Xperi has announced its launch of DTS AutoStage Broadcaster Portal Premium.
The new premium tier of the DTS Autostage platform, which is integrated into over 16 million vehicles worldwide, gives subscribing stations access to near real-time rankings by daypart and expanded exportable music charts. The full premium features are noted as including:
- Station rankings with daypart granularity: For the first time in the radio industry, broadcasters can see exactly where their station ranks in its local market and in adjacent markets broken down by daypart: overnight, morning drive, midday, afternoon drive and evening.
- Near real-time data — by day, week, month and quarter: Instead of waiting months for delayed reports, Premium subscribers can watch patterns evolve near-real time and use them to shape everything from programming to promotions — trending their data by day, week, month or quarter — enabling broadcasters to respond to seasonal spikes, live events or schedule changes while it still matters.
- Expanded music charts — top 100 songs: Premium subscribers gain access to weekly top 100 song rankings by total listening sessions, with spins, average sessions per spin and week-over-week chart movement.
- Full data export: Every report in the Premium tier — market share, daypart activity, music charts, ranking position — can be exported and downloaded for use in advertiser presentations and sales materials.
- Enhanced combined listening heatmaps across expanded markets: Premium subscribers can view listening heatmaps with all broadcast frequencies — FM, HD and translators — combined into one unified view, as well as weekly and monthly heatmap views.
Xperi SVP/Commercial Strategy & Partnerships Joe D’Angelo said, “We knew when we first launched the DTS AutoStage Broadcaster Portal that we were capturing lightning in a bottle by providing radio stations with a level of visibility into their audience that had not previously existed. As we talked to broadcasters across the country, we worked to advance the portal to bring them exactly the kind of granular, actionable intelligence they needed. The result is our new premium tier, which for the first time in our industry, enables broadcasters of every size — from major-market leaders to local community stations — to see where their stations rank in their markets and neighboring markets, at any hour of the day!”
Xperi notes that since launching in 2023 the broadcaster portal is analyzing over 12 billion pieces of data monthly and used by thousands of stations across the country. The market sample sizes range from 247,000 in New York down to 1464 in market #302 Kokomo IN. AutoStage measures in-vehicle listening from 13 major automotive brands including Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, Hyundai, Genesis, Kia, BMW, MINI, Ford, Lincoln, Nissan, Infiniti, Tesla and Audi.
D’Angelo continued, “Sixty-six percent of U.S. adults listen to AM/FM radio daily, making radio one of the most powerful forces in media — and most of that listening is done in the car, with only the tiniest slice of that audience represented in traditional listening analytics. Our DTS AutoStage Broadcaster Portal Premium opens up a much wider window into listener behavior, one that telescopes right into where audiences are listening, when they are listening, how long they are listening, and the content they enjoy most — delivering that intelligence with unprecedented speed and scope for smarter programming, decisions, stronger audience connections and new opportunities for monetization.”
The new premium tier went live today and will be demonstrated at Xperi’s booth (#C2259) at the NAB Show. Stations can sign-up for the portal and premium at https://onboarding.connectedrad.io/.
