In spite of 250 years of taxonomic classification and over 1.2 million species already catalogued in a central database, our results suggest that some 86% of existing species on Earth and 91% of species in the ocean still await description.
The new service won't win anyone over on price. Pandora Premium is anchored to the same $9.99 a month price point of Spotify, with 50 million paid accounts, and Apple Music, which topped 20 million premium users late last year.
There are also ads in Pandora Mobile for mobile phones and the Pandora in The Home computer appliance. As of October 2014, less than 5% of active listeners were paying subscribers. As of IPO, Pandora had 800,000 tracks from 80,000 artists in its library, and 80 million users. By November 2014, Pandora had approximately doubled its library size, topping 1.5 million songs. As of June 2015, Pandora had 79.4 million active users. During its 2011 fiscal year, Pandora reported $138 million in revenue with a $1.8 million net loss, excluding the cost of a special dividend associated with the IPO.