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# ShoutOut Radio Recreates Song Dedication On Facebook
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/shoutout-radio-recreates-song-dedication-on-facebook/
- Published: 2012-08-23T12:42:24.000Z
- Updated: 2012-08-23T12:42:24.000Z
- Description: Remember the days of dedicating songs to friends on the local radio station? The novelty / excitement in that was hopefully everyone you knew (and many you didn’t) would hear. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2012/08/shoutout-radio-recreates-song-dedication-on-facebook.html]
- Author: admin
- Tags: Apps, Mobile & SMS, Social Media, Startups & Funding, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:49

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Remember the days of dedicating songs to friends on the local  
radio station? The novelty / excitement in that was hopefully everyone you knew  
(and many you didn’t) would hear *your* name  
mention *theirs*, but more importantly,  
provide **some underlining context to a song** that connects you two. [ShoutOut](http://www.shoutoutradio.com/?ref=hypebot.com)  
[Radio](http://www.shoutoutradio.com/?ref=hypebot.com) is an app that strives to achieve a similar novelty by letting you send,  
receive and hear music with your Facebook friends and is currently on the hunt  
for funds with a $16,000 Kickstarter campaign.

  
The app  
itself is pretty straightforward. A user simply picks a song from the ones they  
have stored on their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, or they can choose from a  
cloud-based catalog of millions of songs. They then choose one or more of their  
Facebook friends to dedicate the song to, attach an optional text message, and  
decide whether the ShoutOut be made private or public.

Facebook friends need not have the app to get the  
message, but one minor downside is that the songs will be played back as 30 or  
90-second samples; not a huge deal considering the point is really to associate  
a song with a friend or group of friends. However, users will be able to build  
their own radio station around any songs that they’ve used or the ones that are  
sent to them, and *those* will consist  
of full versions of the songs.

The ShoutOut Radio iOS app is expected to launch in iTunes in  
early-to-mid Septemeber. The Kickstarter money will go towards marketing the iOS  
launch, building an Android version, and adding new features like music identification technology (so you can dedicate songs that hit you at any given  
moment) and full SoundCloud integration.

[Their Kickstarter campaign](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/198656560/send-receive-and-listen-to-music-with-your-faceboo?ref=live) itself has an interesting tiered offering for backers. A higher level pledge  
of $750 gets your name and image embedded as an easter egg within the app,  
a pledge of $1,000 get you six hours of conversation time with the CEO about  
how to be an entrepreneur, and a pledge of $2,500 or more will have you appear  
as an “angel investor” in the About Us section of the app.

As of this  
writing, ShoutOut Radio has almost $1,500 of their funding secured with just under  
two weeks remaining in the crowdfunding campaign.

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