Tag: messaging

Research firm eMarketer has published its latest analysis of the mobile messaging market, claiming that in 2016, messaging apps will be used by 149 million people in western Europe. It claims almost a fifth (so just under...

In the west we know Tencent best for its WeChat / Weixin messaging app, although the Chinese company is also heavily involved in the digital music space in its homeland. Now it has invested in another kind of app: Q&A...

We’ve seen a few official artist sticker packs for Apple’s newly-opened-up iMessage app on iOS. Now Warner Music Group has launched the most high-profile example yet: David Bowie. Available as a free download, the...

2016 in a nutshell? Try Martini’s latest digital marketing campaign, which involves a Facebook Messenger DJ chatbot. “A DJ chatbot asks social media users on Facebook to sum up their summer using emojis… to create...

There’s no break in the flow of apps exploring how music can be shared through messaging, with Spinlist Song Share the latest. It’s the work of US startup Spinlist, which already has a separate app available for people...

After a slow start, the iMessage extensions are starting to flow for digital music services on Apple’s iOS devices. Pandora’s latest app update includes a component for Apple’s messaging app. It enables listeners to...

One of the features in Apple’s latest iOS 10 software is the ability to make apps (and animated stickers) for its iMessage messaging service. Now someone’s made an iMessage app for friends to create collaborative ‘mixtapes’. The...

Sequel is one of the startups hoping to turn messaging chatbots into a business: it describes itself as a “conversational media specialist”. Its latest conversations are taking place on an unofficial ‘JustinBieberBot’,...

The first chatbots were developed in the 1960s, long before smartphones and messaging apps had the world’s eyeballs transfixed. This isn’t a new technology, but it’s certainly a hot one in 2016 thanks to Facebook,...

Messaging firm Line made a series of announcements yesterday showing its latest technology bets. First, the company wants more developers to create chatbots for its main app. It’s creating a new messaging API and software...

In our recent interview with Ticketmaster’s Ismail Elshareef, he enthused about the potential for chatbots focusing on live music recommendation. Now one of them has emerged into the wild. It’s called Karl, and he’s...

Warner Music Group has become one of the first labels to release ‘sticker packs’ for the new version of Apple’s iMessage messaging app. WMG has released four packs as free downloads from the iMessage App Store: for...