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Shazam behind 1 in 14 of all music downloads

Published on Friday, May 17th by Hans Cett

Meanwhile iTunes reaches 50 billion app downloads

Figures just released by Apple show that its App Store has now reached its 50 billionth app download. That figure represents unique downloads excluding re-downloads and updates. The winner of a $10,000 App Store gift card Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, USA. He downloaded Say the Same Thing by Space Inch from here. But ITunes is about more than apps – it’s music too. As Shazam points out, it was behind the 25 billionth Apple music download back in February 2013. Continue reading →

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Apple’s App Store marks historic 50 billionth download

Published on Friday, May 17th by Submit Release

Press release

May 16th 2013. Apple has announced that customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps1 from the revolutionary App Store. Customers are downloading more than 800 apps per second at a rate of over two billion apps per month on the App Store. The 50 billionth app was Say the Same Thing by Space Inch which was downloaded by Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio USA who received a $10,000 App Store gift card to commemorate this historic milestone. Continue reading →

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Shazam forms exclusive new partnership with Saavn for the best Indian music Discovery Experience

Published on Wednesday, April 3rd by Submit Release

Bollywood’s massive and growing fan base now has a new way to discover, buy and share their favourite songs

Press release

April 3 rd 2013. Shazam, the world’s leading media engagement company, has announced an exclusive new partnership with Saavn, the world’s largest Indian music streaming service. The new partnership gives music fans a great new way to discover the latest tracks from their favourite South Asian artists in Bollywood and beyond, with popular genres such as bhangra, devotional, ghazals, Carnatic, Indipop, and more; and music in regional languages including Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, and Bhojpuri. Continue reading →

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Intel hooks up with ITV & Shazam for interactive ad

Published on Thursday, December 6th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Get ready to Shazamduring X Factor final

Here in Blighty (UK), it seems that Intel has been looking at some creative ways to promote its new range of Ultrabook Convertible tablets on the run up to Xmas. It just so happens that ITV has an exclusive partnership to distribute Shazam‘s functionality in UK broadcast advertising sector. So – thanks to OMD UK, a specially modified version of the Intel ad will be aired during the show which will be able to feature user-generated content (UGC) thanks to Shazam’s technology. Of course, this isn’t the first time the Shazam app has been deployed in British broadcasting. ITV aired a Shazam enabled ad back in May [2012] during a Britain’s Got Talent TV finale. (See our previous report here). Continue reading →

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Intel puts Ultrabook Xmas TV special ad in hands of consumers

Published on Thursday, December 6th by Submit Release

Intel, ITV Commercial and Shazam unveil new interactive Xmas TV ad

TV viewers given the chance to star in a specially adapted version of Intel’s ‘London Train’ ad by submitting festive messages to be live-edited during The X Factor final

The initiative marks an accelerated live edit and approval process for a TV advertising campaign

Press release

December London, 5th 2012 – Intel and ITV Commercial has announced a Xmas promotion to support the new range of Ultrabook Convertibles. The TV spot, to run on ITV1 on 8th December 2012, will culminate in a commercial featuring real-time user-generated content (UGC) submitted by viewers of ITV’s live The X Factor final. It will feature an accelerated edit and approval process for a TV advertising campaign to be seen in the UK and give viewers of The X Factor the chance to star in the specially adapted ad. Continue reading →

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Shazam launches Windows 8 version of it music discover app

Published on Monday, October 29th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Perhaps Jim’ll fix my RAZR i version for me

Somehow we don’t see a rush of desktop PC, laptop, netbook and tablets owners installing Shazam so they can hold their device up to a pub’s loudspeakers. Just because Shazam has launched a Microsoft Windows 8 version of its popular music discovery app. However, GoMobile News suspects this has a lot to do with its imminent Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) version. Shazam is, of course, the leading music recognition app but it only recognises commercial tracks. So there’s little point trying to get it to recognise what old rock number the band is currently slaughtering. We reckon that Windows 8 Users will utilise this version of Shazam for viewing tags saved by their mobile phone. If it works on their smartphone, of course. It doesn’t work on our Motorola RAZR i, though. Continue reading →

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Mobile firms do well in Tech Track 100 league

Published on Monday, September 24th by Hans Cett

Rating: Keep an eye on Mobilewebadz & Omnifone

Writing about the UK’s Top Twenty ‘cool’ brands today [24th September 2012], (see here) GoMobile News remembered that we hadn’t mentioned the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 league table which appeared on 16th September [2012]. Just like the CoolBrands survey, high tech companies which are mobile orientated in particular did really well. Two companies which definitely deserve a name check are Mobilewebadz (4th) and Omnifone (20th) which both secured high places. Continue reading →

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Shazam for TV- a clarification

Published on Tuesday, May 15th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Why things didn’t quite work as planned

Regular readers will know that GoMobile News recently reported on our inability to join in a quest for London Olympics tickets courtesy of Cadbury (see here). We were testing out the first ever airing of ‘Shazam-for-TV’. This technology enables anyone with a suitably equipped handset to ‘tag’ an advert being aired on TV. We questioned exactly what had gone wrong and have received the following clarification from Cadbury’s representatives below. It makes very interesting reading. Continue reading →

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ITV airs first 2 Shazam for TV ads on UK’s BGT Final show

Published on Monday, May 14th by Tony Dennis

Rating: We’re hoping this isn’t another no-actual-winners TV scandal

Billed as the UK’s first Shazam-enabled ads, UK broadcaster, ITV, aired two adverts during the Britain’s Got Talent Final show last Saturday [12th May 2012]. GoMobile News isn’t sure how other viewers fared but the technology didn’t quite work for us. There were two ads involved: – one from soft drinks supplier, Pepsi and the other from confectionary supplier, Cadbury. Our problems could have stemmed from the fact that we were using a Nokia Lumia 800 (W7 Mango) handset. Such users surely represent a tiny minority of the over 10 million Shazam users in the UK. Another clue is that in the promotional blurb, says, “Make sure you have the latest version of Shazam, for the fastest tagging experience!”. Continue reading →

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GoMo discovers Microsoft’s answer to Shazam

Published on Saturday, May 5th by Tony Dennis

Rating: ‘What song is this’ hidden away in Bing

We’re not quite sure why Microsoft hasn’t publicised it better but it turns out that there is a music recognition built into the W7 Mango Windows Phone OS. Microsoft’s answer to Shazam is integrated into the standard Bing search facility. An eagled-eyed reader spotted it and notified us of the relevant help page on the official Windows Phone site here. Naturally this being Microsoft, the whole facility is tied into Zune Marketplace. As with rival offerings this service only works with commercial music. If you’re trying to hum a tune which you can’t place, ‘What song is this?’ won’t help. Continue reading →

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How to personalise Mix Radio on your Nokia W7 Mango phone

Published on Friday, April 27th by Tony Dennis

Rating: GoMobile News finally gets this feature to work

Ever since GoMobile News bumped into an official ‘Nokia Trainer’ in Basingstoke for the Lumia W7 Mango range, we’ve been intrigued by its music facilities. He convinced us that there was a whole wealth of facilities buried deep inside the ‘Nokia Music’ hub which regular fans of W7 Mango never quite discover. We must have misunderstood because we could have sworn he claimed there was Nokia’s answer to the popular Shazam app built in, too. That would be the kind of app which listens and then identifies music tracks. We can find no such facility. However, we did manage to totally personalise the ‘Mix Radio’ feature – in the end. Continue reading →

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Shazam adds new features for iOS device owners

Published on Wednesday, January 11th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Shazam Player supports a whole host of new stuff

It seems that the popular music recognition app, Shazam, has now been improved for those with an iOS device in the USA or UK. This new version is known as Shazam Player and offers considerable new features. These include the ability to see streaming lyrics and watch YouTube videos of your favourite tracks and artists. Plus Shazam Player provides one of the best ways to order your own music collection. Continue reading →

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Shazam adds LyricPlay to iOS and Android but not BlackBerry

Published on Wednesday, November 16th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Although that may not be true in the USA

In an effort to bolster the popularity of its music recognition app, Shazam has just added extra functionality to the free version of its app. The facility – known as LyricPlay – allows the handset user to view lyrics in real-time as a recognised track is being played. The company saysthis  facility has now been added to of its free and paid apps on iPhone, iPod touch and Android-powered devices. It’s great – when you can get it to work. However, GoMo News is a little puzzled as to why this facility hasn’t been extended to other mobile OS. Especially the BlackBerry version? Is that because RIM has just released the previously paid-for Shazam Encore as part of its freeThank You gift apps, we wonder? Continue reading →

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The BlackBerry free app fiasco continues

Published on Monday, October 31st by Tony Dennis

Rating:Great PR disasters of our time No: 3

It looks like the RIM/BlackBerry Thank You gift programme is going to go down in the UK history books as a PR fiasco on par with Gerald Ratner calling his company’s jewellery “total crap” or Hoover’s free flight promotions promotion. The situation isn’t getting any better with GoMo News readers joining in the general rant of the wisdom of providing handset owners with free apps they don’t want in place of compensation for three days loss of email/internet usage. GoMo News continues to monitor the situation and is struck by the obvious lack of co-ordination behind the free apps campaign. Continue reading →

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RIM responds to app criticism

Published on Saturday, October 29th by Tony Dennis

Rating: More free apps appear including Shazam

RIM – maker of the BlackBerry handset – seems to have responded to pressure from the media – including GoMo News, naturally – and has started making more of its ‘Thank you gift’ apps available. It’s gone from two to four in a very short space of time. We had already revealed that the EA game Bejeweled had been added yesterday [October 28th 2011]. Now Shazam Encore – the app which we were waiting for – has suddenly made an appearance. It seems that RIM has done all of this in haste, however. Continue reading →

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