BookMyShow launches music streaming and digital radio with Jukebox

BookMyShow's recently launched audio entertainment offering Jukebox has now introduced a wide variety of digital audio shows on its platform. In addition to downloading their favorite songs, Jukebox will now enable its listeners to easily discover and listen to specially curated BookMyShow original audio shows and licensed content.

This marks BookMyShow's entry into non-music entertainment segment by providing listeners comprehensive audio entertainment options across categories including Horror, Sports, Bollywood, News and Business, Kids, Comedy, Music, Entertainment (story-telling, drama, mystery etc.), History, and Mythology & Devotion. Together this will offer over 2000 hours of on-demand content to Jukebox listeners, and that too for free.

It is worth noting that Jukebox is currently the only service that allows its users to download the content and listen to it offline, without paying any fee.

The 'JustPressPlay' proposition, will give Jukebox users the best-curated entertainment options at their fingertips. Besides this, finding content on Jukebox is much easier now since it has been designed to show trending content first, followed by recently added and then delving into different categories of content.

Other than English, "talk content" will also be available through over 60 shows in multiple regional languages including Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Oriya to name a few.
In addition to this, Jukebox will add new shows every 15 days, and release new episodes of existing shows on a daily or weekly basis.

Listeners of Jukebox will also have the liberty to choose from four different streaming speed options- Data Saver, Normal, Good and HD.

"As BookMyShow is moving toward becoming a 360-degree entertainment destination, we are excited to explore the potential of audio entertainment with Jukebox. To make the experience unique for each listener, we will use a mix of machine and deep learning to understand user preferences and offer content suggestions in line with them," said Aditya Kuber, Associate Vice President-Audio Entertainment, BookMyShow.