India's Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-09-11
Indian audio platform Pocket FM has doubled its revenue run rate to $500M with AI at the core: 99% of its new content is AI-produced, 93% of all audio content is AI-powered, and content production is roughly 80 times cheaper — a striking case of AI rewriting content unit economics at scale.
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