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Australia – Australian leading media company Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) is tapping the powers of AI in order to boost the user experience of its digital audio app ‘LiSTNR’. It will be adopting SourseAI, an AI and machine learning platform, to particularly provide content recommendations on LiSTNR. 

SCA has been reaching Aussie viewers with its broad line of radio, television, and digital assets. LiSTNR, in particular, is its free audio destination for consumers housing radio, podcasts, music, and news. 

SourseAI has combined applied AI, management consulting, and SaaS into its decision augmentation platform. Through this, SCA will be assisted in discovering audience behavioral insights, listener mood states, and how to power dynamic cohorts of LiSTNR users, ultimately enabling a hyper-personalized experience across the app.

SCA’s in-house analytical capability will be enhanced by SourseAI, which ingests data from SCA’s systems and applies a machine learning algorithm designed to power content recommendations to users. SCA will also leverage other SourseAI capabilities, such as forecasting and anomaly detection, to understand growth across content genres, predict seasonal content scheduling peaks and troughs, and explore changing content tastes.

SCA’s Head of Digital and Innovation Chris Johnson, said, “The AI and Machine Learning space is scaling rapidly, and we believe that investing in the Australian entrepreneurial ecosystem to support our digital audio ambitions is the best strategy. SourseAI is the right partner to deliver on our vision and our investment will provide significant long-term value to both parties.”

Meanwhile, Matt Jones, the CEO of SourseAI, said their mission is to apply the patented machine learning algorithms to enhance the experience for LiSTNR audiences using a whole range of data.

“Machine learning models make it possible to drive the key media metrics of frequency of engagement and time spent. By personalizing the experience with Sourse, SCA will progress these metrics, resulting in a more engaged audience, and delivering improvement across both advertising targeting and yield,” said Jones.

Sydney, Australia – Australian-based media company Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) has announced that it has partnered with global broadcasting company BBC to make its popular titles and content be made available on SCA’s new destination LiSTNR.

Launched in February, LiSTNR is a curated and personalized free app offering radio, podcasts, music, and news, creating a new audio destination for all Australians. LiSTNR houses more than 100 premium original local, national and global podcasts, live radio streams, radio podcasts and digital music stations from the Hit and Triple M networks, 15 linear music live streaming channels, four weekly music podcasts and an on-demand audio news and info service.

Said BBC content will be made available on LiSTNR on 23 June, and will include programs such as those of renowned broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough; English economist, broadcaster and journalist Tim Harford; music programs ‘Desert Island Discs’ and ‘Essential Mix’; ‘In Concert’ which is the BBC’s largest audio collection of live recordings; and music audio program ‘Pop Documentaries’.

According to Grant Blackley, CEO at SCA, when they first launched LiSTNR, they promised it was only the beginning, and now they couldn’t be more delighted that their first LiSTNR partnership is with the BBC which will bring their audiences world class, compelling, premium content from its vast library.

“We have selected BBC content that will resonate with our listeners and attract new audiences to LiSTNR. This is the first of a series of partnerships that will see LiSTNR become the audio destination of choice for premium and popular content such as what we are offering from the BBC,” Blackley stated.

Grant Tothill, general manager for digital audio at SCA added that to have the BBC as one of their partners is a reinforcement of LiSTNR’s vision as a diverse range of premium curated and created content. He also added that said partnership is a great way to complement their locally created live and on demand content across radio, podcasts, music and news.

Meanwhile, Larissa Abid, senior business development manager for North America, Caribbean at BBC Radio International and BBC World Service, commented, “BBC works with some of the biggest names in music, entertainment and journalism to create world-class audio content. Our partnership with SCA will see BBC content available for the first time on LiSTNR. We are impressed with the LiSTNR personalized app offering and are confident that the BBC content slate will appeal to a broad audience.”