iHeartRadio updates its mobile app with a redesigned interface, new mobile features and additional exclusive content. The new app interface combines the ease and simplicity that listeners have come to expect with broadcast radio in the car with mobile streaming.
The updated iHeartRadio app design combines all the features of a car radio with innovative digital technology enhancements including:
- Presets – custom presets allow listeners to save up to 15 of their favourite radio stations, playlists, podcasts and artist radio stations. The presets will be available throughout the app.
- Scan Button – listeners can discover new stations with scan, and seamlessly sample nationwide radio stations, or filter by city or genre.
- Live Radio Dial – this feature enables listeners to easily explore the best live stations across the country. This experience mimics the same car radio experience that listeners know and love, but has the added benefit of being organized by genre and location for ease of discovery.
- What’s Trending Rankers – Users will have access to a discovery feature that allows them to see what’s trending at that moment among other listeners across Top Podcasts, Top Playlists and Top Artist Radio stations, as well as features that are trending on iHeartRadio.
- Lyrics – iHeart is now the only digital radio app to offer lyrics for the song users are listening to on live radio. Users will also be able to follow lyrics karaoke style for tracks on artist radio and playlists.
In addition to these new features, exclusive editorial content produced by iHeartMedia stations across the country is now accessible from inside the iHeartRadio app. It contains the latest news about the biggest artists, all of iHeartRadio’s exclusive in-studio interviews and the one-tap, enter-to-win contests that iHeart is famous for that fans can now easily explore inside the app while listening to their favourite music and podcasts.
“Our listeners have made it clear that they want a streaming audio platform that’s intuitive and familiar, reflecting the simplicity of the car radio while embracing the full capabilities of streaming technology,” said Bob Pittman, Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia, Inc. “The redesigned iHeartRadio app does just that, bringing together the best features of the car radio and the mobile app. We are excited to offer this new and improved iHeartRadio app just in time for Christmas – it’s our special gift to our listeners.”
The rollout of the new iHeartRadio app started mid-December and will be available to all listeners on Android and iOS by Christmas Day. The iHeartRadio app can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.
