LOS ANGELES – October 4, 2016 —Triton Digital, a leading technology provider for the audio industry, today announced its representation of XAPPmedia’s premium interactive audio ads on Slacker Radio, a leading Internet radio service. This is in addition to Slacker’s own audio inventory and programming, which Triton Digital has been representing since 2010.
Podcasting is an audio media. Amazon Alexa and its Echo devices use voice for interaction, but are designed to consume audio media. By our count, there are fewer than 10 podcasters on Alexa as of September 2016 and half of those are either AOL or NPR affiliated properties.
Liberty Mutual released a skill for Amazon Alexa last week for its Safeco brand called Insurance Advisor. It also announced the flagship Liberty Mutual brand would have its own skill soon.
Brands should build Alexa skills to establish a presence on the voice web, but that is just the first step. Marketers need to add voice personas to their skills to truly deliver an on-brand voice experience. Examples included.
Two weeks ago Amazon announced a new Audio Player feature that allows unlimited audio playback or text-to-speech by Alexa. This is great news. Previously, it was limited to 90 seconds which practically eliminated the opportunity for podcasters and music streaming services to reach an audience of 10 million Echo users.
The Huffington Post featured an article by XAPPmedia CMO Bret Kinsella today on how brands need to start building a voice presence and sound palette to take advantage of the rapidly expanding voice web.
Mary Meeker of KPCB devoted more than 10% of her widely followed Internet Trends 2016 report to voice computing interfaces. In the 2015 report, voice assistants didn’t merit a single mention. What changed?
Amazon’s Alexa is ushering in a new era of voice interaction between brands and consumers. However, there is a big difference between the visual experiences of the web and mobile apps and those driven by audio and voice. XAPP has deep expertise and tools designed specifically for creating great voice experiences and are helping brands and organizations design and implement Alexa Skills. We are also building rapid custom Alexa demos and prototypes so people can hear what their brand sounds like on the new voice-first platforms.
Audio.ad will offer XAPP Ads® that enable mobile consumers of music streaming services and other audio apps to interact with advertising simply by speaking. Audio.ad will be XAPPmedia’s exclusive representative in Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market.
Washington Business Journal recently named XAPP “Startup of the Week” in its TechFlash section. Staff Reporter Andy Medici interviewed XAPPmedia CEO Pat Higbie about the company and its plans for the future.