Pocket FM’s AI content engine drives revenue run rate to $500 million

TechCrunch’s Jagmeet Singh reports that Pocket FM has doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500 million over the past year, with AI now producing 93% of its overall audio catalog and 99% of new content.

Why it matters. With production costs cut roughly 80-fold, audio and short-video platforms competing with Pocket FM now face pressure to adopt similar AI pipelines or lose ground on catalog scale and price.

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