Tag: discovery

FeedForward are looking for a Senior B2B SaaS Business Development Manager for their Figaro music search and discovery products for the music, media and gaming industries. You will lead business development at an exciting...

Research firm MRC Data has published its latest report, 2021 US Music 360, which explores some of the music listening trends in that market from the year so far.

Spotify already has a feature suggesting songs that might fit with a user’s playlist, to speed up the process of creating them. The streaming service clearly sees potential for improvement though, as its involvement...

"I think we have the opportunity to be a billion-dollar company if we attack all verticals..." For a startup with just two full-time employees and AU$500k (around $386k) in funding so far, setting sights on a 10-digit...

Deezer has given its homepage a refresh, with more discovery features. Besides its existing ‘Flow’ feature of music recommendations, the Deezer home screen will now also feature channels spotlighting a mixture of playlists,...

British startup Lost Music launched its music-discovery app quietly earlier this year before SXSW. Now it’s getting less stealthy, announcing a new “curators” section populated by 21 British music blogs and media,...

When SoundCloud Go launched earlier this year, the streaming service said its 125m tracks were a big competitive advantage. Yet they also presented a big challenge in how listeners would find their way to the needles in...

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist has been a hit with listeners – and, so it seems, with rivals. The upcoming Apple Music redesign includes a new playlist called ‘Discovery Mix’ which is thought to be a similarly-algorithmic...

Wonder.fm was the music discovery site launched in 2014 by former We Are Hunted co-founder Stephen Phillips, as his post-Twitter-#Music project. This February, under the wing of startup Hydric Media, it relaunched as three...

“It’s really helped – both externally and even internally to be honest – to dispel the myth that discovery is a niche thing. A tastemaker thing.” The speaker is Matt Ogle and the ‘it’ is Discover Weekly,...

What is Mixcloud in 2015? It’s a streaming-audio service with 12m monthly listeners, 1m of whom are uploading DJ sets and radio shows to swell a catalogue that’s already 8m shows strong. It’s a company growing beyond...

Music videos service Vevo has had its Lift initiative to promote new artists for some time now, but it focuses on a single artist at a time.