SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (PRWEB)
June 01, 2022
HearHere, the Kevin Costner based cellular audio leisure app, introduced at the moment its rebranding to Autio. Autio will proceed to supply location-based storytelling with the corporate doubling down on their mission: audio for journey. Along with the Autio rebrand, the corporate is partnering with The Moth, a globally famend storytelling nonprofit, to donate $1 from every Autio membership bought to fund storytelling workshops, sources, and to supply a stage for individuals from all walks of life to share their experiences.
Autio gives an expansive audio library of 9,000+ brief tales throughout your complete U.S. with narrations by family names comparable to Kevin Costner, John Lithgow, Phil Jackson and extra. Whereas many customers hearken to the tales on highway journeys, many extra are utilizing the app on planes, throughout walks, and even touring just about from residence. With the corporate’s rebrand, Autio’s central goal is to optimize discovery by providing limitless methods customers can take pleasure in audio for journey.
“Our model evolution is synonymous with our mission to supply accessible and user-friendly content material for all vacationers,” mentioned Woody Sears, CEO and Co-Founder at Autio. “Autio is rooted in amplifying various and distinctive tales and our new positioning is not going to solely present extra alternatives to study in regards to the cultural richness round you however customers will even have the ability to recount first-hand experiences from underrepresented voices by our partnership with The Moth.”
Fueled by the model’s mission to spotlight untold tales, Autio’s partnership with the beloved storytelling nonprofit, The Moth – the group behind the Peabody Award-winning radio present and ultra-popular podcast – will present story writing sources, mentorship and a stage to underserved communities throughout America. For every Autio membership bought, $1 will probably be donated to The Moth Group Engagement Program to assist fund its Black Voices Challenge, Veterans Voice Challenge, and numerous different packages that interact individuals from all around the world by storytelling.
Academy Award-winning actor, director and filmmaker Kevin Costner signed on to hitch Autio (previously HearHere) as a Co-Founder in August 2020 to introduce invigorating and bountiful tales in regards to the untouched historical past of america. Spearheading innovation within the traveltech platform, Costner performs a key position in increasing the app’s novel content material.
“In becoming a member of Autio my main purpose was to shine a light-weight on the historical past and tales of our nation beginning with the creation of america and indigenous individuals. Our ardour for creating clever narratives in regards to the private historical past of our nation will proceed to be one in all our firm’s pillars,” mentioned Kevin Costner, Co-Founding father of Autio. “Autio signifies our continued focus to spark attention-grabbing dialog by brief anecdotes for listeners on any sort of journey.”
How Autio Works:
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Customers obtain the app (accessible within the App Store) and join an account. - Customers can entry the curated audio story assortment as soon as signed in (Free accounts include (5) tales, whereas paid accounts at $36/yr include limitless entry).
- As soon as customers allow location entry, they’re able to discover close by tales. As soon as in-app, they will reveal hidden environment with entertaining tales primarily based on GPS location.
- Whereas not touring, customers can nonetheless entry the map of U.S. tales and toggle to decide on content material primarily based on their pursuits
For extra data, please go to the web site Autio.com or download Autio on the App Retailer.
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About Autio Autio (previously HearHere) is a cellular audio leisure app for journey that makes use of geolocation expertise to mechanically play tales of landmarks, cities & cities close by. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA with a mission to ship a compelling story on the proper time, wherever you might be; the app options 9000+ tales spanning america. Many of those tales are narrated by a few of your favourite voices like Kevin Costner, John Lithgow & Phil Jackson. Autio launched to the general public in 2020 & has been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, NBC, Enterprise Insider, Journey + Leisure & Goop. The app is commonly ranked within the prime 5 highest grossing apps for journey within the Apple App Retailer & received the Webby for Finest Journey App. As well as, it has been featured as App of the Day by Apple. For a free trial, obtain Autio on the App Retailer for iPhone. Go to Autio.com to study extra.
About The Moth The Moth is an acclaimed nonprofit group devoted to the artwork and craft of storytelling. For 25 years, The Moth has introduced over 50,000 tales, informed dwell and with out notes to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth conducts eight ongoing packages: The Moth Mainstage, which excursions internationally, has featured tales by Elizabeth Gilbert, Hasan Minhaj, Kathleen Turner, Malcolm Gladwell, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, John Turturro, Molly Ringwald, Boots Riley, Krista Tippett, Damon Younger, Mike Birbiglia, Rosanne Money, Danyel Smith and Tig Notaro, in addition to an astronaut, a pickpocket, a scorchingcanine consuming champion and tons of extra; The Moth StorySLAM program, which conducts open mic storytelling competitions in 28 cities: 26 within the US plus Melbourne, AU and London, UK; The Moth Group Program, which gives storytelling workshops and efficiency alternatives to adults who’re too typically neglected by the mainstream media; The Moth Schooling Program, which brings the fun of private storytelling to excessive colleges and schools in New York, and educators around the globe; The Moth International Group Program, which develops and elevates true, private tales from extraordinary people within the international south; The Moth Podcast—the 2020 Webby Folks’s Voice Award Winner for Finest Podcast Collection—which is downloaded greater than 90 million instances a yr; MothWorks, which makes use of the important parts of Moth storytelling at work and different sudden locations; and the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour which, produced by Jay Allison at Atlantic Public Media and introduced by PRX, The Public Radio Alternate, airs weekly on over 575 public radio stations nationwide. To this point, The Moth has printed three critically acclaimed books: The New York Instances Finest Vendor The Moth: 50 True Tales (Hachette Books, September 2013), All These Wonders: True Tales About Going through the Unknown (Crown Archetype, March 2017) — described as “great” by NYT’s Michiko Kakutani and Occasional Magic: True Tales of Defying the Unattainable (Crown Archetype, March 2019) which debuted at #12 on The New York Instances Finest Sellers Listing. The Moth’s fourth ebook, The right way to Inform a Story: The Important Information to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth (Crown Archetype, April 2022) debuted at #6 on The New York Instances Finest Sellers Listing. Be taught extra at http://www.themoth.org/.
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