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TuneIn Closes Record Year With 500M+ Monthly Listening Hours, 31 Percent Increase In Overall Listening HoursSAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- TuneIn, Inc., the leading global live audio streaming service, today announced that more than half a billion listening hours had been generated on the platform during the month of December, closing out a record year for the company. It also saw a 31 percent year-over-year increase in overall listening hours.
"TuneIn's mission is to provide the audio content listeners crave everywhere they want to be and our record-breaking listening hours in 2018 clearly demonstrate we are doing just that," said John Donham, Chief Executive Officer at TuneIn. "By creating and partnering with quality content, collaborating with household brands on one-of-a-kind engagements and integrating with premier technology partners, we couldn't be more excited for what the future holds for TuneIn and our 75 million listeners around the globe." In addition to setting a company record for number of listening hours, TuneIn achieved several other notable milestones in 2018, including providing new, unique content offerings, strong brand and integration partnerships. New, Unique Content Further broadening the reach of high-quality content to highly engaged audio lovers, TuneIn renewed and added a variety of new stations to the platform in 2018, including The Element, a new hip-hop station featuring never-before-heard music and artists, that is both uncensored and expertly curated, and its West Coast-specific sister station, The Element West. The company also signed a multi-year partnership agreement that brought all of 441 CUMULUS MEDIA's owned-and-operated stations across 90 U.S. markets to the TuneIn platform, as well as distribution of the podcasts from Westwood One Podcast Network. Strong Brand and Distribution Partnerships TuneIn is also available on key platforms such as Roku players and TVs, Xbox One, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TVs, Android TVs, Google Chromecast, and various wearables, including their newly redesigned Apple Watch experience. Lastly, TuneIn continues to forge relationships with companies throughout the auto industry on a wide range — from CarPlay and Android Auto, to dozens of both direct, and voice assistant-powered infotainment head unit integrations, to incorporation within in-vehicle devices like the Amazon Echo Auto, and to navigation app integrations like the newly formed partnership with Waze. With a mission of carrying the best live content, TuneIn partnered exclusively with an incredible roster of music festivals in 2018 including: Hangout Fest, Firefly Music Festival, Newport Folk Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, and SXSW to bring live festivals to mobile devices and the connected home. Furthering that effort, Love Box (in partner with Live Nation) was streamed as their first global festival driving the push into worldwide access. All of this live content was made available on dedicated 24/7 stations, expertly curated and human hosted by TuneIn's resident music programmers. TuneIn also launched a series of secret, pop-up concert events, bringing intimate exclusive performances by popular artists -- and powered by brands -- to markets around the US. Brand partnerships with MasterCard, Francis Ford Coppola Wines, Red Bull, Lexus, Toyota, Comcast, Verizon, US Bank, and Texas Lottery Commission were just a handful of partners activating against TuneIn's content opportunities. To find out what more than 75 million listeners already love about TuneIn, visit www.tunein.com. To become a TuneIn integration partner, visit https://tunein.com/get-tunein/ and to learn more about advertising with TuneIn, check out https://tunein.com/business/. About TuneIn
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