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Billboard FutureSound Innovators Finalists Announced
November 05, 2012 | By Glenn Peoples, Nashville
The next digital-music disruption could come from one of the five finalists in the Innovators Showcase at Billboard's upcoming FutureSound conference.
Getmixxd, Playground.fm, Swarm.fm, Tixie and Tunezy were chosen from a group of 67 nominees to pitch their product or service to a panel of music technology experts at the conference, which takes place November 15 and 16 in San Francisco. Eligible companies had to be pre-revenue with a working prototype or product demo to display.
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The finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their product/service onstage to a group of judges and receive a dedicated exhibit table for the duration of the event, with one being named the winner. All other applicants that register for the conference will have the opportunity to get a free display table in a special Innovators Showcase section of the conference exhibit area.
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The five finalists are:
- GetMixxd is a service that allows people to send an online postcard that plays music. The service uses a proprietary algorithm that utilizes song lyrics, message text and Facebook likes to provide relevant songs for each postcard. Each card has a space for
advertising that can be geo-targeted.
- Playground.fm is an iPhone app that learns about a user's musical tastes -- by analyzing listening trends on iPhone, Spotify, Rdio and more -- and recommends playlists other Playground users have created. The app taps into Spotify premium accounts.
- Swarm.fm is a music discovery tool that aggregates information and content from across the web. It recommends new releases by new and familiar artists, shows friends' recent listening activity and reveals which artists your friends have recently discovered. The service is currently available only as a Spotify app. Other platforms are coming soon.
- Tixie is a website and iPhone app for buying or playing to win tickets to live events. Users bid on shows they want to see with their daily allotment of daily tokens; winners receive two tickets to the show. The service currently has shows in 8 markets including San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas and Atlanta.
- Tunezy is a music discovery and commerce platform. Musicians can list an unlimited number of merchandise items and experiences for sale for $5 per month. Fans can browse the platform and get recommendations based on the artists they follow on YouTube and Twitter.
The judges for the Showcase competition are:
- Larry Marcus, Managing Director, Walden VC
- David Kusak, Founder, Digital Cowboys
- Brian Zisk, Founder, SFMusicTech
- Yi Ping Ho, Senior Dir. Digital Strategy & Business Development, Warner
Music Group
- Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic
The five finalists were chosen from 67 nominees that span the music industry, from web creative and web design to on-site distribution of live concert recordings. Here's a list of all the nominees.
12South Music
aioTV
AIX Records/iTrax
Artisthead Music, LLC.
AudioAnywhere
Audiosocket
BeatSwitch
BeeFM
Boom Labs Inc
Broadplay
CratePlayer
Creative Power LLC
CrowdNoize
Digiteka
Emerging Icons
Evergig
Exposed Vocals
FameTube
FanAxcess
Get My Band
GetMixxd
Global Traxxtion Inc.
Hear It Local
hearo.fm
I Love This Music
Immitter.com
IndieOn65
iPluggers
Kollabo
LessThan3
LiveCut
LiveFi
Livetune Ltd
Loudpass
Mashup Media Inc.
Migratory Music, LLC
Monster Vox
MoodSnap
Mowgli
MP4SLS Private Limited
Muzieo Media inc.
Playground Sessions
Playground.fm
Playmysong
Presskit.to - by Indie Ambassador
Pulselocker, Inc.
Realizing Entertainment As Life
RewinderLive
Rockrena, Inc.
Soniqplay
Soundtrack Loops
Split Sheetz, LLC
StoryAmp, LLC
Swarm.fm
T.E.-Art-show
The Backscratchers
The Scorpio Collective
Tixie
Tomahawk
TuneSpring
Tunezy
Tutti Dynamics Inc.
Vintess Innovation Entertainment
vivogig
Yoink Technologies, Inc.
Ziibra, Inc.