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Audioboom Group (BOOM)     

dreamcatcher - 26 Jun 2014 19:02




Audioboom works with some of the biggest names in sports and media, such as: NFL clubs, the English Premier League, AFL (Aussie Rules) and major broadcasters such as
Southern Cross Austereo, YEA Networks & the BBC.

The Audioboom platform allows our partners to bring their content to millions of fans worldwide via embeddable players, mobile applications, Facebook & Twitter integration.

Audioboom also allows the monetisation of audio via the dynamic insertion of pre- and post- roll advertising even in to Twitter and Facebook.



http://audioboomplc.com/

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dreamcatcher - 03 Sep 2014 21:52 - 12 of 70

Thinking of investing in Audioboom? Take a look at 7Digital instead…

Audioboom, whose ticker symbol (BOOM) raises some rather ambivalent emotions, has certainly got off to a cracking start after it reversed into One Delta Plc in April. One of those proverbial “next big things”, Audioboom shares have already quadrupled in the space of a few months. So what is all the fuss about?

Audioboom

Essentially, Audioboom seems to be attempting to do for audio what YouTube did for video.

The firm provides both broadcasters and content creators with a very simple and effective way of distributing audio clips via social media. Using both a web browser interface and a mobile app on iPhone and Android, users can browse content uploaded by others or create content themselves. Each audio upload can then be easily or even automatically attached to a tweet or sent to Facebook friends.

On the Audioboom app itself, broadcasters and content creators have ‘channels’ on which their uploads are collected. It is now used widely by most of the UK radio sector, adopted by the BBC as an official technology partner and is beginning to move into the broadcast market in the US.





http://www.spreadbetmagazine.com/blog/thinking-of-investing-in-audioboom-take-a-look-at-7digital-i.html

dreamcatcher - 18 Sep 2014 16:53 - 13 of 70

7DIG climbing well today, as well as BOOM.

dreamcatcher - 18 Sep 2014 18:44 - 14 of 70

Audioboo to become Audioboom in app revamp



Headphones




Gallery

By Barry Collins

Posted on 18 Sep 2014 at 10:16



http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/390856/audioboo-to-become-audioboom-in-app-revamp

dreamcatcher - 19 Sep 2014 16:02 - 15 of 70

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dreamcatcher - 27 Sep 2014 19:45 - 16 of 70


Launch of new iOS app and rebranding of platform

RNS


RNS Number : 3151S

Audioboom Group PLC

23 September 2014








Audioboom Group plc

("Audioboom" or the "Company")



Launch of new iOS app and rebranding of platform



Audioboom (AIM: BOOM), the audio sharing social media platform, announces that it has launched its free iOS AudioBoom app and has relaunched its audio content sharing platform, AudioBoo, under the new brand of AudioBoom.



AudioBoom is a social media audio platform that allows content producers to create and broadcast audio content and syndicate it across the global social media platforms. Content partners include the BBC, the Telegraph, the Guardian, Sky Sports, Southern Cross Austereo, the Premier League, ZeeTV and Universal Music Group.



The new Apple-based app - which works on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch features:



· A completely redesigned user interface.

· Swipe-based navigation which remembers what a listener likes based on how fast they swipe.

· A custom-built recommendations engine to learn what the listener loves.

· The 'Daily Download' - automatically stores 2 hours of favourite audio for offline listening on the cummute

· On the spot sharing buttons - making sharing audio immediate to other platforms like Twitter and Facebook

· An updated record, trim and upload function to let you quickly create your own clips to share with the world.



Audioboom expects to launch an Android version of the app in the next few weeks.



At the same time, the Company's audio sharing platform has been relaunched under the new brand AudioBoom (previously AudioBoo) - for more details visit the relaunched website: www.audioboom.com



AudioBoom now has over 3 million registered users and has seen a huge increase in traffic over the past few months, recording 260m page impressions in August an increase of over 280% on the previous month. In September AudioBoom experienced its biggest day to date with 1,744,113 listens in just 24 hours and 2,051,220 unique users logging on to listen to content from the likes of Sky Sports News and talkSPORT covering football's transfer deadline day.



Rob Proctor, CEO of Audioboom, commented: "The launch of the new app marks the next stage in AudioBoom's ever increasing growth. We are all really looking forward to giving users access to the best content in the world. We are, quite literally, reinventing audio for the digital age giving our users the chance to find, listen and curate the audio they want, when they want it."



dreamcatcher - 30 Sep 2014 18:55 - 17 of 70

A lot of talk about Amazon news due on the boards.

mitzy - 30 Sep 2014 19:39 - 18 of 70

Think this ones going to 100p in the next few years.

dreamcatcher - 30 Sep 2014 20:13 - 19 of 70

Lol, mitzy.

mitzy - 01 Oct 2014 08:12 - 20 of 70

I'm in dreamcatcher from this morning.

mitzy - 01 Oct 2014 13:38 - 21 of 70

And sold out.

dreamcatcher - 01 Oct 2014 15:33 - 22 of 70

Directors' Dealings

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4896381

dreamcatcher - 01 Oct 2014 15:34 - 23 of 70


Audioboom raises £8m

StockMarketWire.com

Audioboom Group, the digital social media audio platform, has raised £8m from new and existing institutional and other shareholders through the issue of 64 million new ordinary shares at 12.5p apiece.

The proceeds will be used to fund the growth of the business.

The company has also agreed to release 7digital from the lock-in arrangements entered into at the time of the acquisition of Audioboo Limited in May.

7digtal has conditionally placed 29,029,307 existing ordinary shares through Arden Partners at 12.5p each. 7digital will retain 58 million ordinary shares, representing 10.9% of the enlarged issued share capital of the company.

Chief executive Rob Proctor said: "Since Audioboom was admitted to AIM in May 2014, we have been overwhelmed by the response and take up of the platform. Audioboom served over 260 million page impression in August 2014, making it one of the UK's largest digital media platforms. I anticipate that the new app and new content deals will quickly drive this figure significantly higher.

"I am delighted that the Placing was heavily oversubscribed and to have received the backing of both existing and new institutional and private investors. Our substantial balance sheet will now allow the accelerated global growth of our platform, major expansion of our aggregated audio advertising network and the roll-out of the new Audioboom app, which I believe will revolutionise the digital consumption of audio."

At 1:43pm: (LON:BOOM) Audioboom Group share price was -1.75p at 14.88p

mitzy - 01 Oct 2014 15:48 - 24 of 70

And back in again.

dreamcatcher - 01 Oct 2014 15:58 - 25 of 70

You have 35 mins to get out again mitzy. lol

mitzy - 01 Oct 2014 16:01 - 26 of 70

I sticking for now dreamcatcher.

dreamcatcher - 01 Oct 2014 16:06 - 27 of 70

That's fine then. :-))

skyhigh - 02 Oct 2014 21:22 - 28 of 70

I'm in too!

mitzy - 02 Oct 2014 21:59 - 29 of 70

Good luck I bought me some more today.

dreamcatcher - 08 Oct 2014 20:32 - 30 of 70

Naked trader -

Audioboom (LON:BOOM) is a very interesting one, it came up at a follow up seminar I did just before heading off for holidays and I did like the look of it (thanks to whoever at the seminar brought this one up). It's the country's only integrated audio and graphic display sports ad network.

dreamcatcher - 12 Oct 2014 19:56 - 31 of 70

From Lse -

Sunday Times -

We need a word about Audioboom — not just because the shares are up 800%

It’s radio’s turn to feel the heat from digital media with this YouTube for the spoken word

Matthew Goodman Published: 12 October 2014

For football fans, transfer deadline day is excruciating. Every rumour about which star is going where is dissected and discussed while the clock ticks down. It has become a media frenzy.

This scramble to get the latest gossip has proved a boon to the likes of Sky Sports on television and Talksport on radio. It has also worked its magic on Audioboom, a network best described as YouTube for audio.

The London business, launched five years ago, recorded its busiest ever day last month when the transfer window closed, with more than 2m users logging in to listen to clips on player moves. “Football deadline day was off the clock, the busiest we have ever seen,” said Rob Proctor, chief executive.

Football supporters are not the only people getting excited about Audioboom. City investors are tuning in in ever greater numbers, too. The business’s shares have soared some 800% in the five months since it joined the stock market through a reverse takeover of One Delta, an AIM-listed shell company. Having debuted at 1.5p, the shares closed on Friday at 13.9p.

This month the company raised £8m in a share placing that saw a number of high-profile names buy into the business. The new backers included blue-chip institutions such as BlackRock and Legal & General, the small company specialist Octopus, and celebrities such as the Australian soap star Holly Valance, wife of the millionaire property developer Nick Candy.

The deal also allowed 7 Digital, an AIM-listed music service whose UBC operation was a founding investor in Audioboom, to sell down its stake. Having pumped £1.8m into the business, it took £3.6m off the table from selling shares and still retains 11% of the company, so it stands to benefit from further growth. Directors — including Proctor and Rodger Sargent, who helped to raise money for One Delta with serial sports and media investor Chris Akers — also contributed to the fundraising.

Despite the enormous rise in its share price, some market watchers believe Audioboom remains conservatively valued compared with far bigger, more established social media businesses such as Twitter and Facebook. Its market value is a little over £73m — about £25 for each of its almost 3m registered users — which is about half or one-third of the equivalent measure for Twitter or Snapchat.

“The value per subscriber is not excessive by any means,” said Peter McNally, technology analyst at stockbroker Charles Stanley. “It is still early days for Audioboom. It has a long way to go, but it has shaken up how audio content should be delivered.”

The reason Audioboom has attracted so much excitement among investors is the potential of its business model. “It is well positioned for growth,” wrote analysts at Arden Partners, the stockbroker that handled the fundraising, in a note this month.

When it was launched five years ago, under the leadership of Mark Rock and with backing from UBC and Channel 4, which retains a 0.5% stake, Audioboo (as the site was then known) allowed users to post audio clips they had created.

It was the aural equivalent of YouTube and it attracted celebrity fans such as Stephen Fry and Robert Llewellyn, star of the TV sitcom Red Dwarf. The only proviso, one that remains today, was that all the material had to be spoken word. There is no music, so Audioboom never pays royalties to labels or performers, a cost services such as Spotify and Pandora have had to bear.

However, like many dotcom businesses, it had not yet worked out how to make money from its loyal audience.

“Many businesses go through two or more generations,” said Simon Cole, the chief executive of 7 Digital and a non-executive director of Audioboom. “Look at Google, YouTube, Shazam. They set out as one thing and went through a handbrake turn. They realised they needed to be different businesses to be successful.”

Last year the founding shareholders appointed internet veteran Proctor as chief executive to point the business in a new direction. “We took some of the core [software] code but basically ripped up what was there and reinvented it,” he said.

The big idea was to switch from having amateur users upload material to signing up professional organisations that would make content available through the site.

Today, Audioboom has about 1,400 commercial partners, including the BBC, Sky Sports, Talksport and The Spectator magazine, providing clips.

The next stage in the development of the business was to launch a mobile phone app that allows users to create their own “programmes” by downloading the content they are interested in. The latest version of the service has just been launched on the iPhone and is due to go live on Android devices imminently.

The app allows users to choose the type of content they wish to receive and can be configured so that material can be downloaded automatically to a mobile phone. Someone who wants, say, a daily financial news bulletin can receive exactly that every morning on their device so they can listen to it on the way to work, for example.

Proctor hopes Audioboom will eventually replace radio broadcasts as the means by which listeners receive information. He argues that many listeners have to put up with repeated news bulletins, traffic reports, weather forecasts and so on that they have no interest in. Audioboom’s system of “curated content” will change that, he hopes.

Proctor said: “Radio stations have hours and hours of airtime they have to fill. But in a mobile [phone] environment that doesn’t work. Users expect to be able to choose and curate their experience. Pushing them three hours of a drivetime show doesn’t work. Radio has done an amazingly good job of ring- fencing itself against the rise of digital [media] up to this point. That is now being broken.”

The development will not stop there. Proctor says the business will move into a third phase — syndicating content to a large network of websites that can then be used to sell advertising.

For example, Audioboom may have an interview with Louis van Gaal, the Manchester United manager, which it can supply to the top 100 most read websites dedicated to the football club. That, he argues, becomes a compelling proposition for advertising buyers. “We will give them options.”

The company also sees great potential to expand internationally. At the moment, about two-thirds of its listeners are in Britain and America, with a further 15% in Australia. But deals such as the recent tie-up with Zee TV, the Indian media giant, indicate the company has its sights set on moving farther afield.

South America is a big opportunity, as is the Spanish-speaking part of the American market.

Malcolm Wall, a veteran media figure who heads Pinewood Studios’ joint venture in China, is set to join the board as a non-executive director to help advise on the overseas growth.

Given the global appeal of the Premier League, the next transfer deadline day, in January, could be even more of a boon for Audioboom.
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