With the FOOTBALLPEN you hear every goal – radio.de presents the perfect World Cup gadget and the best stations.

• For the World Cup, the radio.de selection offers more than 100 stations and podcasts about football
• The service can be used with all PCs, smartphones, Amazon Alexa, SONOS and the new FOOTBALLPEN.

Hamburg, 12 June 2018 – In the coming weeks, radio.de is the ideal service for all football fans who want to follow the World Cup around the clock. With the exclusive FOOTBALLPEN, the matches can even be followed discreetly during working hours.

A large number of radio stations are broadcasting live from the football World Cup. The public-service radio stations of ARD are reporting on all 64 matches. The German team’s matches and all games from the quarter-finals onwards will be broadcast in full. Private stations such as Radio Hamburg, Antenne Bayern and 104.6 RTL are also broadcasting jointly from Russia. In addition, there are numerous podcasts that report regularly on the World Cup. This keeps users supplied with all the scores, news on every team and background reports.

But beyond the pitch, too, web radios with the best party hits create the right atmosphere before and after the matches. During the World Cup, radio.de puts the best stations for football fans in the spotlight, making it the ideal companion for this major sporting event.

With the exclusive FOOTBALLPEN, radio.de presents a pen that uses bone conduction to let you follow the matches on the radio in any situation and completely discreetly. The device, which was developed by Havas Düsseldorf together with radio.de, looks like a ballpoint pen and can be connected to the radio.de app via Bluetooth. The limited first edition is being given away via radio.de’s social media channels.

radio.de is available free of charge as a website and app on all smartphones and tablets, as an Amazon Alexa Skill and directly via SONOS speakers. The service is also present on the smart TV platforms tvOS, Amazon Fire TV and Android TV.

“Radio is right there at the World Cup and, beyond the pitch as well, provides the right atmosphere and all the important news. On all important connected devices, our service offers users the complete selection, from live broadcasts to podcasts to the right music. With the FOOTBALLPEN, we also have the perfect gadget for employees who don’t want to miss a second. This way, we offer the right World Cup program in every situation,” says Bernhard Bahners, Managing Director of radio.de GmbH.

Darren Richardson, Chief Creative Officer Havas Düsseldorf: “The World Cup is one of the most important major events, followed intensely worldwide and especially here in Germany. Given the time difference in the host country Russia, it quickly became clear that work ethic and football fever would collide here. So we wanted to come up with a solution that charmingly answers the question of either-or with both-and: with the FOOTBALLPEN, together with radio.net, we have found a way to bring the World Cup even into the lunchtime meeting. Or simply: everywhere.”

All information, a video and the prize draw for the FOOTBALLPEN can be found at:

https://apps.radio.de/footballpen/

Further images and logos are available in the press section:

https://corporate.radio.net/press/downloads/

About radio.net by radio.de GmbH

radio.de GmbH is the operator of the international service radio.net, as well as the national services radio.de, radio.at, radio.fr, radio.es, radio.pt, radio.it, radio.pl, radio.se and radio.dk.

Following the successful launch of radio.de in 2007, the Europe-wide expansion began in 2008 and was continued beyond Europe in 2015 with the launch of the international brand radio.net.

With just one click, the service offers access to more than 30,000 national and international stations, web radios and podcasts. The right station is always at hand on the go, too – the free app is available for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, Apple’s tvOS, as an Alexa Skill and for Sonos speakers.

With the radio player, users find purely internet-based stations as well as the online streams of well-known FM stations. In addition to editorial and personal listening tips, the stations can be sorted by popularity, music genre, topic, city, country or language.

radio.de is the largest radio platform in Germany, with 33 million website and mobile visits in March 2018 according to IVW.

About Havas Germany

Havas was founded in Paris in 1835. The Havas Group is the largest owner-managed network, with over 20,000 employees in 100 countries. In Germany, Havas is represented by the Havas Creative Group and the Havas Media Group, among others. The Havas Creative Group brings together experts from the fields of creative, media and data and offers integrated brand management solutions. Havas Germany has three locations: Havas Düsseldorf, Havas München, as well as Havas PR & Havas Content and Havas beebop, based in Hamburg. The Havas Media Group is based in Frankfurt.

The services of Havas Germany cover the complete marketing mix: from classic communication, digital, CRM, public relations, social media, ambient media and design to healthcare. Havas Germany’s clients include PayPal, BMW Motorsport, n-tv, Savencia (Fol Epi, Géramont), Peugeot, Citroën, Reckitt Benckiser (Scholl, Dobendan), Olympus, Mondelez, Campari, Linde, RaboDirect and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, among others.