If you're a Pandora user, chances are you just helped the Internet radio company reach a new milestone. Pandora announced Tuesday that it now has 100 million registered users and 36 million monthly active users.
But that's not the only notable news about the service. Pandora is also unveiling a new Web site it's been working on for the past year, ditching Flash in favor of HTML5, the company announced in a separate post. The site will roll out gradually so that Pandora can help listeners acclimate to the new site as well as get user feedback. Paid Pandora One subscribers will be the first to glimpse the revamped site, and the full launch will happen "later this year."
Pandora describes the new site as faster, more social, and easier to use. Beyond its brand-new design, some of the new features include improved search; better control of the music player; the ability to learn more about the track you're playing; a music feed that shows what your friends are listening to and allows for comments; and a profile that keeps a history of which songs get a thumbs-up on the site.
Pandora went public last month, debuting on the New York Stock Exchange at $20 a share, valuing the company at $3.2 billion. In the next week, the stock price climbed to $26 only to fall to about half of that a few days later. However, the company boasts that it has secured 3.6 percent of all radio listening in the U.S., an increase from the 2.2 percent share it held six months ago.