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/

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.

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.

Just read that in the Times tonight dc , very interesting , i must pay more attention to these threads :)

Directorate Change

RNS


RNS Number : 0645U

Audioboom Group PLC

13 October 2014








Audioboom Group plc

("Audioboom" or the "Company")



Board changes and update on September performance



Audioboom Group plc (AIM: BOOM), the digital social media audio platform, announces the appointment of Malcolm Wall as Non-executive Chairman and Jason Mackay as Non-executive Director to the board of Audioboom with immediate effect.



Malcolm Wall has worked across the media spectrum in the UK and overseas. He has been CEO, Content at Virgin Media, CEO of Abu Dhabi Media, COO of UBM plc and held a number of senior roles within ITV companies. He is currently working with Pinewood Studios to develop their Chinese interests. He is an advisor to the Abu Dhabi Media Zone Authority, a Non Executive Director of the international film fund, Image Nation, Chairman of Dock 10(the Media City production facility) and Non Executive Director of Eagle Eye Solutions Group plc, a leading digital consumer engagement provider.



Jason Mackay has extensive experience in the financial markets having worked for 11 years at UBS and Morgan Stanley most recently as a Managing Director in Morgan Stanley's equity business. Jason was also co-head of hedge fund GLG's UK equity business for 7 years, responsible for managing $3bn of assets. Over the last 4 years Jason has founded several property businesses and invested in and helped numerous small companies. Jason will have a particular focus on the marketing of Audioboom.



As a result of these appointments, Roger Maddock will step down as Chairman, but will stay on the board with responsibility for Jersey matters. Rodger Sargent will leave the board, having helped complete the recent fund raise. Given the speed of progress and growth of international operations, the board is actively engaged in searching for a finance director and expect to announce an appointment in due course.



September performance



September 2014 saw over 170,000 new registered users, a 30% increase on the August figure. In the 10 days to the end of September since the launch on 22nd September, there have been over 275,000 downloads of the new app, on minimal marketing, a figure considerably ahead of management expectation. Amongst many other statistics, 'follows', that is, users making a content provider a 'favourite' whose content they automatically follow, have increased over 125% since the app launch, an indication of significantly increased engagement and 'stickiness' that bodes very well for the future.



Rob Proctor, CEO of Audioboom, commented, "I am delighted to welcome Malcolm Wall and Jason Mackay to the board- it is a reflection of Audioboom's progress that we are able to attract two such high calibre people. Malcolm's experience in global media, digital and technology and Jason's considerable success and expertise in the capital markets will be crucial as we take Audioboom to the next level.



The statistics released today show the progress Audioboom has made In a short period of time; I am particularly encouraged by these early indications of uptake for the new app. However, they also reveal there is a huge untapped global market out there for us to aim at and I look forward to making further updates on our progress in the near future."

From the Sunday Times - 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.



Clearly still under valued.

Behind the Scenes of Our New App Video

By Harriet on Oct 29, 2014 in Behind-The-Scenes



http://blog.audioboom.com/

For what it's worth dc, I noticed that Robbie Burns aka Naked Trader bought in on 28/10 with a target price of 17p and stop at 11p. Just for info, it was posted on his website.

Cheers doodle, have not ignored you , only just got in.

What was Robbie's buy price ?

12.10p alwickk - according to his website. He also bought two tranches in August @8.45p, one of which he has since sold.

ok, cheers

So his stop was 9% @ 12.10 , is that a bit wide

Our system’s recommendation today is to BUY. The BULLISH HARAMI CROSS pattern finally received a confirmation because the prices crossed above the confirmation level which was at 13.1250, and our valid average buying price stands now at 13.1500. The previous SHORT signal was issued on 04/11/2014, 8 days ago, when the stock price was 13.5750. Since then BOOM.L has fallen by -3.13%.

Market Outlook

The bulls have strong evidence on their side and this evidence prompts us to make a bullish bet. The bullish pattern that was previously identified is finally confirmed and a BUY signal is generated. It is probably the right time to be part of this boost and bullish market sentiment. The market is telling you about a possible new profit. Do not miss this chance.



http://www.britishbulls.com/SignalPage.aspx?lang=en&Ticker=BOOM.L

New Content Partners

RNS


RNS Number : 0090X

Audioboom Group PLC

14 November 2014








Audioboom Group plc

("Audioboom")



New Content Partners



Audioboom (AIM: BOOM), the digital social media platform, announces a number of new content partners within the music, sports, business and publishing sectors.



● Beggars Group New York and London, the biggest independent record label in the world

● Barclays Bank A new partnership helping Barclays make more audio content and increase accessibility for all customers including the visually impaired

● IMG Including coverage of Ryder Cup golf and UEFA Champions League Football

● Vauxhall Football Shows on the Euro qualifiers from the sponsors of home nations football

● TIME Magazine The Brief: 12 things you need to know from the editors of TIME Updated daily

● World Economic ForumA channel containing global forums and summit coverage

● Big D and Bubba Americas most popular syndicated country music radio show with big social media followers, including exclusive interviews with Country Music Awards winners posted directly

● United Christian (Global) Broadcasters The world's biggest religious broadcast network with affiliates in 25 countries, including the world's first live Christian mobile TV channel



We continue to attract major sporting organisations to the platform including the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, who are using Audioboom to connect with their growing UK fan base, including allowing fans to record good luck messages to the team before last Sunday's game at Wembley.



Additionally signed this month: Premiership team Stoke City, leading Championship sidesCharlton and Wolves, Lords Cricket Ground, London Scottish, Harlequins and 15 other teams and sports organisations.

In addition, Audioboom's base in Australia continues to grow. Now on the platform are:



● The Football Federation of Australia.

● A number of A League soccer teams including Perth Glory.

● Flemington, home of The Melbourne Cup

● The Fairfax Media Group - Australia's leading diversified media company are fully integrated onto the platform, including news and sports interviews from their six radio stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.



Rob Proctor, CEO of Audioboom, commented, "This is just a sample of the premium content Audioboom has attracted onto the platform in recent weeks. We continue to actively build content partnerships that enhance the Audioboom listening experience and grow audience reach for content providers. The international spread, in particular into America, bodes very well for future strategic developments."

Major media sales partnerships in UK and US

RNS


RNS Number : 6640Z

Audioboom Group PLC

12 December 2014






12 December 2014



Audioboom Group plc

("Audioboom")



Major media sales partnerships in UK and US



Audioboom (AIM: BOOM), the digital social media platform, announces that it has signed two major media sales partnerships with Global Radio (UK) and AdLarge Media (US), a major step towards the Company's goal of developing significant advertising revenues.



In the UK, Audioboom has entered into an exclusive media sales partnership with Global Radio, with its inventory being featured on the new DAX (Digital Advertising Exchange) platform, which allows media buyers a single purchasing point for Audio on Demand advertising. Global Radio will be directly representing Audioboom inventory across news, current affairs, politics and business, to all of the major media planning and buying agencies in the UK.



In the USA, Audioboom has signed a non-exclusive partner agreement with AdLarge Media, the fastest growing independent audio advertising sales company in America. AdLarge Media aims to connect national advertisers with consumers on nationally distributed Audio on Demand inventory via digital and mobile platforms.



The agreement with AdLarge Media will see them directly representing all of Audioboom's inventory across all content genres. Indeed the first campaign has already been booked for US auto insurance company Geico at $36,000, after only one day of the companies working together.



Rob Proctor, CEO of Audioboom, commented, "I am really excited by our latest media sales partnerships. To be working with two of the highest profile and most prolific media sales companies in the world, really demonstrates that Audioboom is on the way to achieving its goals of becoming a major global media company and delivering significant revenues."



Cathy Csukas, Co-Founder & President of AdLarge Media, commented, "With the immense growth of on-demand spoken word content, we are thrilled to announce our new partnership with Audioboom. The targeting capabilities and reach that Audioboom offers gives our brand investors a unique opportunity to connect branded messaging with their core demographics."



Stuart Mays, Director of Commercial Strategy, DAX & Global Radio, commented, "I'm very pleased to count Audioboom as one of the earlier partners into DAX, the UK's biggest Digital Audio Exchange. DAX aims to bring together remarkable products and services in the digital audio space and provide advertisers and media agencies a simple access point to this burgeoning sector. The equivalent US market generates revenues of approximately $1.5bn and significant growth is predicted. The UK market is starting to grow rapidly with interest across most advertising categories and strong brands like Audioboom, with great content and growing audience numbers, will lead this sectors' growth."

Agreement with Audible

RNS


RNS Number : 7063Z

Audioboom Group PLC

15 December 2014






15 December 2014



Audioboom Group plc

("Audioboom")



Agreement with Audible



Audioboom (AIM: BOOM), the digital social media platform, has agreed a content deal with Audible Limited ("Audible"). Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc, is the world's largest audio entertainment company, with over 1,500,000 hours of content, including digital audiobooks, radio and TV programmes, and audio versions of magazines and newspapers.



Audioboom's new apps have an algorithm that learns a user's likes and tailors content delivery accordingly, allowing the creation of favourites, follows and playlists. This allows the showcasing of Audible content as part of the automated 'feed' of audio delivered on a genre-by-genre, region-by-region basis. Initially Audioboom will carry the latest releases and bestselling titles from Audible each month and will subsequently list all the relevant titles within the Audible portfolio.



Once the user has listened to a free sample of an audiobook, they can click directly through to Audible and register for a free trial and receive their free title as a reward. In addition, Audioboom has created a dedicated audiobook category within its apps and website, allowing users to browse bestsellers from different content genres, play samples and click straight through to Audible to register for an account.



Audible has a well-established affiliate programme that fits ideally into Audioboom's architecture. Audioboom will receive an upfront payment for every user that registers to Audible through Audioboom and an on-going percentage of retail sales from that subscriber on an ongoing basis via the Audible affiliate programme. The better Audioboom's recommendation engine works and the faster its user base grows, then the more revenue will be generated.



Rob Proctor, CEO of Audioboom, commented, "Audible is by some way the world leader in audiobooks and we are delighted to have signed this agreement with them. It shows the potential of the Audioboom platform to promote exceptional content and our ability to monetise our rapidly growing user base.



"We continue to work on a number of other agreements with global companies in order to generate significant new user numbers but also accelerate the platform's revenue generating capabilities. Whilst I am delighted with the progress we are making on our key revenue source - the roll out of our aggregated audio advertising network - it is particularly pleasing that this separate, non-advertising based revenue stream is now coming through."

yum yum - BOOM indeed:




New content partners
RNS
RNS Number : 9645Z
Audioboom Group PLC
17 December 2014




RNS Reach

17 December 2014

Audioboom Group plc

("Audioboom" or the "Company")



New content partners



Audioboom (AIM: BOOM), the digital social media platform, announces a number of new content partners:



· Sky News Radio (UK): The biggest news supplier to UK commercial radio, Sky News Radio is uploading daily news and analysis podcasts

· Astro Radio - Malaysia's largest radio group

· KSL NewsRadio (USA): One of the biggest regional news services in the US, KSL is the number one station in Utah. KSL is uploading news reports and daily shows to nine content channels

· Global Radio Group - LBC, Heart and XFM uploading content to audioBoom

· Magic FM - Magic FM is now uploading the best clips and highlights of their shows to audioBoom

· Ladbrokes: Ladbrokes is a world leader in the betting and gaming industry with over 2,700 betting outlets in the UK, Ireland, Belgium and Spain and over 800,000 active online customers. They are uploading previews of key football games

· WASPS Rugby Club: English Premiership rugby club will upload post-match interviews and previews of their forthcoming debut season in Coventry

· Oxford University: The oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford University is now using audioBoom to post their audio content

· Pakistan Cricket Board: The national cricket of team of Pakistan are uploading post-match interviews from tests and one-day internationals



Additionally signed in the UK:

Gathering Heritage, Pirate Party, Buddhist Voices, Igniting Souls, Wickham Festival, Wrexham FC, Preston North End Ladies FC, HouseKeeping DJs, SpellBinding Media



Additionally signed in Rest of World:

Watan FM (Syria), Blackcaps (New Zealand cricket team), Brisbane Strikers FC (Australia), Hockey Australia, Hockey New Zealand, Michael Chopra (soccer, India)



Furthermore, two existing content partners have increased the breadth of the content published to audioBoom:



· Sky Sports News: Sky Sports have enhanced the amount of audio content they are placing through audioBoom, increasing audio interviews and analysis in football and now other sports such as rugby, cricket and darts

· Big D & Bubba - Following a successful campaign with exclusive interviews with Country Music Award winners, Big D & Bubba now have new Channels for their podcasts and interviews which will be embedded in their affiliate station websites



Rob Proctor, CEO of Audioboom, commented, "We continue to attract premium and household names to audioBoom through our active building of content partnerships. Our wide range of content partners within both our key verticals and more niche listening areas, continue to provide audioBoom app users with the best audio content in the world, and we continue to provide our content partners with the best technology."

Year-end 2014 trading update

RNS


RNS Number : 9641Z

Audioboom Group PLC

17 December 2014






17 December 2014



Audioboom Group plc

("Audioboom" or the "Company")



Year-end 2014 trading update



Audioboom (AIM: BOOM), the digital social media platform, provides a trading update for the year ended 30 November 2014, a year of growth in registered users and content partners, and the establishment of a platform for accelerated future growth.



Highlights



· Trading continues in line with market expectations - the successful fundraising in October will allow for certain expenditure for growth to be accelerated into 2015



· Year-end cash balance of c. £8.9 million



· Over 2,000 content partners, an increase of 675% over 12 months (Nov 2013: 297), with major content partners such as Sky News Radio, Global Radio Group, Magic FM and Ladbrokes recently added - see separate RNS Reach announcement for more information



· 3.14 million registered users, up 64% on same time last year (Nov 2013: 1.92 million)



· The Company expects to release its audited results for the year ended 30 November 2014 on 23 February 2015



Directorate change



Brian Southward, a non-executive director of the Company, has today resigned from the Board following a successful transition to the new non-executive directors appointed at the time of the October fundraising. The Board would like to thank Brian for his good counsel since the acquisition of Audioboom, re-admission to AIM and during the subsequent fundraising and for all his assistance during this transitional period.



Issue of shares



As announced at the time of his appointment to the Board on 13 October 2014, the first year of remuneration for Malcolm Wall, the Chairman of the Company, of £35,000 is to be settled by way of an issue of shares on a basis consistent with that of the other non-executives appointed at the time of the re-admission of the Company to AIM and subsequently, except that the shares are to be issued at 12.5 pence per share, the price of the October placing. In this respect the Company has today issued 280,000 new ordinary shares to Mr Wall, who will as a result hold 480,000 ordinary shares in the Company. Following the issue of the shares and their admission to AIM, the total number of ordinary shares in the Company in issue will be 533,014,557. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, their shareholding in Audioboom.

A big fall today.

Recent share price movement

RNS


RNS Number : 1166A

Audioboom Group PLC

18 December 2014






18 December 2014

Audioboom Group plc

("Audioboom" of the "Company")



Recent share price movement



Audioboom (AIM: BOOM), the digital social media platform, announces that the Company knows of no trading or operational reason to warrant the material change in the share price yesterday.



The Company provided a positive trading update to the market on 17 December following on from recent announcements regarding the monetisation of the aggregated audio ad network, further new content wins and a deal with Audible.



The Company continues to pursue its stated strategy for growth.



Rob Proctor, CEO of Audioboom, commented, "I was disappointed to see the fall in Audioboom's share price yesterday; recent announcements have shown the progress we continue to make as we turn Audioboom into a global media company.



"Following the successful launch of our iOS app which saw over 500,000 installs in just three weeks, the Company is greatly looking forward to rolling out its latest iOS app in January 2015 and our all new Android app in February, supported by an extensive online, offline, on air and outdoor marketing campaign throughout Q1."