About Broadcastr

Broadcastr is a worldwide social media platform that enables the recording and sharing of audio content. The application, available for free on the Web, iPhone, and Android, lets people easily create and share recordings on an interactive map. Just as in human memory, every story is bound to a place. Each Broadcastr story – including citizen journalism, stand-up comedy, oral histories, and personal messages – has a GPS location. On Broadcastr Mobile, users can take a walk while stories about their surroundings stream automatically into their headphones, like a museum tour of the whole world. On the Web, Broadcastr.com serves as a living archive of human memory and experience. “We see Broadcastr as the evolution of talk radio,” notes Cofounder Andy Hunter. “Just like YouTube changed video forever, Broadcastr lets us all participate as creators and curators.” Users of Broadcastr can record their own content, create playlists, follow their friends, and share stories on Facebook and Twitter. “Social media is missing a verb,” says Broadcastr Cofounder Scott Lindenbaum. “We tweet. We blog. We YouTube, and we Facebook. What about our voices? Now, we Broadcast them.” Whether delivering last night’s details to friends, sharing restaurant reviews, dispatching citizen journalism accounts, or telling hilarious anecdotes, Broadcastr amplifies all of our voices.

Find out more by visiting www.broadcastr.com.

Cofounders
Broadcastr

Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum are the cofounders of Broadcastr. Prior to Broadcastr, they founded the app-creation company Electric Publisher and digital publisher Electric Literature. Electric Publisher’s app-creation engine has been showcased in the New York Times and has been licensed by publishers and organizations, from HarperCollins to Human Rights Watch. Electric Literature’s mission to use digital media and distribution to keep literature part of popular culture has earned praise in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and Entertainment Weekly.

Presented February 3, 2011