AudioBoom

AudioBoom PLC is an on-demand audio and podcasting distribution platform. AudioBoom offers business-to-business services to the radio, media and podcast industries.

AudioBoom
Type of site
On-Demand Audio & Podcasting Platform
Available inEnglish, Spanish
Traded asAIM: BOOM[1]
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom[2]
No. of locationsLondon, New York City, Melbourne & Mumbai
Area servedWorldwide
CEORobert Proctor
Key peopleDavid McDonagh, Jon Del Strother, Stuart Last, Ruth Fitzsimons
URLaudioboom.com
Alexa rank 23,048[3]
Launched2013 (2013)

AudioBoom's platform has been used to power on-demand audio for businesses including BBC, The Spectator[4] Associated Press, NBC Sports, Yahoo!, Cumulus Media and Westwood One.

The company is based in London with offices in New York, Melbourne and Mumbai. It became AIM-listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2014 as Audioboo Group Limited (AIM: BOOM).

History

The company was founded in 2009 as Audioboo Limited. The main shareholders were UBC Media Group and Slovar Limited[5]. In 2014 they sold their shares in a reverse takeover to the listed company One Delta plc., changing the name of the latter to Audioboom Group plc (AIM symbol BOOM)[6].

The AudioBoom mobile app was discontinued in May 2019.[7]

Features

AudioBoom provides hosting, publishing, distribution and monetization services for on-demand content. Key features include:

  • Unlimited audio hosting on branded content channels through a publisher dashboard
  • Automated distribution through partnerships with Apple Podcasts, CastBox, Deezer, Google Podcasts, iHeart, RadioPublic, Spotify, Stitcher and TuneIn.[8]
  • Embeddable media players
  • Advanced analytics and consumption data
  • Monetization through podcast sponsorships and a built-in ad network

Key users and partners
  • Russell Brand's podcast series, featuring Matt Morgan and resident poet Mr. Gee, launched exclusively on audioBoom in February 2015 and ended in May 2015.[9]
  • Cumulus Media publish on-demand content from over 450 of their radio stations.
  • Westwood One provide ad-sales services and distribute major syndicated radio shows through the platform.
  • Associated Press distribute hourly news updates to their partner websites using AudioBoom.
  • Zee TV post entertainment, news and general interest content across their Zee, DNAIndia and Ditto brands.
  • Kidd Kraddick In The Morning show joined in January 2013 and became the most popular channel on the platform.
  • The Guardian used the apps to liveblog news and gather reactions, including from the Gaza Strip and from the site of the Boston Marathon bombing.
  • Yahoo! Sports Radio host their Podcast Arena shows.
  • BBC Radio, including radios 2, 4 and 6, a number of local radio stations, and several World Service non-English language stations.[10]
  • The Premier League joined in late 2013, hosting its podcast[11] and promoting the use of audioBoom among Premier League clubs.
  • Stephen Fry[12] recorded a welcome message which was sent to all new users.

Alternatives
gollark: I vaguely remember reading about RTL-SDRs being used to reverse-engineer (partly) LoRa and some satellite phone encoding.
gollark: If they were using some bizarre exotic encoding but not actually encrypting it it would still be *possible*, if *very hard*, to decode it without the actual docs.
gollark: Presumably the encoding pagers use is well-known/documented enough that someone implemented a software decoder.
gollark: That's an example of it, I guess? You turn... what is it again... 3 bits into 7 bits and can convert it back even if it's scrambled a bit.
gollark: I feed `multimon-ng` audio data from the `rtl_fm` program (which demoduldates FM from the RTL-SDR) and it decodes the POCSAG-whatever protocol(s) and outputs the text again.

References
  1. "audioBoom Group PLC".
  2. "About audioBoom".
  3. "audioBoom web traffic statistics". Alexa. April 15, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  4. "Spectator Radio". audioboom.com. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  5. "UBC Media : Update on progress of investment in Audioboo and proposed acquisition of 7digital".
  6. "Acquisition, Name Change and Notice of AGM".
  7. "Audioboom To Discontinue Mobile App for Recording and Podcast Listening". Audioboom. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  8. "Distribution Overview". Audioboom. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  9. "The Final Episode". Audioboom. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  10. "BBC gives the word to AudioBoo". Financial Times.(subscription required)
  11. "audioBoom / Premier League".
  12. Stephen Fry's audioBoom page.
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