Audioboom Launches New Android App

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Audioboom Group PLC

24 February 2015

 

Audioboom Group plc

("Audioboom" or the "Company")

Audioboom Launches New Android App

Audioboom (AIM: BOOM), the leading spoken-word audio on-demand mobile platform, announces that it will relaunch its Android app with an updated design and a host of new features tomorrow.

The new app - which will be available from Google Play - launches shortly after the announcement of the Company's partnership with comedian and presenter, Russell Brand, who will be recording The Russell Brand Podcast exclusively for the platform.

The platform currently has 3.4 million registered users around the world, and works with over 2,300 global content partners and broadcasters.

The Android app includes:

·     a completely redesigned interface in line with the Audioboom iOS app;

·     Your Player, which plays the freshest content from the channels and people the user is following, plus trending and relevant audio from the categories they like;

·     a custom-built recommendations engine to learn what audio the listener loves;

·     a download function to save audio posts for offline listening with one swipe;

·     an updated record, trim and upload function to let the user quickly create their own clips to share with the world.

Rob Proctor, CEO of Audioboom, commented:

"The launch of our iOS app at the end of last year was a huge success, and we're excited now at long last to bring the same functionality to our Android users. We believe we are reinventing radio consumption for the digital age, and the new app allows people the opportunity to listen and curate audio when they want to. Having moved from user generated content to high quality, professional content, we are rapidly becoming the Netflix for audio."

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About Audioboom (www.audioboom.com)

Audioboom Group plc is a digital social media audio platform enabling the creation, broadcast and consumption of audio across multiple global media outlets. Audioboom works with some of the biggest names in broadcasting across sport, entertainment and current affairs to bring their content to millions of listeners worldwide via Facebook, Twitter and other media platforms.

The technology allows partners to embed playlists onto their sites and apps, use our mobile apps and functionality as listen again players and re-syndicate their content around the web.

Audioboom also allows the monetisation of audio via the dynamic insertion of pre and post roll advertising into content as a user is listening, allowing contemporary advertising selection, depending on content genre and geographic location of the user.

Audioboom currenty has over 2,300 content partners, including the BBC, Telegraph, Guardian, CBS, Sky Sports, Sky News Radio, Premier League, Southern Cross Austereo, Reuters, CNBC, Universal and Fox.

 

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