"Name that tune" app Shazam has indexed over one billion songs

Published by Ewan Spence at 20:35 UTC, May 18th 2010

The Shazam application is becoming more visible in Symbian, what with over a million downloads through the Ovi Store, and preloaded onto a number of Symbian devices either out of the box (5630) or through the firmware update (the 5800) and it’s paying off for the company. The “what is that tune I can hear” application has now indexed over one billion songs, and the user base is 75 million.

Based in London, the company that launched in 2002 marched into profitability in Q4 last year and EO Andrew Fisher is looking forward to a 100 million strong user base before the end of 2010. So when people wonder where the money is in any Web 2.0 service, here’s a great example of pairing a problem (what is that tune?) with both the answer and an ancillary service (it was “Wild Dances” by Ruslana, would you like to buy it now?) to make a successful company.

Congratulations to the whole team – and if you want to have a look at it yourself, head over to the Ovi Store.

News Discussion

Full thread: 4 Comments / Post New Comment