Accuradio.com: The Next Generation of Radio

Devin Nixon, Jaclyn Nix, Kit Necker, and Monica Pena

2. On the website you can click on different genres at the top of the screen in order to listen to music. Another option is to use a search engine to look up artists. However, when you look on the search engine for the artists it does not come up with the artists songs. It shows you the different genres the artist can be classified under.

3. In order to listen to music you have to go by genre. But once you select the type of genre you want to listen to you can control what artist you want and which ones you do not. There is also away to skip forward but you cannot go back and play a song or artist you already listen to.

4. Listeners cannot buy music directly from AccuRadio. This site sells CD’s through Amazon and sells a close estimate of $40,000 through Amazon links; also directly influences up to $400,000 more sales from other retailers. The Amazon logo can be found on the pop-up radio window, which also contains advertising on the bottom of the screen. More advertising can be found on the top and right side of every web page. Commercials are played in between songs and listeners cannot skip them. Another form of advertising this site uses is showing the album cover of the song being played. A subscription is not necessary to listen to the AccuRadio; one could join a newsletter using an email address to receive new information and updates. This website’s earnings come directly from advertising and the commission percentage from Amazon’s CD sales. AccuRadio also has a webpage with more advertising information.
http://accuradio.com/advertising/

#5) Accuradio.com doesn't have stations based off of celebrity playlists but it does have customizable stations that you can listen to.It tends to stick to different genres like rock and "pop", except for it takes it a little bit further and breaks those down into more categories like canadian pop and american pop for example. It also has some playlists based on moods like the playlist "chill". there wasn't very many I hadn't heard of, but there was one or two like the "melodies and memories" playlist but I think it is usually called something else.

6. The most unique features on this site are all the pictures on the frontpage with all the different varieties of genres of music. On each pictureit says the type of music with a picture that encorporates with thatgenre, either with a picture, or an artist or band from that genre. If youhover over the pictures the pictures it tells you a definition of whatthat type of genre of music is that you may proceed looking at. You canclick on these picture and it takes you to the radio listings for thatgenre to listen to music.