60dB, however, is betting that there’s still room in the market for another choice. The app, which went live on Apple’s App Store Thursday, promises to create a unique listening experience both by tailoring its audio recommendations to user preferences and by culling those recommendations from a wide array of sources. Sometimes, those sources are actually video: 60dB features a “Late Night” category that lets users catch up on audio versions of The Tonight Show, Last Week Tonight, and segments from Comedy Central. Part of the pitch is that traditional radio can’t match that kind of diversity.
60dB’s team certainly has the credentials to make personalization work: Two of its three founders spent over a decade at Netflix, where one, John Ciancutti, developed the first iteration of Netflix’s personalization algorithm.
Beyond aggregating audio created elsewhere, 60dB is taking a stab at producing content specific to its app. Original “at 60dB” segments feature reporters from publications such as Mic, Quartz, The Atlantic, and Vice’s Motherboard talking about recent stories. These segments, which usually run from three to ten minutes, are produced by the handful of journalists that 60dB hired to search for compelling stories and interview their writers. (The publishers don’t have a hand in creating the segments.)
While 60dB is only on iOS at the moment, its developer Tiny Garage Labs is also working on integrations for Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant. The app’s developers are betting that 60DB’s personalization technology will be well-suited to hands-free interactions.
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