Liquid Air Lab and Treedia Labs Announce Partnership to deliver podcasts to
mobile phones worldwide thru 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," said 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."
Mikko Linnamaki, CEO and founder of Liquid Air Lab: "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. 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 Linnamaki (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.
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(TM) powers a variety of company-owned web destinations
including Podcast.com. Visit us at http://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
http://podcast.com.
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