your pick between the Nexus 7 tablet -or- the Kindle Fire HD tablet. The Kindle Fire HD, made by Amazon, is a 7" tablet with 16GB of storage as well as free, unlimited cloud storage for your…

It Gets Better... Now you can get a Kindle Fire HD, on us. We've extended our pre-pay offer and now you have the option to choose either the Nexus 7 tablet -or- the Kindle Fire HD tablet. The Kindle Fire HD, made by Amazon, is a 7" tablet with 16GB of storage as well as…

The holidays are coming up... Treat yourself to a free Nexus 7 tablet from Securenet Systems. The Nexus 7, made by Google, is a 7" light-weight Android tablet with 16GB of storage. Surf the web or run your favorite Google Play apps (like your station's Android app). The Nexus 7 is a hot item this…

Brace yourself - Our newest mobile streaming Android app v5 has just been released! This version is unlike any of our previous apps. With way more features, a sleek eye-catching layout, and a user-friendly interface, you'll want to make sure you have the v5. Don't worry, our v5 iOS app will be released soon as…