Swell Radio

Swell’s standalone personalized-radio service had closed by July 29, 2014; the displayed day is an inferred dated-confirmation proxy.

Sources and shutdown details ↘

Search & answers · Closed; date inferred · 29 Jul 2014 · Observed closed by · Not the verified service cutoff · Concept.io

The record

A personalized spoken-word radio app that learned listening preferences and community feedback to build a continuous stream of news and podcasts.

Operator at shutdown: Concept.io Company source
Service end: Closed; date inferred · 29 Jul 2014Observed closed by · Not the verified service cutoffClosure source

Sources and verification

Original direct readback of Swell’s closure notice and RAIN’s firsthand failed-connection report ↗ · Checked 28 Oct 2026

Verification notes

Shutdown: The original July 29, 2014 report directly displays the operator’s completed-unavailability notice. July 30 RAIN News independently reports a failed live connection and a recorded goodbye, rather than merely acquisition plans. Display July 29 as an explicitly inferred dated-confirmation proxy; the exact last successful request, cutoff hour and time zone are not established. The earlier July 28 purchase report was still prospective and is not completion proof. StrictlyVC’s direct CEO interview documents a complete personalized listening task: content curation, learned individual listening preferences and community feedback automatically selecting the next spoken-word track. One record covers the former Concept.io mobile radio app and service; Apple’s broader podcast services, underlying recommendation technology and the unrelated later Swell social-audio platform at swell.life are excluded. A reported June 2013 US launch does not establish the earliest availability across prior regional testing, so first launch is unknown. Palo Alto is the operator’s product-period business city, supported by the original government trademark publication and the direct CEO interview; it is not an inferred Apple office. No account, listener data or app request was executed. Closure source
Dates checked: Verified 28 Oct 2026
AI functionality: AI functionality source
Launch: The June 2013 US launch followed regional testing; the earliest common public availability was not established. Trademark first-use dates are not treated as launch dates.
Location: United States · Palo Alto. The original June 4, 2013 USPTO publication, printed TM603/PDFindex602, names Concept.io, Inc. in Palo Alto for the Swell personalized-news software mark (serial85819808). The direct product-period CEO interview independently describes the company as Palo Alto-based. Use the evidenced operator-business city, not a later acquisition-parent location. Coordinates are the GeoNames city point rounded to two decimals. Location source · Coordinate source