{"id":15134391,"date":"2026-06-02T19:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/audible-is-gamifying-your-audiobook-habit-with-perks-that-are-actually-worth-earning\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:11:21","slug":"audible-is-gamifying-your-audiobook-habit-with-perks-that-are-actually-worth-earning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/audible-is-gamifying-your-audiobook-habit-with-perks-that-are-actually-worth-earning\/","title":{"rendered":"Audible is gamifying your audiobook habit with perks that are actually worth earning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3649584 noname aa-img\" title=\"Audible App\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Audible-App-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A Pixel phone displays the Audible app.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" data-attachment-id=\"3649584\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"aa-img-source-credit\">\n<div class=\"aa-img-source-and-credit full\">\n<div class=\"aa-img-credit text-right\"><span>Credit: <\/span>Kaitlyn Cimino \/ Android Authority<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aa_tldr_text\" style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;padding: 10px\"><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Audible Rewards is rolling out in the US for Standard and Premium members.<\/li>\n<li>The program offers discount rewards, referral credits, anniversary gifts, and credit promos.<\/li>\n<li>It also adds gamified listening challenges, tier status, and achievement badges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>Audible spent years as the audiobook service for people who were happy to buy into a fairly specific model of paying a monthly fee that included a free credit each month. Earlier this year, it made a play for more casual listeners with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/audible-standard-plan-cheaper-easier-3648181\/\">cheaper Standard plan<\/a>, which lowers the monthly price but drops the idea that every book needs to be yours forever. Now Audible is adding another mainstream-friendly hook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from <em>Android Authority<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/audible-rewards-launched-3673564\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tech &#8211; Android Authority<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audible Rewards introduces badges that might make you roll your eyes, but the discounts are genuinely worth having.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15134393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15134391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1.jpg",2560,1440,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-620x349.jpg",620,349,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-768x432.jpg",768,432,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-940x529.jpg",940,529,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-2048x1152.jpg",2048,1152,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-1340x894.jpg",1340,894,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15134391-audible-app-scaled-1-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/tech\/android\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Android<\/a>","tag_info":"Android","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15134391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15134392,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15134391\/revisions\/15134392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15134393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15134391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15134391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15134391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}