Pandora announces redesign, 100 millionth user

Andre Yoskowitz
12 Jul 2011 14:12

Pandora has announced today that the streaming music service has reached 100 million users, with 36 million being active monthly.
Additionally, the company has completely revamped their design, including the desktop and mobile versions of the site, and the redesign will go live in the very near future.

You can view some pics of the new design (and functionality) here.
Says CTO Tim Conrad:

I’ve been looking at it for seven years. I was ready to give it a fresh coat of paint. We started on it about a year ago. But even earlier than that, we’d been talking about it. There were core navigation problems that needed fixing. At first, we had been talking about more incremental changes, with the site still operating in Flash. But then last summer, it became clear that browsers with full HTML5 capabilities had gained enough support. We realized we could do the full Pandora experience without Flash.

Pandora recently went public, raising over $100 million and now has a market value of $3 billion.

The company says it now has 3.6 percent of the U.S. radio listening market share, a 50 percent increase from last year.