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Mobile meets the jukebox
Tim Green Apr 11 2008, 11:56am
LocaModa and TouchTunes have combined to let mobile users interact with jukeboxes.
The two companies will introduce applications that relay information about the music playing, support user generated content and the uploading of photos via social network profiles. Online users will be able to see who has “fanned” the location, who is actually there, what music is currently playing, and they can even “gift” songs to friends at that location.
Art Matin, CEO of jukebox specialist TouchTunes, said, “LocaModa’s platform enables our jukeboxes to be the new media intersection of entertainment, digital out-of-home, Web and mobile. With LocaModa, we give our customers the ability to interact using their mobile phones, and we extend our reach to new audiences via social networks.
It’s clear that richer, wider and more measurable interactive user engagement will help monetize new advertising channels for TouchTunes and our operators.”
LocaModa runs a social platform that connects people in bars, cafes, colleges, public spaces and conferences. TouchTunes provides interactive entertainment systems to over 30,000 bars, restaurants, retailers and other businesses in North America. It introduced digital downloading, pay-per-play commercial jukeboxes in 1998 and now plays about 1.5 million songs per day.
