Liquid Air Lab to Bring Podcast.com Content to Mobile Devices
Liquid Air Lab and Treedia Labs announce partnership to deliver podcasts to mobile phones worldwide through spodtronic
STUTTGART, Germany and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquid Air Lab and Treedia Labs today announced their plans to deliver a full spectrum of podcast programming to mobile phone users around the world by integrating Treedia’s Podcast.com distribution services and Liquid Air Lab’s spodtronic mobile application.
Spodtronic is the first worldwide radio and podcast content hub, delivering the total radio experience to mobile broadband users. Spodtronic users can receive live radio programming and podcasts to their phones over-the-air. Podcast.com is the leading destination for podcast consumers to discover, share, and enjoy podcasts across a wide variety of devices and applications.
“We’re pleased to have spodtronic join the list of partners accessing news, entertainment and more programming through Podcast.com. Treedia technology will provide personalization and real-time transcoding to deliver content tailored to spodtronic, providing listeners with access to over 45,000 hours of content,” says Scott Beatty, CEO of Treedia Labs. “With best-of-breed partnerships such as this, digital content becomes available to consumers anywhere, anytime, and on any device that the consumer wishes to use.”
“Podcast.com is one of the largest names in podcasting and we are happy to distribute their thousands of podcasts to mobile users on our spodtronic player,” says Mikko Linnamäki, CEO and founder of Liquid Air Lab. “By adding the huge amount of high quality podcasts of Podcast.com to our total radio experience of radio, live concerts and sports content, we can now offer the mobile user an even more compelling service.”
About Liquid Air Lab: Liquid Air Lab GmbH was founded in May 2002 by Mikko Linnamäki (CEO) and Tero Katajainen (CTO). It has headquarters in Stuttgart and offices in Berlin, Berkeley, California and in Tampere, Finland. As of today Liquid Air Lab has over 40 employees. The company combines different business areas: its spodtronic mobile software represents the first worldwide radio and podcast content hub, while its spodtronic live! platform provides users with exclusive live concerts from BBC Radio International, thus enabling the “Total Radio Experience.” The company is privately held and is backed by Benchmark Capital and Baytech Venture Capital. Visit www.liquidairlab.com for more information and send press inquiries to Mikko Linnamäki via press [at] liquidairlab.com.
About Treedia Labs: Treedia Labs is the leading developer of media aggregation and distribution platforms that provide feed management and distribution to any Internet connected device. The company's core product, the Treedia Feed Management Platform™ powers a variety of company-owned Web destinations including Podcast.com. Visit us at www.treedia.com.
About Podcast.com: Podcast.com the premier podcast destination that provides access to a growing list of over 17,000 curated and constantly updated podcast feeds representing more than 45,000 hours of audio and video content. Podcast.com’s unique value proposition to content consumers also presents an unsurpassed way for content providers to reach an audience that consumes podcasts via the Web, multimedia devices and Internet radio. Visit us at www.podcast.com and send press inquiries to Glenn Gaudet via press [at] podcast.com.