Thursday, May 5, 2011

Pandora Finds Its Funny Bone

Last August I wrote about Pandora adding genres to its service, praising its attempt to innovate despite being the leader in its market. Luckily for its music-loving users, Pandora has continued adding to its site in 2011.

Earlier this week Pandora added comedy genres to their list of stations, letting users add stand-up routines and sketches from different decades and styles. There's a pretty good mix of stations, including a Working Class Comedy genre if you like the Blue Collar Comedy Tour style, or Golden Oldies if you fancy yourself more of a Bob Newhart person.

As with the music stations, users can like or dislike a comedy sketch with a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" voting system. Pandora's thumb-voting has been popular, and the site reported on Monday that they surpassed 10 billion thumbs.

Most people seem to like the new comedy stations, and its good to see Pandora thinking outside of the box.