TuneIn announced that NFL post-season games will be available to stream on its Premium tier. It also introduced its first 24/7 team channel focused on the New England Patriots. Continue Reading
TuneIn announced a partnership with the National Football League to add football audio content to its Premium tier. The deal will give Premium listeners access to multiyear partnership with the NFL that will bring live play-by-play coverage of all NFL games from pre- to post-season to the subscription. Continue Reading
TuneIn is expanding its available programming in college football, announcing the addition of play-by-play broadcasts and team-specific stations for 90 college teams. These new features mean TuneIn listeners will be able to access almost 70% of the NCAA’s Division 1 football. The platform will also be carrying a talk program called “The College Football Blitz” from IMG. Continue Reading
TuneIn added a monthly subscription plan (“TuneIn Premium”) to its free-of-charge platform today. At the same time, the company is announcing over 60-million monthly active users. TuneIn Premium is launching with several new content initiatives. Ready for baseball? Continue Reading
TuneIn announced two deals this week that bring new radio stations to its listeners. First, it has partnered with the famed Newport Folk Festival to launch a radio station featuring the artists on this year’s lineup. The company has also launched a new station in partnership with Spaceland Presents. Continue Reading
TuneIn announced that it is launching a native app for the Xbox One game console. The app syncs with other devices that run TuneIn’s software and allows for the home screen of the console to become personalized based on what you listen to. TuneIn also takes advantage of the Xbox One’s Snap feature, which lets two programs run side-by-side on the screen. Continue Reading
Radio and stream aggregator TuneIn, and leading music-ID app Shazam, both announced new integrations with Google Now, an Android feature that resembles Apple’s Siri. Continue Reading
Friday is a big day for tech aficionados, as the much-discussed Apple Watch will finally arrive in stores. A new Apple device, even one as divisive as the smartwatch, is always cause for big buzz. In this instance, one of the notable topics is which services that we’ve come to expect on iPhones will be making the transition to the wrist. Continue Reading
Ad-rep company AudioHQ announced a new exclusive partnership to represent inventory in a portion of TuneIn’s 100,000+ streams. AudioHQ CEO Matt Cutair told RAIN News the agreement applies to select in-stream channels on TuneIn. Continue Reading
Not letting any grass grow under its feet, TuneIn announced its compatibility with Android Auto, in time for Pioneer’s launch of its new Android-enabled NEX dashboard systems. The Pioneer aftermarket solutions put Android Auto into cars for the first time, with TuneIn along with it. Continue Reading
As NCAA men’s basketball season comes upon us, TuneIn is sending a reminder that it is the exclusive distribution app for streaming the games — every game in the tournament. Last year was a big success. This year TuneIn is adding a new feature. Continue Reading
In recent editions of this feature we’ve looked at pre-roll audio ads (e.g. in Stitcher), and we regard audio pre-rolls as effective marketing that doesn’t strain the listener’s patience. We search for them in TuneIn and Pandora, and find something interesting — the second-roll. Continue Reading