When it rains awards, it pours at Pocket FM! Last night, we beamed with pride at exchange4media Golden Mikes Awards 2024. Our Sci-Fi squad pulled off a clean sweep: 🥇 Gold for 'Shoorveer' 🥈 Silver for 'New Avataar' 🥉 Bronze for 'Number Zero' 🥈 Meanwhile, our audio series 'Yakshini' continues its successful run, spooking its way to a Silver in the Horror/Thriller category! Cheers to the entire Pocket FM team and our writers' community for redefining audio entertainment, and to you – our amazing listeners – for always supporting us on this journey to deliver unique and unheard stories! 🚀 #pushingboundaries #audioseries #pocketfulofjoy
About us
Founded in 2018, Pocket FM was built with a vision to redefine the entertainment space by pioneering the audio-series category. We pride ourselves in embedding the storytelling elements with a layer of content personalisation in the longer format that resulted in the emergence of “binge listening” as a consumption habit. Today, we have emerged as the preferred digital audio destination for a refined storytelling experience with the audio-series format, riding on our diverse and engaging content. With our unique storytelling approach, we have breathed new life into audio storytelling, reviving it as a mainstream entertainment format and unearthing unique and unheard stories across the world for our listeners. Today, we are building the most extensive repository of audio content on our platform. With over 100 million listeners community, spending an average of over 110 minutes every day, the platform has witnessed over 45 billion minutes of streaming in 2022 Pocket FM is a Series D-stage company that has raised US$196.5 million in multiple rounds and is backed by some marquee investors like Lightspeed, Stepstone, Times Internet, Tanglin Venture Partners, Goodwater Capital, Naver and others.
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External link for Pocket FM
- Industry
- Entertainment Providers
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Bengaluru
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- Privately Held
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- 2018
Locations
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Bengaluru, IN
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Mumbai, IN
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Los Angeles, California, US
Employees at Pocket FM
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Ben Freeman
Award-winning digital creator, British Podcast Awards gold winning executive producer and BAFTA winning TV executive. Ex-ITV, Endemol, Banijay…
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Gabriel Patolsky
Headwriter. Guionista: #Viajealcentrodelatierra (Disney +) #Opapopadupa (Emmy Nominee) - #Myamazingfuneral / I + D Content Development /…
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Patrick Kevin Day
Senior Writer and Narrative Designer
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Neel Lukkani
Updates
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Binge-watching? No way! Binge-listening is the new trend!🎧 We are thrilled to pioneer this consumption pattern with our audio series. American listeners are tuning in for an average of 135 minutes daily, and worldwide, people are tuning in for 115 minutes every day. Read all about it in the latest feature by Hype Magazine - https://lnkd.in/gpMVNg5G #AudioEntertainment #GlobalExpansion #AudioSeries #LeadingTheWay #BingeListening Rohan Nayak Nishanth S. Prateek Dixit Vineet Singh Subeer Bakshi Lalit Gangwar Ashu Behl Suyog Gothi Anurag Sharma Gaurav Tripathy Vivek Bhutyani
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Join the voice-volution with Pocket FM!🎤 Do you have a talent for storytelling? We want to hear from you! 🔻How to Participate: - Record a 10-minute voice sample using the script provided here- https://lnkd.in/gshK7E7m - Submit your voice sample here-https://lnkd.in/gvymrr-g and discover your potential! 🔻What's in it for you? - Get Featured in Pocket FM's popular audio series. - Receive Professional Training and gain valuable experience. 🔻Learn More: - Click here-https://lnkd.in/gvcYmu9J for detailed terms & conditions. - For queries, contact us at creator@pocketfm.com. Unlock your storytelling potential with us today! #ExcitingOpportunity #AudioSeries #pocketfulofjoy
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🎧 Unleash Your Storytelling Magic with Pocket FM! 🎧 Ready to captivate millions? Join the biggest #AudioSeriesContest and showcase your fiction stories to over 130+ million listeners! 🏆 Win exciting prizes upto $50,000 💻 Exclusive Writers Benefit Program 🗓 Register by 31st Oct 2024 Don’t miss this golden ticket to fame and fortune! REGISTER now <https://lnkd.in/gXPsX8tE> and start your creative journey with us!✨ #WriteHereWriteNow #storytelling #writers #fiction #creativeJourney #pocketfulofjoy #audioentertainment #audioseries #writeforpocketfm
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☀Make the longest day the best day!☀ • Breathe deeper with extra yoga!🧘♀️ • Capture every moment with more selfies!🤳 • Dive into the latest episodes of your favourite audio series!🎧 #SummerSolstice #InternationalYogaDay #SelfieDay #AudioSeries #AudioEntertainment #PocketFM #pocketfulofjoy
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Co-Founder at Pocket FM (Building Engineering Team- Hiring EMs, Data Science, BI, Backend & FullStack Engineers)
The big moment is here! Thrilled to announce our partnership with ElevenLabs and introduce the AI Audio Series. This initiative will transform storytelling by making it easier than ever for writers worldwide to turn their stories into engaging audio series. This innovation not only speeds up the creative process but also makes creating audio entertainment more inclusive and accessible. Here are some key achievements from our testing phase: • We have significantly increased production efficiency and reduced costs by up to 90% in the early stages. • Writers now experience a 10-12 times faster turnaround in converting stories to audio series. • We have produced over 30,000 hours of high-quality audio content during our experiments, with plans for even more in the coming year. • Users have given us overwhelmingly positive feedback, praising the quality and engagement of our AI-generated narration, which is at par with human narrators. Does it pose a threat to human narrators? Looking ahead, we believe human narration will continue to play a crucial role on our platform. We recognize the importance of diverse expertise in creating amazing audio series. AI narration will complement this by expanding our content library and accelerating our go-to-market strategy. And here's how AI complements the present creation landscape and enhances the audio entertainment industry: • Efficiency: Makes high-quality production faster and cheaper. • Democratization: Allows anyone to create high-quality audio series. • Adaptations: Creates narrations in many languages, reaching a wider audience.Provides realistic voices with emotional and cultural depth. • Content at scale: Produces large amounts of high-quality content quickly. As we expand globally and innovate in content creation, this marks a significant step forward in the evolution of storytelling. We are committed to pushing the boundaries of audio entertainment, enriching the experience for audiences worldwide. Let's raise a toast to the #writers and #listeners who make this journey possible! Big cheers to #PocketFMCommunity, #ElevenLabs, #AIAudioSeries, #Innovation and #Storytelling! Here is a media story on the announcement: https://lnkd.in/gKBMwmKf ElevenLabs Mati Staniszewski Carles Reina Rohan NayakNishanth S.Vineet SinghSubeer BakshiLalit GangwarAshu BehlSuyog GothiAnurag SharmaUmesh BudeHitesh Mantrala Othmane R.
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Another audio series enters the Rs.100 crore (approx. $12 million) club! Available in six languages, the blockbuster audio series 'Insta Empire' becomes our fifth audio series to reach this milestone in 2024, following 'Insta Millionaire,' 'Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To (Saving Nora),' 'The Return,' and 'The Billionaire Accidental Wife.' The series has witnessed over 250 million plays worldwide. Dive into this amazing series and enjoy the magic of storytelling on Pocket FM. #PocketFM #InstaEmpire #AudioBlockbuster #Entertainment #100croreclub #AudioSeries Full story here: https://lnkd.in/gP5JVXf2 Rohan Nayak Nishanth S. Prateek Dixit Suyog Gothi Lalit Gangwar Ashu Behl Vineet Singh Subeer Bakshi Anurag Sharma Gaurav Tripathy
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Few call it micropayments. Some call it no fixed charge. We call it microtransactions. Besides our unique episodic style of storytelling - 'audio series', our monetisation model has also become a huge success among our audience, as we made entertainment accessible to all. With 130 million users globally, we are reshaping entertainment with unique, unheard and untold stories. Thanks to S Shanthi for telling our story in Financial Express (India) Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/gsu_TqJW #PocketFM #Innovation #AudioEntertainment #GlobalExpansion #AudioSeries #Micropayment Rohan Nayak Nishanth S. Prateek Dixit
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Real life or audio series. Dads are the best characters. Always. Pocket FM wishes you a very #HappyFathersDay
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Pocket FM is turning up the volume globally, with the magic of audio series and innovation in our business model. Besides our pricing innovation with microtransactions, we have further developed a blockbuster engine for our audio series. Discover our journey in Business Standard, penned by Suveen Sinha. Rohan Nayak Nishanth S. Prateek Dixit Harsha Kumar Lightspeed Lightspeed India
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