It’s no shocker that all of us at SoundCtrl are in love with Turntable.fm and look forward to our event next week with co-founder Seth Goldstein. When I found out Goldstein and his co-founder Billy Chasen would be revealing their iPhone app at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Fran, I booked a trip out west.
As you can see below in my iPhone screenshot, the app is clean and fairly similar to the web version.
Playing around, there was some lag time in loading as well as a few crashes, but no one gets an app completely perfect on the first go around. I expect an update within the next few months.
However, the programming was dubbed, “Founder Stories with Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen, Turntable.fm”, so in conjunction with their app announcement it was great to hear about how they started and where they’re headed. Goldstein is fairly confident that, in addition to affiliates sales, that they will be able to monetize the service by allowing brands, companies, and individuals to sponsor rooms, so don’t be surprised if there’s a Red Bull or Converse presents branded room coming soon.
However, the most fascinating part of their talk was to hear some of their analytics:
- 300,000 rooms
- 1,000,000 song streams a day
- 600,000 registered users (40% active users)
- before limiting access to only the US, 30% of the users were from Japan and 10% from Brazil
Whether you’re a fan or not of Turntable.fm, social listening won’t be going anywhere anytime soon as it’s the next step in the evolution in online music consumption. Funny enough, one of the companies in the Startup Alley that I spoke to was Lets Listen, which has the interface of Google Music Beta, but with the social aspects of Turntable.fm. Expect an interview next week…
Turntable.fm reveals new iPhone app at TechCrunch Disrupt
0It’s no shocker that all of us at SoundCtrl are in love with Turntable.fm and look forward to our event next week with co-founder Seth Goldstein. When I found out Goldstein and his co-founder Billy Chasen would be revealing their iPhone app at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Fran, I booked a trip out west.
As you can see below in my iPhone screenshot, the app is clean and fairly similar to the web version.
Playing around, there was some lag time in loading as well as a few crashes, but no one gets an app completely perfect on the first go around. I expect an update within the next few months.
However, the programming was dubbed, “Founder Stories with Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen, Turntable.fm”, so in conjunction with their app announcement it was great to hear about how they started and where they’re headed. Goldstein is fairly confident that, in addition to affiliates sales, that they will be able to monetize the service by allowing brands, companies, and individuals to sponsor rooms, so don’t be surprised if there’s a Red Bull or Converse presents branded room coming soon.
However, the most fascinating part of their talk was to hear some of their analytics:
Whether you’re a fan or not of Turntable.fm, social listening won’t be going anywhere anytime soon as it’s the next step in the evolution in online music consumption. Funny enough, one of the companies in the Startup Alley that I spoke to was Lets Listen, which has the interface of Google Music Beta, but with the social aspects of Turntable.fm. Expect an interview next week…
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