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Deezer Acquires Stitcher, the Leading Talk & Entertainment Radio App
Deezer to combine communicate and leisure into streaming revel in, leveraging Stitcher¹s 35,000+ presentations and outstanding car presence
OCTOBER 24, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO Deezer, the superior international virtual song streaming carrier, nowadays introduced it's obtaining Stitcher, the best supplier of personalised Internet communicate radio and award profitable cellular merchandise.
The acquisition lets in Deezer to turn out to be a actually international on-call for audio supplier, providing shoppers over 35 million song tracks and 35,000 radio presentations and podcasts. Stitcher lately contains 8 out of the highest ten terrestrial radio presentations and lines content from over 12,000 content suppliers, together with NPR, BBC, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, This American Life, Marc Maron, CBS Radio News and others.
Streaming communicate content keeps to develop in the United States, with roughly 39 million Americans having listened to an audio podcast prior to now month and 30 % of Americans having listened to a podcast in accordance to Edison Research.
“Almost each and every track listener listens to a few type of communicate radio, if it is information, leisure or sports activities,” stated Daniel Marhely, Founder of Deezer. “We see the power to ship higher communicate streaming answers in the similar approach that we're doing in song to tremendous serve the wishes of our international target audience of sixteen million customers and rising. The acquisition of Stitcher is helping us understand this chance.”
Deezer will additional increase its distribution into the car leisure marketplace the place Stitcher is already enabled in additional than 50 fashions, together with BMW, Ford, General Motors, Jaguar and Mazda automobiles and used to be an Apple CarPlay and Android Auto release spouse. “Deezer has grow to be a marketplace chief through assembly the other and unmet wishes of song shoppers around the globe,” stated Noah Shanok, Chief Executive Officer of Stitcher. “We glance ahead to proceed to evolve our top services and ship probably the most whole and very best virtual audio revel in for listeners far and wide.” Deezer will proceed to make stronger Stitcher’s award profitable cellular merchandise, the place Stitcher has the number 1 rated podcast app on Android and the second one most well liked app on iOS at the back of iTunes.
About Deezer
Deezer is the primary in point of fact around the globe virtual track streaming carrier in over one hundred eighty nations, with sixteen million per month lively customers and 5 million paid subscribers all over the world. Deezer is at the leading edge of a song revolution, permitting enthusiasts wireless get right of entry to to the most important song catalogue on the earth, with greater than 35 million songs and 30,000+ radio channels on any tool. Combining the most productive of guy and system, Deezer¹s international editorial workforce searches for the most productive track around the globe and its algorithmic suggestions lend a hand lovers uncover song they are going to actually love.
Deezer is to be had in your favourite tool, together with phone, tablet, PC, pc, house sound gadget, hooked up automotive, sensible TV or Xbox. Launched in 2007, Deezer is a privately-held corporate, founded in Paris with workplaces in San Francisco and all over the world. Deezer is lately to be had as a loose obtain for iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows units or on the internet at deezer.com globally out of doors america.