Stephen Phillips used to be the boss of We Are Hunted, becoming a tech lead on Twitter #Music after the social network bought his startup. This week, he published a […]
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We Are Hunted co-founder on Twitter #Music: ‘We can’t call it a failure…’
After much launch excitement, the Twitter #Music app has fallen steadily down the App Store charts in recent weeks, provoking catcalls that it’s been a big flop.
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Twitter #music app finally available to all
After a week of speculation, Twitter finally launched its new music discovery app yesterday for iPhone and as a website.
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Twitter + We Are Hunted + SoundCloud + Vevo = A new face for music discovery?
Cat, meet pigeons. Twitter not only quietly acquired music discovery service We Are Hunted last year, according to several reports yesterday, but it’s preparing to release a standalone Twitter Music app on iOS that will stream songs from SoundCloud and videos from Vevo for music fans.
There are a lot of implications to process. Details first: although neither Twitter nor We Are Hunted have yet confirmed the reports. CNET broke the story, claiming that “Twitter Music suggests artists and songs to listen to based on a variety of signals, and is personalized based on which accounts a user follows on Twitter.”
The story claimed the app will have four main tabs: Suggested to recommend songs based on the artists and users you follow; #NowPlaying for songs tweeted by people you follow using that hashtag; Popular for trending tracks; and Emerging for up-and-coming artists.
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We Are Hunted reveals Spotify app stats
“Traffic wise the numbers have ranged between 600k to 1.2M users a month,” says CTO Stephen Phillips. “One metric that surprised me a lot is the ‘time in app’ we see from our Spotify App. The average user spends nearly four hours per session using our app. That is an incredible number.”
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We Are Hunted reveals Spotify app stats
“Traffic wise the numbers have ranged between 600k to 1.2M users a month,” says CTO Stephen Phillips. “One metric that surprised me a lot is the ‘time in app’ we see from our Spotify App. The average user spends nearly four hours per session using our app. That is an incredible number.”
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Digital Marketing roundup 07/06/12
Here you’ll find today’s (07/06/12) Digital Marketing roundup…
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We Are Hunted creates MySpace buzz radio app
Australian startup We Are Hunted has had another nifty idea. It’s created a radio application that pulls in data from MySpace’s Real Time Stream API, and uses it to calculate the most popular song being played on the social network every 60 seconds.
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We Are Hunted gets an official Android app
Music discovery service We Are Hunted has launched its official Android app. The app went live in Google’s Android Market overnight, with a simple description: “Visually driven, intuitive and simple, We Are Hunted seeks to be a daily destination for music lovers looking to discover their next favourite artist.” …
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We Are Hunted rejigs Pocket Hipster app with a Popstar focus
The screenshots for new iPhone app Pocket Popstar may look familiar – an avatar on-screen recommending music. That’s because it’s effectively the same idea as Pocket Hipster, an app launched by We Are Hunted earlier this year using The Echo Nest’s APIs…
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SuperSonic is the latest iPhone music discovery app from We Are Hunted
Music firm We Are Hunted is ramping up its app development business fast, releasing its third music discovery app this weekend, following previous apps Pocket Hipster and Music Hunter.
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What newspapers can learn from the music industry
We Are Hunted co-founder Nick Crocker has penned an opinion piece for Mashable on “4 Things Old Media Can Learn From the Music Industry’s Last Decade”.