MUMBAI: TuneIn, a free service that lets people listen to music, sports, comedy and talk from around the world, and TED, the nonprofit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading," today announced the availability of curated TEDTalks collections to the more than 30 million monthly active TuneIn listeners anywhere, anytime. This agreement brings riveting talks from the world's most remarkable minds in technology, entertainment and design to the growing TuneIn service.

"TuneIn prides itself on being a leader in listening innovation and could not be more pleased to bring TED's unmatched content to our service," said Kevin Straley, VP Programming, TuneIn. "With this partnership, our listeners -- wherever they are -- can access the rich and thought-provoking ideas TED has built its worthy reputation on. We're excited to make talks and performances from TED available to the world for free."

Listeners can access the 10 TED Podcasts through the new "Ideas" category within the "Talk" area of the "Podcast" section of TuneIn Directory Channels, which will also prominently feature TED Audio Stream. The TED Podcasts include such popular TEDTalks as:

--  TEDTalks Technology

--  TEDTalks News & Politics

--  TEDTalks Kids and Family

--  TEDTalks Music

--  TEDTalks Arts

TuneIn listeners can explore these TEDTalks and more by topic and speaker in order to create his or her own curated experience.

"Over the past year we have been amazed by the acceleration of users accessing TEDTalks through mobile devices," said Deron Triff, Content Distribution Director at TED. "We are delighted to reach news audiences through TuneIn, particularly because of its extensive reach across devices and geographic distances."

TED content is available via TuneIn through a variety of different platforms including smartphone apps, connected vehicle dashboards, Internet home entertainment systems and online at www.tunein.com . TuneIn Radio and TuneIn Radio Pro are the only audio streaming apps that have a 4.5 or 5 star rating on every mobile platform, worldwide.