AudioHQ & TuneIn Announce Multi-Year Exclusive Audio Advertising & Sales Representation Partnership

NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- AudioHQ, the largest online audio sales representation firm in the United States, and TuneIn, the world's leading audio streaming service with the best in sports, music, news, podcasts and audiobooks, have announced a partnership whereby AudioHQ will be the exclusive re-seller, in the United States, of TuneIn's audio advertising inventory over a multi-year period. 

TuneIn serves more than 75 million monthly active users, across the globe, on hundreds of devices, including smartphones, desktop, connected devices, connected autos, game consoles and smart speakers, like Sonos, Bose SoundTouch, Amazon Echo and Google Home of which TuneIn is the only "out of the box" audio provider.

"Over the last several years, TuneIn has built an incredibly diverse and totally differentiated platform via partnerships with the best content brands in the audio world," said Matt Cutair, CEO at AudioHQ.  "We have always been focused on partnering with publishers that offer truly unique and scaled advertising opportunities for our brand partners and this new partnership with TuneIn represents another substantial increase in our marketplace footprint."

"TuneIn's audience is growing, and our inventory continues to scale.  We've been hyper-focused on content, and creative solutions for our brand partners including live-streaming music festivals, custom podcast series and an emphasis on exclusive.  Plus, we're now producing a variety of content with our league partners, as well as human-hosted curated radio which are focal points for our selling efforts," said Billy Hartman, VP and Head of Global Revenue and Partnerships at TuneIn.  "An exclusive partnership with Audio HQ opens up a world of opportunity with a trusted partner in the audio space.  With our audio inventory growing, TuneIn benefits from inclusion in Audio HQ's world-class network and their audio expertise. Meanwhile, our direct team can stay focused on content, and multi-channel digital partnerships."

About AudioHQ 
AudioHQ entered the rapidly expanding digital audio advertising marketplace in 2014.  The company is focused on developing a premium and exclusive advertising platform that connects advertisers with digital audio advertising inventory and integration opportunities across a targeted line-up of publisher partners.  AudioHQ is the exclusive audio ad sales representative for many successful streaming audio services including TuneIn, SoundCloud, MLB At Bat, talkSPORT & the English Premier League, Slacker Radio, Jango, Digitally Imported, 977 Music & Triton Digital. The company also has content creation and distribution partnerships with Paradigm Talent Agency, Laurence Fishburne's, Cinema Gypsy Productions, TateMen Entertainment & John Tesh's IFYL Group.

About TuneIn 
Bringing together a wide collection of sports, music, news, podcasts, and audiobooks — including live, on-demand and original content — TuneIn lets people find what they love while helping them discover new things. TuneIn has grown to become one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world with 75 million monthly active users. TuneIn has over 120,000 owned & operated and partner radio stations and more than 5.7 million on-demand programs stemming from every continent, and is available for free across 200 platforms and connected devices. TuneIn Premium subscribers can listen to the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, over 90,000 audiobooks and commercial-free music stations. With venture funding from Comcast Ventures, IVP, Sequoia Capital, Causeway, General Catalyst Partners, Icon Ventures, and Marker LLC, TuneIn is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SOURCE TuneIn