iHeartMedia, Inc.

iHeartMedia, Inc., founded in 1972 in San Antonio, Texas and known until 2014 as Clear Channel Communications, is an American audio company with businesses spanning radio broadcasting, digital streaming, podcasts, live events and advertising analytics. Its reach covers 250 million monthly listeners and, by its own account, nine out of ten Americans each month.

The company owns more than 860 radio stations across 160 U.S. markets. Its digital streaming service, iHeartRadio, is available on over 500 platforms and 2,000 devices. The podcast business is the industry's largest publisher, recording 170 million monthly downloads and streams. A live events franchise, the iHeartRadio Music Festival, sits alongside these distribution businesses.

Technical work at the company covers digital audio streaming, podcast distribution and publishing, broadcast radio, and proprietary analytics and attribution technology that draws on its consumer base to give advertisers targeting across audio formats. Roles are oriented toward data-driven advertising targeting as well as the underlying streaming and publishing platforms.

The company describes its founding ethos as the power of local radio to connect communities, and supports initiatives in mental health awareness, veterans' support and disaster response. Its stated mission is to create human connections through audio; it operates entirely within the United States.