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🏆 🇮🇹 Exciting news from Storytel Italy! The Italian comedy podcast “Sorry for the Long Voice Message” has been awarded Best Comedy Podcast at the Italian Podcast Awards. 🏆 “Sorry for the Long Voice Message” is an original Storytel podcast, a funny and innovative romantic comedy about love, growing up, and destiny. It achieves this by eavesdropping on the phone conversations and voice messages of three irresistible young protagonists, similar to when we are on a train and hear someone whispering on the phone, and our curiosity gets the better of us. Congratulations Marco Novali, Benedetta Aroldi, Antonio La Rosa, Giuditta Cittone and the whole team Italy! 🎉

Exciting news! ✨ We are proud to announce a three-year sponsorship agreement with the Swedish Football Association (Svenska Fotbollförbundet) and the women's national football team. Our campaign highlights the inspiring journeys of three team heroes: Zećira Mušović, Madelen Janogy, and Nathalie Björn who all share personal stories about victories, losses, and the love for the game.🧡 ⚽

The second installment of the Becoming Sherlock audiobook series is finally about to be released. 🕵♂️ 🎧 Becoming Sherlock: The Irregulars, is written by the acclaimed thriller author Sarah J Naughton, under the creative direction of the bestselling TV, film, and novel writer Anthony Horowitz. Becoming Sherlock is released on multiple markets, and exclusively on Storytel. In the attached reel you can see and hear some of the local adaptations of The Irregulars. Narrators in order of appearance:  Alfred Enoch (English) Johannes Holopainen (Finnish) Filip Kosior (Polish) Martin Greis-Rosenthal (Danish) Martin Wallström (Swedish) Tim Olivier Somer (Dutch)

Storytellers from across the world recently came together at Campfire - an IRL event in Stockholm dedicated to creativity, culture, and connections.🔥 It was engaging days filled with collaborative sessions, inspiration from Josh Lenn and Cedwin Sandanam among others - and, of course, lots of fun! 🧡

Congratulations to Bobby Oduncu for being awarded Storyteller of the year by KVINNOVATION!  🏆 📚 🎧 We’re very proud that Storytel Sweden has sponsored the 2024 Storyteller of the Year event organized by Kvinnovation, an association that educates and inspires young women in entrepreneurship and leadership. Storyteller of the Year is a brand new initiative aimed at celebrating the power of storytelling. The winner was selected from the three remarkable finalists Bobby Oduncu, Clara Törnvall and Siduri Poli, all nominated for their recently released autobiographies and for raising awareness about issues that are important to them personally and to society at large. The jury selected Bobby Oduncu as the winner for his ability to create change through the power of storytelling.

Exciting news for audiobook lovers in Sweden and Denmark! 🧡 We're thrilled to launch our new subscription plan, the innovative 'Flex' plan, which will add even more flexibility and value to your listening experience. With 'Flex', you get 20 hours of audiobook enjoyment per month, and here's the best part: any unused hours are automatically moved to the next month! That means you can save up to 100 hours of listening time as long as your subscription is active. But wait, there's more! 🎓 Additionally, we are introducing a brand new student subscription plan where students are offered half the price of the Premium subscription, with 100 hours of listening a month, for half the price - for life. Happy listening! 🎧 ✨

📣 This morning Storytel released its Q1 2024 interim report. CEO Johannes Larcher says: "The first quarter marked another step up in our financial performance as Storytel delivered a strong result with improved profitability and operational cash flow." 📊 Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dJ2BM-yt #storytel #results #Q1

“Our strategy of profitable growth translated into strong performance and we are doing substantially better financially than a year ago.” Please enjoy Storytel's Annual Report and Sustainability Report for 2023 🧡 🌱

The Storytel Awards season has concluded. 🎉 Authors and narrators have been celebrated and honored at the galas in Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo, Reykjavik, and Amsterdam. 🏆 More than 60 statuettes have been awarded to the storytellers behind the stories that moved, informed, and entertained the audiobook listeners the most in 2023.

Did you know that 89% of Storytel's listeners have abandoned a book not because the book was bad, but because the narration did not suit them? Today, Storytel is launching the Voice Switcher in Sweden – an innovative feature that allows audiobook listeners to switch seamlessly between different narrations.  Using new technology, the original human narrator is supplemented by three different first-class AI generated voices, for the first time optimized for reading fiction. – This launch is more than just a feature. It's a statement of our leadership in innovation and our dedication to enhancing the audiobook experience for our listeners worldwide, says Johan Ståhle, Chief Product Officer at Storytel. The Voice Switcher is available on 25 selected titles in the Swedish service as of now. Check out the voices of Amanda, Carin, Erik, Martin and Stefan. 🎧 📚 – We are very excited for our customers to try this feature out and experience the incredible quality of our Swedish synthetic voices. We did a test amongst people on the streets of Stockholm before the launch, and the results are mind blowing: 9 out of 10 could not tell which narration was human, says Johan Ståhle, and adds: – It will of course always be clearly evident to the customers whether they are listening to an AI voice or a human narrator, but the test is a nice confirmation that we have developed synthetic voices of the highest quality. The Voice Switcher is made possible by a unique technology for generating AI voices that Storytel has developed in collaboration with ElevenLabs.