As of 2019, TuneIn's website and apps allows users to listen to more than 100,000 radio stations from around the world including AM, FM, HD, LP, digital and internet stations, and stream more than four million podcasts. TuneIn's directory lists various sports, news, talk, and music broadcasts from around the world. TuneIn's website is available in 22 languages, each with its own content tailored for the specific language or region. TuneIn also offers 5.7 million on-demand programs. In August 2015, TuneIn launched a premium service, “TuneIn Radio Pro", that includes audiobooks, sports content from MLB, NFL, NBA, news content from MSNBC, Al Jazeera, and more. Subscribers can record anything played through the TuneIn service, although the recordings cannot be played on other devices. In March 2018, TuneIn launched another premium live audio subscription called "TuneIn Live," which offers play-by-play calls from thousands of live sporting events, plus access to premium news stations, talks shows and other content. The company launched the subscription-based radio service exclusively for Alexa-enabled speakers and subscribers can prompt Alexa to stream news programs as well as play-by-play broadcasts of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL games. TuneIn Live marked the first time TuneIn premium content was available over a voice platform. In October 2018, the company launched a commercial-free news offering through TuneIn Premium, which included new programs from such as CNBC, FOX News Talk, and MSNBC, as well as news podcasts from Progressive Voices, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2017, the company raised $50 million and was valued at $500 million.
In May 2018, the company announced it would exclusively stream concerts from several summer music festivals including Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco, the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, RI, the Hangout Fest in Gulf Shores, Alabama, the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Delaware and the Newport Folk Festival. Two months later Cathleen Robertson, better known as DJ Carisma of KRRL, joined TuneIn to head Hip-Hop/R&B curation and artist relations initiatives. During the winter of 2018, the company announced that John Legend and several other top musicians would take over its “Holiday Hits” station during the season.
Sports
In August 2015, TuneIn announced deals with MLB and Premier League and the Bundesliga for live play-by-play coverage. This also includes the ability to cover the minor league affiliates. In October 2015, NFL announced a deal with TuneIn to broadcast live, play-by-play coverage of all NFL games to its premium subscribers. On December 22, 2015, the National Hockey League announced that TuneIn would gain radio rights to the NHL. TuneIn would create an individual station for every NHL team to simulcast their home market broadcasts on. Additionally, TuneIn would create a replay channel for each team so fans could listen to the games archived. They would also create a 24/7 NHL Channel, and the NHL would embed TuneIn's player onto the NHL.com website. All TuneIn NHL items would be made available to the public for free. The first broadcasts for TuneIn began Jan. 1, 2016. On February 15, 2019 the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball announced that TuneIn would be launching a 24/7 exclusive A's station which would include free streaming of all the team's games within the team's market as well as exclusive team programming. In 2020, it was planned for TuneIn to become the exclusive home of the A's in the Bay Area after the team abandoned radio in the market however the team later stuck a deal with iHeartMedia to have KNEW serve as the team's flagship station and A's Cast moved to the iHeartRadio app.
Audiobooks
In August 2015, the service launched deals with book publishers including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins to provide an audiobook library. In December 2017, TuneIn announced that it would remove audiobooks as of January 15, 2018.
Partnerships
In October 2018, TuneIn partnered with MSNBC to exclusively represent the sales rights of podcast, Bag Man: A Rachel Maddow Original Podcast. The also company partnered with Adobe Advertising Cloud in June 2018 to integrate targeted audio ads to consumers via smart speakers. In January 2019 TuneIn announced a partnership with pro-golfer Greg Norman to integrate its audio streaming platform in ‘Shark Experience,’ his line of connected golf carts.
Listenership
The company revealed it generated more than half a billion hours of listening during December 2018 and that overall listening hours rose 31% year-over-year. Also, they shared that its partnerships with third-party devices and apps increased unique listeners by more than 40%.
