Leading radio network revamps its mobile offerings to gain an unprecedented increase in users.

Radio.com needed to reconstruct their existing mobile app, improve the code base and driver user value, while highlighting their brand and distinct offerings, Radio.com needed:
- A unified app to provide access to all stations, while highlighting the aspects that make each station unique
- Full range of digital solutions services - high quality engineering, product management, design, and quality assurance - to ensure a consistent experience and a strong performance throughout the app and across platforms
- Needed a digital innovation partner able to dedicate full teams to their projects and expand those teams to meet future needs
Increased user value
Improved code base through reconstruction
Highlighted brand and offerings
Radio.com chose TribalScale for our ability to provide the full range of services, and for our reputation for industry intelligence, thought leadership, and communicative, iterative processes.
D I S C O V E R Y
For every feature we conducted discovery investigations to ensure we were creating an amazing product that would meet Radio.com’s business needs. A discovery allows us to (re)identify our client’s differentiation and uncover opportunities to drive value.
D E S I G N
We prioritized and value the user experience above all. We designed the iOS and Android apps with the user in mind, then we tested with real users to guarantee the app would meet their needs, and thus Radio.com’s.
D E V E L O P M E N T
Our iOS and Android development teams rebuilt the Radio.com app from scratch and integrated the application with Triton, Aptelligent, Gimbal, and Branch. Plus, builds for the native applications were released on a weekly basis.
Q UA L I T Y A S S U R A N C E
As with all our engagements, we conduct quality assurance testing across the board. This way, we ensure the Radio.com applications meet all development and design requirements, and gives the user a seamless experience
- GraphQL
- Apollo
- Java
- Kotlin
- Swift
- Objective C
- Analytics: Localytics, Google Analytics, and Nielsen ComScore
- Ads: DoubleClick for Publishers and Triton
Once the engagement concluded, Radio.com’s teams were able to fully take on the extensible and maintanble codebase for future work.
Building off this momentum, TribalScale launched Radio.com on four new platofmrs in 2018 - Fire TV, Amazon Alexa, Roku, and web. By building out Radio.com’s APIs we have ensured that these, and future integrations, are quick and scalable.
The number of monthly average users tripled in one year, without any paid marketing.
- 25% more monthly average users after launch
- 73% more monthly average users year-over-year after launch
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Heather Page
Chief of Staff @ TribalScaleSee how TribalScale is solving problems today for the entertainment industry
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