I think the Spreaker addresses the need for people to have their word or musical skills heard "live" by a potentially huge audience. This, based on pure merit. The concept of being able to podcast live and "on the go" is irresisible for simple people with opinions, stories or ideas to tell, DJs, large group leaders, convention speakers, and others
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Spreaker allows anyone to easily broadcast live audio and distribute it on social networks.
It can be used through a web-based mixing console (which includes production tools, sound effects and production music), mobile phones and also 3rd party applications. Every broadcast on Spreaker is stored on the cloud and can be later accessed as a podcast.
Spreaker also allows users to monetize their content by serving targeted audio ads and sharing revenues with content producers.
Team
Francesco Baschieri - Co-Founder & CEO
Francesco was founder and CEO of a previous bootstrapped startup (Waymedia active in the mobile marketing space)which was successfully sold to an Italian Digital Media group. Before that he worked for a number of organizations as Operations Director and Project Manager. He holds a Masters Degree in Computing Engineering from Alma Mater - Bologna University.
Donald Landwirth - COO
Operations executive experienced at building corporate ecosystems and infrastructure, taking start‐ups from concept to commercialization and profitability. Donald was a Founder or first C‐level executive of four start‐ups in online consumer products, IT consulting, realestate and semiconductor sectors.
Marco Pracucci - Co-Founder & CTO
Before founding Spreaker, Marco worked as senior software developer for a number of web and mobile startups. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Bologna.
Business model
Spreaker helps people create, distribute and monetize their audio content. Podcasting has not been able to express its real potential so far because everyone concentrated on distribution while the real hurdles where at different levels of the value chain.
Spreaker offers a revenue share model with their hosts, inserting targeted audio ads on the fly both on live and pre-recorded broadcasts. In addition Spreaker also offers premium plans which offer more storage, bandwidth and creation tools to content producers.
Competitive advantage
Very easy to use (one click broadcast & syndication) but powerful (web-based production tools: mixing console, sound effects library, production music library)