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Analysis of 3Q Financial Results of Pandora
Good News
1、User stickness is growing. Average listening hours per user per quarter is 53,up 4 from last quarter
2、content cost remain 50% of revenue, the same with last quarter, considering mobile listening hours percentage has grown to over 70% with lower ads rate (about $23 RPM), this is good sign.
Bad news
1、 Revenue growth is decelerating, 1Q\2Q\3Q\4Q revenue growth over last year's same quarter is 136%\117%\99%\78%。The full year of growth of this year is about 102%,while 60~70% next year.
2、Subscriptions fees account for 12% of total revenue,1 point lower from last quarter,declining due to the cap of 40 hours per month being removed.
Here is my full analysis,but in Chinese
Google should take over Pandora
这两天云音乐真是高潮迭起,先是Spotify以堪比盗版价提供1300万首随时随地的音乐,年费$120,在美国一面市就夺得百万付费用户;但好景不长,这周苹果推出iTunes,可以将你已经拥有的任何音乐,包括盗版的,自动匹配到苹果商店里的正版音乐,然后可以下载、在线收听,年费只要$25;刚过三天,今天Google 推出Google Music,竟然免费!不要钱,不要钱也提供服务,可惜不能将盗版音乐洗成正版。但是,如果有人先盗版,然后上苹果匹配成正版,然后上传到Google的云端,这样的话,苹果每年赚取年费的美梦也要破灭了,更不要说每支歌$1卖音乐了。
可怜的Pandora接连受打击,几大巨头混战,P的命运如何?还不如卖身给Google算了,因为Google本身就是搜索,而其音乐搜索匹配能力差劲得很,有了Pandora立即就可以完美结合。
Who fear Apple's iTune Match?
Pandora这两天的下跌也许与此相关,但我觉得,这对Spotify的打击也许更大,因为音乐的可得性越来越容易,剩下的价值也在于谁能提供音乐的“发现”功能,或许可以这样说,既然数据的传输与存储越来越容易,云音乐代替存储、流媒体订阅代替CD出售/出租,那么Google/Apple/Spotify等等,都在争夺音乐的提供服务上,谁能真正替代Pandora的音乐发现与匹配功能呢?