Are you looking to augment your in-store audio branding? Starting today, Overhead.fm can add promotional messages to your playlist. These messages can be used to promote new products, locations, deals and more driving incremental sales.

Subscribers to the Premium and Enterprise have the ability to upload their own messages or request a custom message. User-provided messages are free, and messages produced by Overhead.fm cost $24.95. Enterprise customers receive five Overhead.fm-produced messages for free.

Overhead.fm is offering an introductory 20% discount on all messages requested by the end of January 2014. Request or upload your promotional messages to see if Overhead.fm can impact your businesses’ bottom line.

Almost a year after our last major visual refresh, we’re at it again. Over the past year, our old site saw a lot of small updates. Ultimately, though, it didn’t change as much as our product. Since the last major redesign, we launched a slew of major features, including multi-location controls and mobile apps.

While we added this information to the old site, it never felt like the best solution: our old site was clearly designed for a simpler product. With our multi-tiered product with a complex feature set, our site needed to improve usability.

Today, we’re unveiling an overhaul of our entire site. It’s cleaner, simpler, and more informative. We believe it makes it easier for current Overhead businesses and prospective users to find the information they need.

In addition to simplifying the design, we’ve added a lot of information to the site. Among other things, new customers can now see a concise list of our features for businesses, a complete list of our playlists, and a compilation of frequently asked questions.

Our new design is also more mobile friendly than our outgoing homepage. With the new design, we truly gave equal weight to mobile and desktop, reflecting the fact that many of our customers use our service on mobile devices.

Like most major changes, we’ve been a/b testing the new design for a while, so you may have already seen it. But starting today, we’re rolling out this new design for everyone.

Updated 12/10/2013: The homepage screenshot was changed to reflect the new look.

Overhead.fm has always believed that you shouldn’t need to buy or lease proprietary reciever harware to have great background music. To that end, we make it possible to play Overhead.fm on almost any computer, tablet or mobile device.

For many businesses, this flexibility is great, but it presents a challenge for businesses that don’t already have a computer or tablet in the shop, and it also presents a challenge for businesses with multiple locations that need an alternative to Muzak.

Now, with Overhead.fm’s new hardware player, businesses can use Overhead.fm as their background music provider even if they don’t have a computer behind the counter. Overhead.fm’s player is a 4.3” tablet computer powered by the Android operating system. It connects to the internet using your existing wifi connection, and it plugs into your existing amplifier via a standard 3.5mm to RCA cable.

Everything you can do on our iPhone or Android app, you can now do on our new dedicated player.

The Overhead.fm hardware player is priced simply and affordably. The player costs $74.95 with free standard shipping, and it has no strings attached: buying the player doesn’t lock you in to a long-term contract, and if you cancel the service for whatever reason you don’t have to worry about returning the device.

Updated 01/14/2014: Overhead.fm released an improved hardware player in January 2014.

Adult Album Alternative, or Triple A, is one of one of the widest ranging formats you’ll hear on broadcast radio. The Triple A format grew out of album stations of the 1970s and alt rock stations of the 1980s. Today, the format encompasses a wide range of great music, from classic rock albums through new indie rock and alternative. Beyond music diversity, one of the defining features of Triple A is a willingness to play album tracks and deep cuts.

On broadcast radio, non-commercial stations like KEXP in Seattle and WXPN in Philadelphia have lead the evolution of Triple A, giving new artists significant airtime and playing a particularly wide range of tracks.

Like its broadcast equivalents, Overhead.fm’s “Adult Album Alternative” station includes both new and classic artists. You’ll hear everything from indie darlings like Haim, Fitz & The Tantrums and Neko Case to classics like Elvis Costello, Depeche Mode, and David Bowie. The playlist ranges from free-wheeling jam bands like My Morning Jacket and the Grateful Dead to studio perfectionists like Steely Dan and LCD Soundsystem.

The “Adult Album Alternative” playlist is designed to appeal to a particularly wide age range - the playlist includes tracks adored by consumers in their early 20s through their late 60s. This music also appeals to high-brow music consumers while also including plenty of well-known hits for casual listeners.

If you have more than one location, your needs are different than those of a standalone shop. You need to be able to control and monitor music from your home office, consolidated billing is a must, and you need nuanced control to make sure that the music in each store is right - both for the individual location and for your brand as a whole.

Today, Overhead.fm is pleased to announce our largest update in months. Chains can now create a multi-location account that aggregates billing and allows them to control the music for all of their locations.

What’s really exciting about this system is the level of control it gives businesses. No other service on the market gives operators at head quarters this level of self-serve control. Businesses can use our music scheduling, or “dayparting”, interface to schedule music in advance for each location, they can block specific songs across all of their locations, and it’s easy to add or remove a location without calling an account rep.

All chain controls affect every location in the account, whether they’re accessing Overhead.fm in a browser or through our iOS and Android apps.

More importantly for your bottom-line, we’re extending Overhead.fm’s no-nonsense pricing to chains. You only pay for locations that have music playback enabled — admin users are completely free. And just like the corner store down the street, bigger enterprises can try Overhead.fm with a no-commitment free trial and no long-term contract.