HowStuffWorks Partners With Spotify to Enable Its Nationally Award-Winning Podcasts and Video Content on New Spotify Experience

HowStuffWorks Podcasts and Video Content Now Available to Music-Streaming Leader's Millions of Active Users


ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - May 20, 2015) - HowStuffWorks®, a leading publishing brand of objective, credible and useful information for people to learn about the world around them via nationally award-winning podcasts and video content, today announced that this content will now be available on a daily basis on Spotify, the music-streaming market leader with 60 million active users and 15 million paid subscribers.

"HowStuffWorks' leading brands, including Stuff You Should Know, Stuff You Missed in History Class, CarStuff, BrainStuff and more, resonate with millions weekly," said Jason Hoch, Chief Content Officer at HowStuffWorks. "Giving consumers access to great audio and video from HowStuffWorks while on Spotify represents a new experience we're extremely excited about. The new Spotify experience will provide customized HowStuffWorks content for the moments that make up users' days, from the morning commute to focusing at work to snacking on video clips throughout the day, giving them a 24-hour media companion with the content they know and love."

About Spotify
Spotify is an award-winning digital music service that gives you on-demand access to over 30 million tracks. Our dream is to make all the world's music available instantly to everyone, wherever and whenever you want it. Spotify makes it easier than ever to discover, manage and share music with your friends, while making sure that artists get a fair deal.

Spotify is now available in 58 markets globally with more than 60 million active users, and over 15 million paying subscribers.

Since its launch in Sweden in 2008, Spotify has driven more than $2 billion to rights holders. Spotify is now the second biggest source of digital music revenue for labels in Europe, and the biggest and most successful music streaming service of its kind globally. www.spotify.com.

About HowStuffWorks, a division of Infospace LLC
HowStuffWorks, founded in 1999, is a leading publishing brand that provides objective, credible and useful information for people to learn about the world around them and make smart decisions. The company's award-winning Web site and podcasts -- including Stuff You Should Know, Stuff You Missed in History Class, CarStuff, and more -- are the ultimate source for in-depth, easy-to-understand explanations, expert product reviews, comprehensive buying guides and informational videos, simplifying thousands of topics in the areas of health, science, travel, automotive, electronics and consumer products, among others. HowStuffWorks is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

HowStuffWorks is a division of Infospace, LLC, a business unit of Blucora, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCOR). For information, visit www.howstuffworks.com, and for information about Blucora please visit: http://www.blucora.com.

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