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UK forces Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant to carry radio streams ad-free
The UK government is designating Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple's Siri as regulated Radio Selection Services, compiling them to carry UK radio streams ad-free. The move applies to all AI-upgraded versions of these platforms and targets the 18 percent of UK radio listening that now occurs through voice-assisted devices.
The Wire takeaway
If you make a voice assistant or radio app, your growth-stage monetisation model just became illegal in the UK. Amazon, Google and Apple must now carry radio streams without pre- or mid-roll ads; if you're selling ad insertion or analytics to voice platforms, or selling radio listeners to advertisers, you have eight weeks to find a new market.
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Topics: voice-assistants · streaming-regulation · advertising-restrictions · radio-protection · uk-media-act