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Human experience guides everything we create, from the audio technology we build to the culture that drives our team. Discover the people, breakthroughs, and ideas behind AiFi and how we are redefining what shared sound can be.
Opt-In Product Mentions in Social Audio: Disclosure, Measurement, Brand Safety
Social audio gives brands a rare chance to talk to people, not at them. When friends are listening together, chatting, and reacting in real time, attention is high and walls are down. That is exactly why clumsy ad breaks feel so wrong. They break the mood, pull people out of the conversation, and make trust drop fast. In this article, we walk through how to design...
From Social Listening to Real-Time Trend Triggers: Streaming-Scale Signals
From Social Listening to Real-Time Social Signals Streaming apps do not have to be passive background noise. Every play, pause, skip, and share can turn into a live signal that helps shape what people hear and see next. When those signals are captured in real time, inside the apps and devices people already use, social listening technology for apps becomes much more...
Turning Viewers Into Buyers on Second Screen Without Killing the Story
From Passive Watching to Seamless Shopping Moments Turning viewers into buyers on a second screen sounds great, until the story gets punched in the face by a giant QR code. When people sit down for a summer blockbuster, a long playoff game, or a new streaming premiere, they want to feel the story first. At the same time, they already have a phone in their hand,...
Beyond Shoppable Video: Building Monetizable Audio Infrastructure
Turn Every Listener Moment Into Revenue Power Shoppable video is crowded. Feeds are noisy, attention is split across phones, TVs, cars, and speakers, and the same formats keep repeating until they blur together. CPMs feel tighter, not bigger, and it takes more effort just to stay in the same place. Audio is where a lot of real life happens. People listen while they...
Common Social Audio Mistakes Streaming Platforms overlook
Turning Passive Listening Into Social Experiences Most streaming apps still treat listening as a private bubble. One person, one phone, one pair of headphones. That might work on a quiet weekday night, but it starts to crack when real life kicks in with graduations, barbecues, spring festivals, and crowded living rooms during big games. People gather, but the sound...
What Happens When Phones Become a Mesh Sound System
When Every Phone Becomes Part of the Soundstage When sound breaks out of a single speaker, everything about an event changes. A quiet TV in the corner becomes a full-room cheer. A small stage feels bigger. People stop talking over the audio and start reacting to it, together. That is what happens when we turn phones into a mesh sound system. Think about a summer...
Turn Phones Into a Mesh Sound System for Shared Streaming
From Solo Listening to Shared Streaming Most of us walk around with a powerful speaker in our pocket, but we usually use it for a very small thing. One phone, one listener, tiny sound. When friends get together to share a song or a video, everyone leans over one device, or someone fights with Bluetooth and a single speaker. The moment is shared, but the sound is...
Stop Losing Viewers to the Second Screen
Stop Losing Viewers to the Second Screen Your ad breaks are not working the way your dashboards say they are. Viewers might technically stay in session on your AVOD or FAST service, but their eyes and thumbs have already shifted to the one device you are not controlling: the phone in their hand. The hard truth is simple and uncomfortable: you cannot monetize a...
Zero-Drag Integration with a White-Label Audio Sync SDK
Remove Engineering Roadblocks to Social Audio Innovation The biggest barrier to innovation in streaming usually is not ideas; it is the engineering backlog. Product sees the opportunity, partnerships are in place, and design has a clear vision, but the audio work gets stuck behind months of core platform priorities. Social listening, watch parties, and interactive...
Introducing Multi-Sound: Turning Every Screen Into a Shared Soundstage
Why Watch on Three Screens but Listen on One Most of us stream across a small army of devices, switching between phones, laptops, TVs, and tablets without a second thought. Video has kept up with this multi-screen life, yet audio is still stuck on a single, lonely output. You might have a TV playing a show, a laptop open to a watch party, and a phone in your hand,...
How Collaborative Playlist Sessions Boost Retention by 87%
Shared Listening That Keeps Users Coming Back Collaborative playlist sessions are already changing how people listen to music. Listening is no longer just one person with headphones and a private queue; it is shared, social, and happening in real time with friends, followers, and communities. For product teams building group listening apps for Spotify and similar...
Inside Distributed Audio Processing for Social Listening Apps
Turn Every Phone Into a Shared Summer Soundstage Shared listening is no longer about one person and one speaker. People want to watch, listen, and react together, in the same place, with sound that feels big and connected. The trick is doing that with the devices everyone already has in their pockets. That is where distributed audio processing for smartphones comes...
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