NEW DELHI: Amazon-owned audio streaming platform Audible, recognized for premium storytelling in India, has introduced a contemporary slate of content material particularly curated to have fun Valentine’s Day. The road-up contains three marquee reveals that can be launched on 14 February. Two of the reveals have been produced by fashionable, new age media homes, DICE Media and TVF.
The brand new Valentine’s Day programmes embrace a present titled Pitching Pyaar, a light-hearted coming of age love story by DICE Media, Everlasting Roommates S3, the first-ever audio spin-off of TVF’s fashionable internet sequence that includes Sumeet Vyas and Nidhi Singh.
One other present titled Outdated College Romance is a podcast on anecdotes of affection and relationships. The podcast options celebrities resembling five-time world chess champion grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand, actor Sharman Joshi, chef Sanjeev Kapoor, playback singer Shaan and comic Cyrus Broacha, amongst others. Audible can also be launching Dil Native 2, an unique podcast written and narrated by Divya Prakash Dubey, amongst different new reveals.
In an announcement on the brand new slate, Shailesh Sawlani, VP and Nation GM, Audible India, mentioned, “Romance is an immensely fashionable style and has been among the many most listened to on Audible. This Valentine’s Day, we’re including heartfelt and contemporary tales for our listeners to get pleasure from that includes a few of India’s most celebrated expertise. We’re at all times searching for alternatives to deliver numerous content material and immersive experiences that our listeners can get pleasure from.”
Actor Sumeet Vyas mentioned that season three of Everlasting Roommates on Audible is surreal. “This season is definitely actually particular as a result of it’s the instant prequel to the present you noticed on the internet sequence, and tells the story of how this couple really makes the shift from long-distance to residing collectively,” he mentioned.
Final October, Audible strengthened its content material pipeline for India, making a brand new catalogue of over 15,000 titles accessible as a part of its ₹199 month-to-month subscription. Free and paid podcasts and Audible originals included these narrated by actors resembling Sanya Malhotra, Kubbra Sait, Sayani Gupta and others, the corporate had mentioned then, including that India is among the fastest-growing markets globally, with a mean engagement of two-and-a-half hours per day.
Supply: Live Mint