Indústria automóvel puxa pela rádio na internet

«Welcome to the new generation of corporate radio, coming to you live from an auto dealership near you. Car manufacturers are racing to establish Internet radio stations and online playlisting tools as part of a new marketing strategy aimed at hip, tech-savvy young adults. The latest, and so far the biggest, effort comes from Toyota's Scion division, which in July added 17 Internet radio channels to its experimental Scion Broadband microsite. Each channel features three hours of music that is looped 24/7 and updated monthly. The company tapped Live365 for the Internet radio technology, and 15 DJs from such partners as Vice Records and Ninja Tune Records for programming. (...) If Scion's online experiment proves successful, it's likely that more consumer brands of all stripes, and not just automakers, will launch their own online entertainment sites. As yet, though, the jury's out. While the main Scion Web site averages around 750,000 hits per month, the Broadband microsite averages merely 10,000. But that's with almost no marketing to date. With the addition of the Internet radio element, the company plans to begin advertising the service in hopes of seeing traffic increase.»

fonte: «Auto manufacturers enter Internet radio race», Antony Bruno, Reuters, Aug 19, 2007

O site da Toyota: http://www.scion.com/broadband/