Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live
65
Quality Score
Solid
Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live
Medium confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live is an Android app from News Corp UK & Ireland Limited in the Entertainment category, currently rated 4.6★ across 7,650 ratings. Initial signal reads as largely positive sentiment, users highlighting consistency and feature depth.
Quality Score is 65: Solid (established niche player). For a Entertainment app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$808
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$707 – $2549
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$655 – $5896
per month
INDIE tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Slow ROI — current MRR is well below build cost
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙ Entertainment complexity ×1.30 | +$15K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$36K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$10K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $10K – $15K · 15× MRR multiple
💸
~0.1× build cost (under-water)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Entertainment category multiple | -5% |
Final multiple
15× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.1M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
130K
Daily active
52K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Entertainment engagement | ~150 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Entertainment D30 retention | 12% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
40% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
LOW CONFIDENCEBaseline
$808/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+6.0% MoM · INDIE tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$689 – $1.6K
12 months
$707 – $2.5K
24 months
$655 – $5.9K
Compound growth at +6.0% MoM (tier baseline for INDIE). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±40% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Early-stage solo · 47/100INDIE TIERexpected for tierRevenue Strength
2.9
Product Quality
8.2
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.0
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
- 💰 Revenue: Marginal — $323 - $2022/mo · INDIE tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.58★ across 7,650 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $14K-$25K. Portfolio play ($1K/mo combined) commands premium.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 4 of 4 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Excellent rating (4.6★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| Low install base (7,650 ratings)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (10y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live
- Developer
- News Corp UK & Ireland Limited
- Bundle ID
- uk.co.virginradio.android
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Entertainment
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- www.virginradio.co.uk
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $809/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth7,650 ratings+3% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (1 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
LIVE AND LOUD: Do you wake up with Chris Evans? Maybe you have lunch with Emma B? Or even head home with Ben Jones? Whoever your favourite is, you can listen to them all live!
GREAT MUSIC ALL DAY: 90s, 00s and bangers! Virgin Radio brings you the greatest tunes all day long. Take a look through our schedule or listen back to anything you missed.
PODCASTS: Hear even more from Chris Evans, check out Spooning with Mark Wogan, get the best of Virgin Radio Pride on Pridecast or enjoy one of Virgin Radio’s other great podcasts. Take your pick!… View full description on the official store →
GREAT MUSIC ALL DAY: 90s, 00s and bangers! Virgin Radio brings you the greatest tunes all day long. Take a look through our schedule or listen back to anything you missed.
PODCASTS: Hear even more from Chris Evans, check out Spooning with Mark Wogan, get the best of Virgin Radio Pride on Pridecast or enjoy one of Virgin Radio’s other great podcasts. Take your pick!… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v56.4.0.44246🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Entertainment💰 Free📺 Ad-supported
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Tech & Domain Intel — virginradio.co.uk
- Tech stack
- Google Workspace · Atlassian (Jira/Confluence) · Meta (Facebook) Ads
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why medium confidence: 7,650 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live earns approximately $808/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live?▴
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Who makes Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live?▴
Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live is published by News Corp UK & Ireland Limited on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live's BU Score?▴
Virgin Radio UK - Listen Live has a BU Score of 65/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.