XM Satellite Radio has just unveiled a new website. Featuring a brand new look-and-feel, slicker styling and updated graphic treatments. The new xmradio.com (finally) reflects a "new media" company.
The homepage is actually far simplified from it's previous version (and has some similarities to Sirius' layout), but the changes don't stop there - the entire website to non-subscribers has been upgraded.
I dig it and think it's a much needed change. What does everyone else think?
Another example of XM being the follower.
wow, opie and anthony. their show is terrible. sirius rules!
I'm waiting to see if their customer care account area is back open to Firefox and Mac users. Their last version stupidly blocked all non-IE traffic. I recently had an email from XM that said this would be fixed, so I hope it's been done now.
yeah, because the sirius website was so revolutionary. even today scholars still say it changed the web because it was so groundbreaking.
give me a break.
Seems overreliant on gray. The listening online experience is no different. Still the same looking player.
wow...somebody's been studying the sirius website. They almost look like mirrored websites, with different colors :) lol
Long overdue! The site navigates much easier and quicker than the old, including the subscription information. Change is good!!
Why does this look like Sirius's?
I don't see much similarity to the Sirius site.
XM has done a good job here in that the new site is much simpler and easier to navigate than SIRI's (and certainly than XM's previous site) and has some interesting and useful built-in applications/features.
After lagging SIRI's website for over a year, I think XM has moved ahead with these changes. It will be interesting to see whether the Listener Care interface, once they have it running, is improved or just looks better.
The one thing i do not like is that many of the channels that a PDF schedule are now gone.
I like the "What's on" feature on the channel pages. Sirius' website doesn't have that.
It seems they also integrated the features of the XM Test Drive Website into it as well.
The artist search feature is just great. While this has been around on various websites, XM's implementation is extremely fast and well-designed.
You know, its not like SIRI created the website to end all websites any ways. I think that we can all say that XM improved that old POS website they had. But then again, would it have taken that much in the first place to improve? God, I hope not.
Ya, the features on the website look a lot easier to use and understand. Whats all the bickering about how one websites resemebles another? They are webistes in the first place, just like most humans have two legs is that they next things we are going to argue over? Damn people with two legs.
Gee, when are people gonna leave intelligent comments instead of "this sucks" and "the other service is better". How about just saying you like the site or not and why. This article has nothing to do about Opie and Anthony except for the fact they are pictured on the front page. Maybe you should actually check the site out and form your own opinion.
I don't just admire Sirius's rags to riches story, I really hate XM for their lame management that cost me bucks having believed in ( Panero the loser )their incompentent asses.
With that said, this is major nice and I'm glad they fillany got it.
I think it looks great. Clean, most of the page is above the fold at 1024x768, they tell you what it is, what the channels are, how to get it, and help you choose the appropriate radio for your usage. They've also upgraded the listener care site and it works with Firefox (haven't tried Safari). Regardless of what company you prefer, you can't deny that XM has been improving their marketing. Great new ads, the baseball promotions and a website that addresses most of the complaints from the Clickz review.
The site looks nice, but the content is just as out of date and incorrect as ever. And as someone else noted, now the PDFs of the full schedule of various channels are no longer available. Why can't a company the size of XM have a Web site that's up-to-date and correct about its own programming? It's really astonishing.
>>> Regardless of what company you prefer, you can't deny that XM has been improving their marketing. Great new ads, the baseball promotions and a website that addresses most of the complaints from the Clickz review.
Absolutely true. The changes XM has implemented have been good and fast and I suspect they will be successful in repositioning XM as the dominant retail player. Perhaps not by the end of Q4, but these changes with those that are still upcoming will undoubtedly make a difference during the selling season.
Look how O&A are failing on the brand new XM frontpage. I heard Huge Panera hates them. Their contract will be up in October 2005. I heard. I have people behind the scenes.
"Look how O&A are failing on the brand new XM frontpage. I heard Huge Panera hates them. Their contract will be up in October 2005. I heard. I have people behind the scenes."
So according to "your people", the contact expired a year ago?
I love the fact that people still do not know how to navigate a web site. :)
XM main page>>What we offer>>>View our complete lineup>>>Complete Channel line up PDF icon.
Or
XM main page>>>On XM>>>Channel line up>>>Complete channel line up PDF icon.
Ok, everybody got that?
>>>> I don't just admire Sirius's rags to riches story,
LOL. You mean rags to losing well over a billion dollars in 2006?
Stackpointer.... the entire universe except you and House toady Jacoby knows that Sirius is kicking XM's hiney down the street like a lowly tin can.
XM couldn't draw straws with itself and win.
>> XM main page,On XM,Channel line up,Complete channel line up PDF icon.
We're not talking about the channel lineup PDF, we're talking about the PDFs for each individual channel that gave a whole week's programming at a glance, 24/7. This is especially important for XMPR and the other talk channels. I might have missed it, but it sure looks like these very important schedules are no longer available.
"So according to "your people", the contact expired a year ago?"
That's right. All you Oralia and Anusetta listeners are being duped by stuff that was pre-recorded over a year ago by Eric Hogan.
Bubba and Howard are going to whomp hard on XM now that O&A are gone. No website redesign is going to help them. There's gonna be more strippers, more irrelevant self-aggrandizing, more sybians, more tough guy talk from O-town, and even more babbling sycophantic holes.
Loving the site. Case in point knowing whats playing, just about anywhere you go.
Read this, lol
http://xmradio.com/onxm/channelbio.xmc?ch=54
Sirius site is so great that Al Gore invented it along with the internet of course