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Connected Car Solutions

Overview

Your one-stop-shop enabling audio, sports and video experiences in the car

The automotive industry is experiencing a rapid shift, as consumers demand more entertainment options and deeper integration with their favorite apps. As a result, automakers are facing a variety of new challenges – offering connected audio and video experiences, standing out from the competition and keeping up with the emergence of Android Automotive OS (AAOS).

Gracenote’s connected car solutions help to combine the best of audio, sports and video into a single view, making content selection quick, easy, and visually engaging for drivers and passengers. Gracenote radio metadata is available in over 200 countries and territories with consistent, quality coverage across radio bands AM, FM, HD, and DAB. Over 250M vehicles worldwide have shipped with Gracenote metadata.

Gracenote metadata for audio, sports and video content allows automakers to elevate and personalize in-car entertainment for customers. Differentiate from other automakers by offering an aggregated infotainment screen with content recommendations for a variety of media apps and services, based on popularity signals or user activity.

Media Types

Shifting the future of in-car entertainment

Radio

Enhance radio navigation by displaying names, logos and categories across stations to create an easy to use interface.

Music

Create an engaging music experience by displaying automatically recognized artist and song information, lyrics, related music and streaming links.

Podcasts

Power podcast search and discovery by category such as news or sports, by host name, and deliver recommendations for podcast series.

Sports

Give users the ability to follow their favorite teams and leagues, catch up on stats, and watch live games in the car.

Video

Allow passengers to search for and watch their favorite TV shows and movies, and discover new content using in-car screens.

Use cases

Create a next-gen entertainment display enabling navigation and recommendations that integrate audio, sports and video content

Automakers, Tier 1 suppliers & App developers

Provide a seamless entertainment experience across multiple content types, auto apps and services.

• Simplify audio discovery with radio, music and podcasts in a single view.
• Allow fans to keep up with sports content while in the car.
• Make it easy for users to find TV shows and movies to watch on rear-seat or passenger screens.
• Link content across media types, such as a music artist and any associated podcasts.
• Create differentiation with media browsing experiences that can link to preferred entertainment apps and services.

Coverage

Unparalleled coverage for all of your content metadata needs

Gracenote provides global and local content solutions in key regions across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Gracenote’s connected car solutions power search and discovery across audio, sports and video content, including:

• 140K+ station broadcasts in over 200 countries and territories

• 100M music tracks

• 2M podcast series and 125M podcast episodes

• 290+ streaming video catalogs

• 70 sports and 300K matches annually

See the map above for an example of coverage for our radio solutions.

Let’s discuss your connected car needs.