TuneIn Premium is now available on Amazon Alexa-enabled devices, the streaming audio service said Thursday. Listeners can stream MLB games through TuneIn by saying, “Alexa, listen to sports,” it said. Customers can get a three-month introductory trial after they first enable the service; it’s $9.99 per month after the trial.
Charter Communications "strongly disagrees" with recommendations that it modify its advertising claims criticizing DirecTV's Stream streaming service but will comply, the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division said Wednesday. It said DirecTV challenged the ad, about sports programming available on Stream. NAD said Charter agreed to modify its "no local sports channels claim" to instead inform consumers of channels or networks not available as well as the specific package being compared. Charter didn't comment.
In a period of shrinking free streaming video trial periods, Vizio announced Tuesday exclusive discounts for new subscribers to Apple TV+, discovery+ and fuboTV. The three-month Apple TV+ promo, running April 25-May 30, is available to new and existing Vizio smart TV owners. The discovery+ offer is a 30-day free trial, available only to new Vizio customers who buy and register a Vizio TV April 22-Oct. 22. New fuboTV subscribers can get 20% off the first month of their subscription ($64.99 and higher) through Friday; Vizio smart TV owners can access the offer from the home screen, the company said.
In a promotion reflecting relaxed attitudes toward marijuana use in the U.S., Skullcandy announced a “joint” collaboration with Doritos, in honor of April 20, a day associated with celebrating the recreational drug and snacking. Skullcandy’s limited-edition Dime true wireless earbuds ($34.99), which went on sale Tuesday exclusively at Skullcandy.com, have a Doritos Nacho Cheese print, and only 420 units will be sold, the company said. The earphones have up to 12 hours’ battery life, an IPX4 water resistance rating, micro-USB charging case and are covered under the company’s replacement discount policy.
Logitech, which identified creators as a target consumer market as it scales back its audio and smart home businesses, announced the Logitech Creator Society and the Together We Create campaign Wednesday. The campaign is a “collective call to action” to shape the future of creating, said Erin Chin, chief marketing officer-Logitech for Creators. The company plans its second annual Song Breaker Awards this month, recognizing creators who helped promote artists and songs through trends and dance challenges they have developed and shared on social media, it said.
Skullcandy announced a yearlong, music-based “Find Your Frequency” campaign featuring new music video performances from emerging artists every month. The videos will be accompanied by giveaways, artist interviews and behind-the-scenes content, produced by Skullcandy’s creative team. Content will run on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, Skullcandy said Tuesday.
GE will donate 10% of Profile 600 series laundry appliances sold at Best Buy in stores and online through April 13 as part of a Best Buy Teen Tech Center Give Back event, the companies said Thursday. The donations will give teens access to technology and tools for career preparation, they said. The program is on track to support more than 30,000 teens annually via 100 tech centers by 2025.
AT&T's claims it offers "up to 20x faster upload speed" than cable is a "misleading claim" because the disclosures "were not sufficiently clear and prominent to limit the claim to AT&T’s fastest fiber service," said a Better Business Bureau National Advertising Review Board panel Wednesday in response to the ISP's appeal (see 2111180033). The panel recommended AT&T modify or discontinue certain advertising claims about its fiber internet service and "avoid making the implied claim that fiber technology provides faster internet service in general or is invariably superior to cable technology." AT&T told the panel it "will comply" with its decision but “respectfully disagrees[s] with the balance of NARB’s conclusion recommending that other AT&T Fiber ads should be discontinued or modified.” AT&T didn't comment further.
Home energy monitor company Sense is running a $40-off promotion Feb. 15-20 on its Sense monitor ($299) that tracks and reports energy usage via mobile app, the company said Tuesday. The device, which installs in a home’s electrical panel, uses waveform energy to measure electrical signatures of individual devices a million times per second, giving homeowners immediate feedback on potential energy drains in their home, the company said. It can also recommend the best time to run high-load appliances such as a washing machine or when to charge an electric car, it said. The code for the deal is WINTER at Amazon.com.
Crosley Radio landed the rights from Apple Corps to introduce The Beatles Let It Be Anthology Turntable, $199, in limited edition to commemorate the release of the Disney+ docuseries The Beatles: Get Back on Blu-ray and DVD, said the vendor Thursday. The deal was brokered by Thread Shop, Sony Music’s licensing and merchandising division, it said. The Blu-ray and DVD were postponed indefinitely from their Feb. 8 release. Crosley will distribute only 1,500 turntables, and only through independent U.S. record stores, it said.