Live streaming radio apps for Android Auto, Ford SYNC’s SmartDeviceLink and Apple CarPlay can now be quickly developed by Jacobs Media Jacapps. The apps are designed to place radio on a level playing field with connected car dashboards apps Pandora, Spotify and other streaming services. The connected car platforms will be available in 35 brands and 100 models. It is a radio first from Jacobs Media.
The apps put stations front and center on the connected car screen, which helps make them top-of-mind to drivers and passengers.
Today’s entertainment systems provide drivers with myriad options, many of which are accessed from their smartphone. And now, we can get radio broadcasters on the valuable screens of these vehicles to ensure that millions of consumers can enjoy hearing their favorite stations while driving.”
JACAPPS created the APPLE CarPlay for GREATER MEDIA Rock WMMR/PHILADELPHIA.
Thorough the JACAPP V4 platform, the company develops mobile apps that bring radio stations into the connected car on both Google’s Android Auto and Apple’s CarPlay platforms.
The company announced the products in time for National Radio Day August 20.
Jacobs Media produces the annual DASH Conference and the TechSurvey.
Jacobs Media Strategies TechSurvey12 shows some interesting facts about connected cars, media usages, radio listening, as well as self-driving cars