Audio streaming service TuneIn is teaming up with Discord to deliver free dwell radio to the platform. That is TuneIn’s first collaboration with a social platform and one that’s doubtless to assist it attain a bigger viewers. Discord has an unlimited consumer base of 200 million, whereas TuneIn at present touts 75 million month-to-month lively customers.
The brand new integration, “TuneIn Radio & Podcasts,” consists of TuneIn’s full library of 100,000 audiobooks, native AM/FM radio stations, information, podcasts, and sports activities content material. The service additionally curated music collections particularly for Discord, together with stations devoted to genres equivalent to Okay-pop, Lofi, and Indie.
“The experience is highly curated for Discord,” Wealthy Stern, Tunein CEO, advised TechCrunch. He added that that is the primary time an audio-only leisure possibility has been obtainable in Discord’s Exercise app listing.
In 2022, Discord launched Actions, a characteristic in voice channels the place customers can expertise shared video games and leisure with buddies, together with YouTube’s “Watch Together” and actions like “Know What I Meme.” There are at the moment 23 Actions obtainable.
Discord customers can entry the brand new TuneIn Exercise on desktop, cell gadgets, and the net by clicking on the rocket icon within the voice channel. Customers can then discover numerous listening experiences, having music within the background as they examine or listening to a podcast as they hang around with buddies.
Stern mentioned the corporate is “open to pursuing” extra partnerships with different communication platforms.
“Our mission is to bring radio everywhere our listeners are, and that includes more partnerships with smart home devices, social platforms, and automotive manufacturers to power the in-vehicle entertainment experience,” he advised us.
Lately, TuneIn has partnered with a number of firms, equivalent to Amazon Alexa-enabled gadgets, Fisker, Lucid, Rivian’s R1T electrical vehicles, Skullcandy, and extra.
