Spotify’s Premium for Family plans have been a contentious subject in recent months, but the latest move features a high-tech perk for listeners. Through December 31, master account holders in the United States can receive a free Google Home Mini. Continue Reading
The BBC has launched its new mobile app, an effort to unite its programming in a package that will be more appealing to younger listeners. BBC Sounds, which was previewed by the broadcaster this summer, contains 80,000 hours of live and on-demand content. Continue Reading
Headliner has entered a partnership with Deutsche Welle for an enterprise rollout of its audio-to-video creation software. Under this deal, Headliner’s software will be used to create social media videos from Deutsche Welle’s audio content. “Headliner has allowed us to scale up social audio production,” said Manoj Thomas, project lead at Deutsche Welle. Continue Reading
Zeno Media, a specialist focused on streaming audio for niche and diaspora communities, announced that it has signed deals for Jamaican broadcasters. All of the major broadcasters will be available to listeners in a single new app called Zeno Jamaica. Continue Reading
Omny Studio has released a speech-to-text tool that will allow radio stations and podcasters to create transcriptions of their content. The feature, leveraging the automatic speech recognition engine from Speechmatics and Amazon Transcribe, includes 29 different language options. Continue Reading
iHeartRadio has launched in Mexico thanks to a partnership with Grupo ACIR, a leading broadcaster in the nation for more than 50 years. iHeartRadio México is available now in beta in the market and will officially launch on November 3. Continue Reading
The Audio Production Awards 2018, produced by AudioUK, has announced the shortlist of finalists in 20 categories. Continue Reading
We reported this week on Sirius XM’s financials (HERE). As usual some of the most interesting strategic insight was contained in the investor Q&A in the back end of the call. Of particular interest to investors (and to RAIN) were comments related to the Sirius acquisition of Pandora, which closed on the day of the earnings call. Continue Reading
Pandora announced the hire of a new vice president and head of brand communications. Brad Minor joins the audio company from JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he his role was managing director of brand, advertising, and media. Continue Reading
Facebook is broadening its options for how its users can integrate music into their experiences on the social media network. Those changes include an expansion of its Lip Sync Live feature and new ways to include music in posts and profiles. Continue Reading
TuneIn is expanding its perks for paying subscribers. TuneIn Premium listeners can now hear commercial-free news from radio and podcasts. Instead of the regularly scheduled commercial breaks, listeners will hear curated snippets of programming and updates that they might have missed. Continue Reading
Triton Digital announced that it has signed Grant Broadcasters, an Australian media company, as a client for its services in the delivery, monetization, and measurement of online audio content. “We are thrilled to be working with the Triton team, and are confident that their sophisticated technology will enable us to further grow and evolve our digital audio strategy, and reach our revenue goals,” said Rohan Dwyer, Grant Broadcasters’ group general manager of digital. Continue Reading