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Radio World

Stations Try ‘Social Radio” Format’
December 6, 2011

Since June 30, Las Vegas radio stations KXLI(FM) and KYLI(FM) have been programmed entirely by their listeners. The music has been turned over to Jelli, a “social music service” with a crowdsourcing system that is driven by music choices from listeners who indicate their preferences via Web or smartphone. Read the full article

Radio Ink

Jelli Upgrade. Adds live chat to iPhone App.
August 8, 2011

The new Jelli 2.0 App is now available in the iTunes store. It includes the new chat feature along with several other features and improvements. The company says the new look and feel of the App makes it “look more like Johnny Cash and feel more like a Little Red Corvette.”
Read the full article

New Media Plus

Jelli Goes Live in Las Vegas!
August 2, 2011

Attractive, vibrant and inviting, Jelli has already attracted thousands of listeners who are now devoted fans. Jelli is not a new musical performer but an innovative user-powered radio format which has taken over two terrestrial FM radio stations in Las Vegas, KXLI and KYLI, with its unique brand of real-time social radio. Read the full article

Las Vegas City Life

Bombing the request lines: Jelli’s rock and pop radio stations allow online users to control the playlist
July 7, 2011

Someone just threw a bomb at The Ataris and returned them to obscurity. Another person put Linkin Park on a rocket and filled a few thousand peoples’ ears with the sounds of “Crawling.” All the while, a room full of people from all over the country type away with Twitterish flippancy, determining whether someone’s favorite band will perish to the sound of vindictive cartoon characters — or if it stays on the air, adding anything from radio-saturaters like Foo Fighters to former radio-queens like Alanis Morisette to the commute of whoever decided to tune in on his drive home. No, it’s not some really boring video game. It’s musical social networking, and the folks at Jelli think it’s the new revolution of radio. Read the full article

Social Media Today

Don’t tell Jelli there is no ROI in Social Media!
July 6, 2011

The site I have to admit is so easy to use it’s addictive; within seconds of registering you are affecting the world of radio, as we know it – “rocketing” songs to the top and “bombing” songs to the bottom of the list. Founder and CTO, Jateen Parekh explained to me how radio stations are basing their song selection on the listeners of Jelli and getting great results. In fact recently two radio stations have been completely taken over by Jelli programming! Read the full article

MediaPost

Jelli Brings Crowd-Sourced Radio to Vegas
July 1, 2011

When it comes to crowd-sourced radio, Jelli is hoping that what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. Jelli unveiled two new crowd-sourced radio stations serving Sin City, allowing listeners to control radio airplay through online voting. Jelli plans to roll out similar listener-controlled stations in other media markets over the next few years. Read the full article

8NewsNow Las Vegas KLAS-TV

Social Radio Stations Launch in Las Vegas
June 30, 2011

8NewsNow’s Melissa Durant checks out the two new Jelli stations in Las Vegas. Watch the video

Radio Ink

Jelli Goes Live In Vegas, With The First-Ever Social FM Radio Stations
June 30, 2011

This is something totally new for over-the-air radio, a complete jelling of the web with a traditional broadcast signal. Mike Daugherty’s 2-year old Jelli team has been working for months to get these two stations up and running in Sin City and, if successful, it could be very big for his company. Today Jelli goes live with its first FM radio stations completely powered by the social web. LKCM Radio has turned KYLI-FM and KXLI-FM over to Jelli, even rebranding them Jelli 96.7 (KYLI-FM) and Jelli 94.5 (KXLI- FM). Listeners will choose, in real time, every song that plays on the air via Jelli’s website (http://www.jelli.com/vegas) or Jelli’s free iPhone app (http://www.jelli.com/iphone). Read the full article

All Access

Jelli Goes Live 24/7 On Two Stations In Las Vegas
June 30, 2011

JELLI will launch the world’s first terrestrial radio stations completely powered by the social web later TODAY (6/30). LAS VEGAS will be the first market to launch JELLI as a 24-hour radio format. LKCM RADIO GROUP KHIJ and AURORA MEDIA KVBE listeners will be able to choose in real time every song that plays on the air via JELLI’s website or JELLI’s free iPHONE app. One station will generally play Pop music and the other Modern Rock music, but both will be branded “JELLI.” Read the full article

Seeking Alpha

Seeking Alpha Interview: Jelli CEO and Co-Founder Michael Dougherty
May 10, 2011

In a recent Seeking Alpha article, I discussed an online radio offering, Jelli, that somehow flew under my radar. After reading about the company and experiencing its site, I cannot help but wonder why the concept has yet to take off. I think Jelli can be both a competitive threat or a key partner to terrestrial radio broadcasters, Sirius/XM, and online radio pioneers such as Slacker and Pandora. Read the full article

Yahoo! News

Crowdsourced radio makes you the DJ
May 6, 2011

Two Las Vegas stations, KHIJ-FM and KVBE-FM, will soon be entirely sourcing their song lineup from listeners, thanks to a partnership between the stations’ owners, and a company by the name of Jelli. Read the full article

Fast Company

The Crowd is the DJ
May 5, 2011

“You’re on the air” takes on a whole new meaning with Jelli radio, which is creating traditional radio stations in Las Vegas that are entirely sourced from the social web. Read the full article

Radio Ink

Jelli Begins a New Era In Las Vegas Radio
May 5, 2011

CEO Michael Dougherty is hoping that what happens in Vegas does NOT stay in Vegas. His dream is to launch, what he’s about to launch in Vegas, in every market in the country. Jelli will soon be launching “the world’s first terrestrial radio stations completely powered by the social web.” Read the full article

Billboard

Jelli Crowdsourced Programming to Takeover Two Las Vegas Radio Stations
May 5, 2011

Two radio stations in Las Vegas are converting their entire programming over to Jelli, an online radio programming social game of sorts that has over the years increasingly blurred the lines between Internet and terrestrial radio programming. Read the full article

Sirius Buzz

Internet and Traditional Radio Collide With Jelli
May 5, 2011

Jelli announced today that two Las Vegas radio stations are giving up their own programming and instead relying on Jelli, and by extension Jelli users to dictate what is played. Read the full article

Radio Info

Jelli’s in control
May 5, 2011

Mike Dougherty thinks it could be the most distinctive new radio programming tactic since Jack FM crossed the border from Canada six years ago – listeners to KVBE (94.5) and KHIJ (96.7) will call the shots for the music, practically in real time, from the Jelli website or iPhone app. Read the full article

All Access Music Group

Two Vegas Stations To Use Jelli As A 24-Hour Social Networking Format
May 5, 2011

Jelli will launch the world’s first terrestrial radio stations completely powered by the social web in June. Las Vegas will be the first market to launch Jelli as a 24-hour radio format. Read the full article

Radio & Television Business Report

Jelli to launch social radio stations
May 5, 2011

Jelli (jelli.com), which mixes traditional radio with social media, putting listeners in control of what goes on the air, will launch the world’s first terrestrial radio stations completely powered by the social web in June. Read the full article

Radio Facts

Jelli To Launch The First Ever Social Radio Stations
May 5, 2011

Las Vegas is the first market to launch Jelli as a revolutionary, new 24-hour radio format. On KHIJ-FM and KVBE-FM, listeners will be able to choose in real time every song that plays on the air via Jelli’s website or Jelli’s free iPhone app. Read the full article

Seeking Alpha

What Jelli Means to Pandora, Sirius and Terrestrial Radio
May 5, 2011

As of now, most radio stations run Jelli in specific day parts, generally in the evening or on the weekend; however, on Thursday Jelli announced that two Las Vegas FMs — one Pop and one Rock — will run Jelli 24/7 as part of multi-year agreements. Read the full article

Appstorm

Jelli: Radio Meets Democracy (Jelli for iPhone app review)
March 20, 2011

Jelli is a new player in this category with a novel idea: vote-driven live radio. Keep reading to see what exactly this is, how it works and whether you should try it. Read the full article

All Access Music Group

Westwood One partners with Jelli
March 16, 2011

“This partnership marks an important milestone for our company and for social radio as a whole,” said Jelli CEO Michael Dougherty. “Working together, we will be able to connect more advertisers and provide more opportunities for advertisers to actively engage with listeners.”
Read the full article

KCBS News

KCBS News: Homegrown CEO
March 2, 2011

KCBS’ John Scott interviews Jelli CEO Mike Dougherty for an episode of “Homegrown CEO”. Watch the video

CNN.com

‘Rocks’ or ‘sucks’? Jelli lets radio listeners play DJ online
March 1, 2011

Do you think radio would be better if you could see the next 100 or so songs scheduled to play and rocket the ones you like from the bottom to the top of the list in real time? What if you could bomb the ones you don’t like, seconds before they’re supposed to play, or even make the DJ yank a painfully offensive tune once it’s on the air? Listeners to a growing number of U.S. radio stations now have that chance. Read the full article

IndiaWest.com

Jelli Aims to Change the Face of American Pop Radio
February 11, 2011

Described as a step beyond the current popular Internet-only streaming music applications such as Pandora, Jelli offers a more hands-on listening experience, explained the company’s cofounder and chief technological officer, Jateen Parekh. Read the full article

Atlanta Journal Constitution: Access Atlanta

Project 9-6-1 experiments with technology to give listeners more control
January 20, 2011

Project 9-6-1 this week began using Jelli technology, dubbing it “Remote Control Radio” from 7 to midnight weekdays. Users online can see what possible songs are coming up (18 songs are listed at a time buy you can scan the entire playlist). You can give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down, like many personalized Web radio stations such as Pandora and Accuradio. Read the full article

Radio-Info.com

Jelli signs Atlanta’s “Project 9-6-1” WKLS as its first Clear Channel affiliate
January 18, 2011

WKLS is a logical first step for Jelli and Clear Channel. As PD Chris William says, “Project 9-6-1 was launched in 2006 with an experimental spirit and a promise to push things forward.”
Read the full article

FMQB

In Brief – January 18, 2011
January 18, 2011

Clear Channel rocker WKLS (Project 9-6-1)/Atlanta adds Jelli’s crowd-sourcing radio technology for its weeknight programming. Hosted by Jordin Silver, the service allows listeners to control which songs are heard on-air. Read the full article

All Access Music Group

Jelli Comes to Atlanta
January 18, 2011

“Atlanta is a world-class music town and we are excited to see a Clear Channel station like WKLS be the first in town to put control into the hands of its listeners,” said Jelli CEO Mike Dougherty. Read the full article

MediaPost

Jelli Enters Atlanta Radio Market
January 18, 2011

Atlanta is getting crowd-sourced broadcast radio thanks to WKLS, a Clear Channel Radio station that introduced Jelli — a syndicated content platform from Jelli and syndication partner Triton that allows listeners to control broadcast airplay through online voting. The new WKLS show, “Remote Control Radio,” will air weeknights from 7 p.m.-midnight. Read the full article

Billboard

The Billboard Q&A: Michael Dougherty
January 8, 2011

The head of a fast-growing digital startup is adding a social dimension to terrestrial radio music broadcasts. Read the full article (PDF)

Technology With Mike

Interview with Jateen Parekh, CTO and Co-Founder of Jelli
December 17, 2010

Mike Tartaglia: Jateen Parekh CTO and Co-Founder of Jelli is part of a new type of radio broadcast platform. Jelli gives control of the music back to the listeners. I had a great time talking with Jateen and I want to thank him for taking the time to talk. Listen to the full interview

Hypebot

Best of 2010: The Most Interesting And Innovative Music Start-ups
December 14, 2010

Jelli is a company that helps make old-school radio fun and interactive. Using the “Jelli Tuner,” you can see what songs are playing across each of the Jelli stations, and tune in to the station of your choice. Read the full article

Mahalo.com

Jelli iPhone App Review
December 10, 2010

Mahalo.com reviews the Jelli iPhone app. Watch the video

Hypebot

Jelli Interview: Help Indie Artists Get Radio Airplay
December 3, 2010

In this interview, Dougherty talks about how his company is teaming up with traditional radio and the ways in which Jelli has enabled indie artists to get airtime on radio stations – without massive marketing budgets.
Read Part 1
Read Part 2

All Access Music Group

Power Player: Jelli’s Mike Dougherty
December 1, 2010

In an era where radio is in danger of losing a significant segment of its younger audience to more interactive social media, listener-interactive programming in the form of Jelli could very well be a potent solution. Former Microsoft exec Mike Dougherty started Jelli with Jateen Parekh and launched the pilot on KITS/San Francisco in the summer of 2009… Read the full article

SFAppeal

SF Digital Music And Music Tech Roundup
November 24, 2010

After one full week of using the app, I I enjoyed the experience of voting songs up or down, hoping my favorite would get airplay. It has the feel of 1982 when I used to stay up all night and request songs. Read the full article

Philadelphia Daily News

Dan About Town: WYSP lets listeners decide
November 18, 2010

94 WYSP is giving its listeners the opportunity to better dictate what gets played on the station. On Tuesday, the station launched the wMYsp show, which is hosted by Gordon…
Read the full article

148Apps

Jelli Is The Future Of Radio
November 12, 2010

The app is a completely interactive app that lets you vote online for what comes next (much like iTunes DJ), and also lets you chime in as to whether the song that is playing “Sucks” or “Rocks.” If the song fills up the suckitude quota, it is instantly yanked off the air and the next song will play. Read the full article

RCR Wireless News

Jelli Launches Mobile App
November 12, 2010

Jelli launched its Jelli iPhone application that gives users the ability to control what gets played on the FM radio or streamed live through the application. Read the full article

MusicWeek

Jelli Launches iPhone App
November 9, 2010

The iPhone app is free to download but currently only available to US users. It features ‘Rocks’ and ‘Sucks’ buttons which lets users vote on tracks currently playing. If a track receives enough negative votes, it will be pulled off air. Read the full article

Television Broadcast

Jelli Adds iPhone App
November 9, 2010

Crowdsourcing platform Jelli has introduced an iPhone app, allwoing users on the go to help program FM station and streamed affiliate stations. Jelli users vote for the artists and songs they love and want to hear, either online through the Jelli website or via the new iPhone app, creating dynamic playlists that determine in real time what will play online and on FM radio stations that use the Jelli service.Read the full article

Hypebot

Jelli Adds iPhone App
November 9, 2010

Jelli, a crowdsourced and social radio service, has released an iPhone app. Such news is exciting. It provides the tier of functionality that was missing from their current iteration. Read the full article

Radioworld

Jelli Adds iPhone App
November 9, 2010

The new Jelli iPhone app includes features that make the listening experience more interactive and social. Jelli users swipe through the “Tuner” to browse the online and FM stations programmed via Jelli. Users make songs rise or drop on the playlist by tapping the “Rocks” or “Sucks” buttons. The “Rockometer” shows what the listeners using Jelli think about the song, complete with sound effects. Read the full article

Media Post

Radio Signals: Jelli Goes Mobile with iPhone App
November 9, 2010

Jelli is making it easier to participate in its crowd-sourced radio service with a free iPhone app for voting on the go. Users simply choose a genre for the company’s streaming audio stations or affiliated radio stations and vote on the song that’s currently playing by tapping “Rocks” or “Sucks.” Read the full article

iGadget Life

User Controlled Radio Goes Mobile with Jelli iPhone App
November 9, 2010

Jelli changed the face of radio by putting music fans in live control of their local radio stations. Now the company is making the experience mobile with the Jelli iPhone app, so fans can control what gets played on the FM radio or streamed live through the app any time and from anywhere. Read the full article

App Shopper

Jelli
November 9, 2010

Be the DJ. Join in with other listeners to vote for the songs you want to hear, rocket up your favorites, and bomb the songs you hate to keep them from playing. It’s fun and free! Read the full article

evolver.fm

Jelli’s iPhone App Lets Listeners Control FM Radio Stations
November 8, 2010

Over a year after its impressive launch, Jelli has finally taken its web app to the next logical place: the iPhone.
Install the free Jelli app and you’ll be able to help control the programming on any Jelli-using FM radio stations nationwide… Read the full article

Yahoo! Finance

Jelli Takes Its Interactive Radio Stations Mobile
November 8, 2010

Jelli (www.jelli.com) changed the face of radio by putting music fans in live control of their local radio stations. Now the company is making the experience mobile with the Jelli iPhone app, so fans can control what gets played on the FM radio or streamed live through the app any time and from anywhere. Read the full article

iPad’O'Holic.com

Jelli Takes Its Interactive Radio Stations Mobile
November 7, 2010

Obviously it’s been probable to attend to these terrestrial air wave stations without Jelli’s iPhone app (you could only hit the FM symbol in your car) but until right away you’d only be able to correlate with Jelli’s choosing by casting votes network via a computer… The iPhone app fixes this; it lets users opinion up songs that they wish to attend to, both for terrestrial stations that are usingJelliand online-only streaming air wave stations that run 24/7. Read the full article

TechCrunch

Jelli Takes Its Interactive Radio Stations Mobile
November 5, 2010

Jelli, a startup that’s a mix between Pandora and Digg (with old-school terrestrial radio stations thrown in), has gone mobile: the company has just launched a native iPhone application.
Read the full article

Media Post News

Crowd-Sourced Radio More Socially Tuned
September 15, 2010

Mike Dougherty, Jelli CEO, stated that “integrating Twitter with Jelli cranks up the engagement quotient and makes broadcast radio more immediate, more responsive and that much more social.” Jelli has a similar partnership with Facebook Connect, announced in January.
Read the full article

Inside Radio

Jelli Taps Twitter
September 10, 2010

In the latest example of how social media is being used to drive additional radio listening, Jelli has integrated Twitter into its crowdsourcing programming system. Read the full article

Radio and Internet Newsletter (RAIN)

Jelli Integrates Twitter
September 10, 2010

Crowd-sourced radio service Jelli has added Twitter functionality — allowing users to send tweets to their followers when their songs are played on-air. Read the full article

Radio-Ink

Jelli Makes Radio More Social In 140 Characters or Less
September 9, 2010

“Integrating Twitter with Jelli cranks up the engagement quotient and makes broadcast radio more immediate, more responsive and that much more social,” said Jelli CEO Mike Dougherty.
Read the full article

FMQB

In-Brief: Listener-controller radio service Jelli has integrated Twitter
September 9, 2010

Listener-controller radio service Jelli has integrated Twitter into its online offering, letting users tweet when their chosen song is played on-air. Read the full article

All Access Music Group

Jelli Integrates Twitter
September 9, 2010

Jelli has partnered with Twitter on integration which further enables Jelli’s ability to bring the social web to the traditional radio broadcast. Read the full article

Fortune

Pandora by the dashboard light
August 25, 2010

Americans listen to the radio an average of 17 hours a week; over half of that takes place in the car. So it makes sense that car radio is the new frontier for online music sites like Jelli. “The car is the new battleground for the web,” says its CEO and founder, Michael Dougherty.
Read the full article

FOX 5 News Las Vegas

Music Fans Can Now Rule the Radio
August 4, 2010

All Access Music Group

KXTE Puts Listeners In Control With ‘Resistance Radio’
July 21, 2010

CBS RADIO Alternative KXTE (X107.5)/LAS VEGAS has added “RESISTANCE RADIO” powered by JELLI to its on-air lineup MONDAY-SATURDAY from 9p-mid hosted by night jock BEAN. Using JELLI, a web-based game, listeners can search a catalog of songs and vote moment-by-moment for which ones they want to hear and also vote down the songs they want deleted from the playlist, even mid-song. Read the full article

Xconomy

Will Jelli’s Crowdsourcing Kill the Radio Stars (and Save the Stations)? Stay Tuned
July 12, 2010

At Jelli, Dougherty and co-founder and COO/CTO Jateen Parekh are doing their part to modernize terrestrial radio, one station at a time. For the last six months, San Francisco-based CBS affiliate Live 105 (KITS) has been handing over its airwaves to Jelli’s automated, Web-based audience voting software six nights a week, with an electrifying effect on ratings. Read the full article

PEHUB

Streaming Music Startup Jelli is On a Roll
July 9, 2010

So how does it all work, who is using the service, and how big an opportunity is the company chasing? Yesterday, to learn more, I caught up with the company’s CEO Mike Dougherty. Read the full article

Central States Marketing Minute

Jelli: An Example in Social Media
July, 2010

In reality, utilizing Social Media correctly is more like a large advertising campaign: you need to be everywhere, and you need to be active. How exactly does your company go about achieving this? To answer that question, we’re going to take a look at a company that isn’t just using Social Media, they’re mastering it! Read the full article

JelliNoise

Interview with “Bean” of X107.5′s Resistance Radio (Las Vegas)
July 2010

San Francisco Magazine

The best of the (brave, new) Bay Area 2010 (#19)
July, 2010

San Mateo upstart Jelli is pulling off a coup in ram-the-same-tunes-down-their-throats Big Radioland by letting listeners vote online for a station’s songs; the most popular picks then play on the air in real time. Read the full article

Sirius Buzz

Does Sirius XM Internet Radio Appeal To The Younger Audience?
June 7, 2010

Some, like AM and FM radio have been around for decades, while others such as Pandora, Slacker, Last FM and Jelli are newer to the audio entertainment field. Read the full article

Reuters

Can Jelli make radio compelling to iPod generation?
June 3, 2010

Entrepreneurs Mike Dougherty and Jateen Parekh have developed software that changes the way listeners interact with live radio, but a panel of experts was divided on whether their innovation would be able to bring iPod users back to the box. Read the full article

Harker Research Radio Insights

Is Jelli the Future of Radio?
June 1, 2010

Jelli has taken the next step, and created a visible realtime link from listener to radio station. Not only are listeners in charge. They know it, and can watch it play out. Read the full article

Reuters

Web startup Jelli looks to rock traditional radio
May 25, 2010

“We wanted to be the bridge between all that engagement that is occurring on social media, on services like Facebook and the social Web, and pull that into this radio station,” said Dougherty, who co-founded Jelli 18 months ago with partner Jateen Parekh, a former Amazon executive who helped develop the Kindle. Read the full article

Reuters

Entrepreneur’s Edge: Jelli.com
May 21, 2010

Reuters Small Business presents expansion pitches from upstarts across the country. In the era of iTunes and mp3s, does anyone listen to the radio? Jelli’s founders believe they can reinvent radio for the social media generation. Here is their pitch. Watch the video

New York Times

Music Start-Up Jelli Raises $7 Million
May 17, 2010

Jelli has one of the more interesting and feasible business models related to music around Silicon Valley. It allows listeners to “take over” a radio station and collaboratively create playlists. It’s more interactive than a Top 40 or Total Request Live type of format. Read the full article

The Reinstein Digest

Jelli raises $7M for interactive radio from First Round, Battery
May 14, 2010

Jelli, a music startup that makes old-school radio interactive, closed a $7 million first round of funding with Battery Ventures and First Round Capital. Read the full article

Venture Beat

Music Startup Jelli raises $7M for interactive radio
May 13, 2010

The benefit of going with traditional radio stations, and not the online route like Pandora, is that old media properties don’t have to pay the same kinds of onerous royalties that Internet radio stations do. Read the full article

Radio-Ink

Jelli Closes On $7 Million In Funding
May 13, 2010

“Finally, Jelli is introducing disruptive technology that helps terrestrial radio become a 21st century digital business. Today’s consumers are accustomed to a customizable, interactive, and social media experience, and Jelli delivers that for a business that has been limited to two-way communication by call-in or SMS.” Read the full article

San Francisco Business Times

‘Social radio’ business Jelli raises $7 million
May 13, 2010

In its first round of venture funding, Jelli Inc., a “crowdsourced radio” business, raised $7 million. The San Mateo company makes a system whereby radio station listeners can contribute to or change playlists. The idea is to create a better way for listeners to request songs or interact with radio stations. Read the full article

Billboard Business News

Social Radio Startup Jelli Closes $7 Million Funding Round
May 13, 2010

Listener-powered radio startup Jelli announced it has closed a $7 million first round of funding led by Battery Ventures. Satya Patel, Battery Ventures partner and former Google executive, will take a seat on the board. First Round Capital also participated in the round. Read the full article

Sun Radio Network

Crowdsourcing the Radio
May 13, 2010

Jelli, a company that “puts radio into the hands of its listeners,” today announced that it had closed a $7 million round of funding by Battery Ventures and First Round Capital. The funding will be used for expansion of their radio market, development of new products and team growth. Satya Patel, Battery Ventures partner and former Google executive, will be taking a seat on Jelli’s board. Read the full article

Radio-Info.com

Crowd-sourcing radio technology company “Jelli” gets $7 million in new funding
May 13, 2010

Jelli, which first tested CEO Mike Dougherty’s idea on CBS Radio’s Live 105/KITS in San Francisco, says it will use the new capital for “radio market expansion, new product development and team growth.” The Series A round of funding is led by Battery Ventures, whose CEO Satya Patel is a former Google executive. Read the full article

Radio and Internet Newsletter (RAIN)

Jelli closes on $7 million in funding
May 13, 2010

Crowdsourced radio platform Jelli announced today it has closed a $7 million Series A round of funding led by Battery Ventures. Jelli allows listeners to determine a radio show’s or station’s musical programming by interacting online. The funding will be used for “radio market expansion, new product development and team growth.” Read the full article

FMQB

Jelli CEO Mike Dougherty & CBS Radio-SF VP/Programming Michael Martin
April 16, 2010

Mike Dougherty and Jateen Parekh launched Jelli in September of 2008 in San Francisco. The pair originally came from the tech world, not radio. Dougherty worked at Microsoft, while Jelli CTO Paraekh was closely involved in the creation of the Amazon Kindle. Dougherty notes that “our first day on the job was September 15, which was the day that Lehman Bros. and Merrill Lynch blew up. Read the full article

Mark Ramsey Media

Jelli Turns Radio Into An Engaging Experience
April 12, 2010
Watch Part 2

WIRED

Broadcast Spectrum or Broadband Spectrum? We Want Both
March 31, 2010

The model we propose is already in place, in the form of Jelli, a web-user-controlled radio station that dictates which songs play in near-real-time during some slots on San Francisco’s Live 105 and all of the programming on Australia’s 24-Hour Choose the Hits station. Read the full article

Radio World

A Jellied Future?
March 11, 2010

Content syndicator Triton Media has taken Jelli into its stable. Jelli is a Web-based station playlist interface accessible to station listeners; Jellied stations are controlled by listener input. Triton Media announced that 10 FM stations have signed on as Jelli clients including WBOS(FM), Boston; WPST(FM), Philadelphia and WJBX(FM), Fort Myers, Fla. Read the full article

Media Post News

Triton, Jelli Syndicate Crowd-Sourced Radio
March 10, 2010

A few months after announcing a strategic partnership which would include the development of new program offerings, Triton Media and Jelli said they are syndicating two “crowd-sourced” broadcast radio programs using Jelli’s interactive social-media platform. Read the full article

Billboard.biz

Business Matters: Jelli, Sub Pop, Live Nation, KISS
March 10, 2010

Jelli has partnered with Triton Media to launch two of its crowdsourced radio shows to national syndication. Ten stations, including WBOS in Boston and KXTE in Las Vegas. Jelli allows people to select online which songs they want to hear on terrestrial radio. It already broadcasts on San Francisco’s Live 105 six nights a week. Read the full article

Digital Media Wire

Jelli, Triton Launch ‘Crowdsourced’ Radio in National Syndication
March 9, 2010

Jelli, the provider of “crowdsourced” radio programming platform, and partner Triton Media on Tuesday announced that their “Rock Jelli” and “Pop Jelli” programs have launched into national syndication. Read the full article

Radio-Ink

Jelli, Triton Syndicate “Crowdsourced” Radio
March 9, 2010

“Each version of Jelli, Rock or Pop, is designed to provide the player both a fun and engaging experience at their favorite radio station’s website, and the casual listener a rich and entertaining new form of radio,” said Kirk Stirland, president of programming at Triton’s Dial Global syndication division. Read the full article

FMQB

Jelli & Triton Launch National Syndicated Programs
March 9, 2010

Triton Media and Jelli have announced that their new crowdsourced radio programs, Rock Jelli and Pop Jelli, have launched into national syndication. They will air in markets from coast to coast and are also streaming live at jelli.com. Read the full article

Radio Syndication Talk

Triton Media to Syndicate Jelli Programs
March 9, 2010

Triton Media, together with Jelli , the company that puts radio in the hands of its listeners, announced that their new crowdsourced radio programs, Rock Jelli and Pop Jelli, have launched into national syndication. They will air in markets from coast to coast — from Las Vegas to Bozeman to Boston to Philadelphia. Read the full article

Radio-Ink

Jelli crowd-sourcing launches with 10 stations, including a second CBS outlet
March 9, 2010

The beta testing was done on CBS-owned modern rock “Live 105” KITS, San Francisco, and now CBS adds the feature to its Las Vegas modern rocker, “X107.5” KXTE. Jelli, distributed by Triton Media, offers listeners a catalog of tunes online and encourages them to either vote for it (giving it a rocket) or against it (a bomb). Read the full article

Media Industry Today

Jelli and Triton Media Launch Crowdsourced Radio Into National Syndication
March 9, 2010

Triton Media, together with Jelli, the company that puts radio in the hands of its listeners, announced that their new crowdsourced radio programs, Rock Jelli and Pop Jelli, have launched into national syndication. Read the full article

Indie Music Tech

Jelli, a User Controlled Voting Service for Broadcast Radio Goes Nationwide
March 9, 2010

I’ve been a fan of Jelli for quite sometime, and even interviewed Jelli about 6 months ago, as the idea of allowing listeners and music enthusiasts to control broadcast radio is the right direction for terrestrial radio. Read the full article

Radio 2020

Spreading the Jelli: User-Driven Radio Catching On
March 9, 2010

Longtime readers will remember my prior posts about Jelli, the socially-driven radio experiment. Well, it’s time to check in with them again. Jelli is a groundbreaking approach to fusing broadcast radio and Internet-based social networking. Read the full article

USA Today

Jelli puts social networks to work picking radio tunes
March 2, 2010

Think of Jelli as American Idol, radio style, where the songs you hear on a station aren’t picked by a DJ or program director, but by you. “The future of radio is based on being relevant to a younger demographic,” says Mike Dougherty, a former Microsoft executive who co-founded Jelli. “This is a way to reach them.” Read the full article

Silicon Valley Business Journal

Jelli jams radio with interactive programming
February 12, 2010

Music lovers who have always wanted to be radio DJs now have that opportunity. Through a San Mateo startup named Jelli Inc., they get to be in charge of a station’s playlist for a period of time. Online, they give songs a thumbs up or a thumbs down and have a chance to get their favorite tune on the air. Read the full article

The Sands Report

She Don’t Use Jelly, She Uses… Jelli
February 4, 2010

Still, the reputation of Live 105 as ahead of its time took another step forward last month with “Free For All.” That’s a now nightly listener-controlled all-requestprogram. Truly all-request. Not a log that’s already pre-filled with songs you were gonna play anyway. And it’s all powered by Jelli. Read the full article

Lifehacker

Jelli Brings User-Driven Content to Online Radio
February 1, 2010

Many online music services allow you to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to songs that you enjoy or don’t enjoy listening to. Jelli, however, leverages the thousands of votes logged by its users to build a better radio experience. Read the full article

MAKEUSEOF.COM

Jelli: Get Radio-Active On This Fun Free Music Streaming Site
January 30, 2010

Looking at some of the web apps out there, you will be tempted to think that they have taken the ‘community’ bit a bit too far. But then, you just might turn around and say that’s a cool idea after all. I didn’t say any of these things when I first chanced upon Jelli. Read the full article

CBS5 News, San Francisco

Bay Area Radio Station Gives Listeners Control
January 11, 2010