Audio Ink

Garth Brooks is parting ways with TuneIn after three years of running the SEVENS Radio Network together, a split brought on by TuneIn's recent sale to Stingray Group. Two of the network's stations are already gone, but Brooks says a new broadcast venture is coming.

NASCAR and SiriusXM have inked a multi-year broadcasting agreement renewal, keeping 24/7 NASCAR content on the platform. This includes live broadcasts of every race, daily NASCAR talk shows, and interviews with industry voices on SiriusXM’s NASCAR Radio channel.

Triton Digital announced Monday the integration of its programmatic audio advertising marketplace, a2x®, with the leading content-targeted video advertising network, DynAdmic.

In its battle for podcast supremacy, Spotify is adding a new data point to give deeper insight into episode performance. The company is rolling out "Plays," a publicly visible metric that shows how often a podcast episode has been actively listened to or viewed.

JR Motorsports owner Kelley Earnhardt Miller and veteran NASCAR reporter Danielle Trotta are teaming up to host a new weekly show on the SiriusXM NASCAR Radio channel. Beyond Racing will debut on Thursday, February 7, and air every Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET.

The streaming music service now allows users to send songs to their friends via Apple's iMessage. According to The Verge the person receiving the text message will have 30 seconds to preview the song and has the option to start a station based on that song. The new feature is now available to download from the iMessage App Store for all Pandora users.

SiriusXM is increasing its full-year 2020 guidance for SiriusXM self-pay subscriber net additions to approximately 700,000. This is an increase from the prior guidance of approximately 500,000, first issued on July 30, 2020.

AI-focused radio software company Futuri has announced the launch of another new technology utilizing artificial intelligence. The platform, SpotOn, uses AI to automate the commercial creative process to create copy, voice a spot, and add music in one program.

Streaming service Deezer has secured $109 million in funding. The financing will be used to increase customer acquisition efforts around the world, accelerate the introduction of new products, features, and growth initiatives to serve the company’s mission to create a more valuable product offering and build more programmed experiences for music fans. Deezer says it has also expanded its catalogue to over 40 million songs.

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