Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Songkick http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Songkick Raises $10 Million From Sequoia Capital http://pulse2.com/2012/03/08/songkick-raises-10-million-from-sequoia-capital/ http://pulse2.com/2012/03/08/songkick-raises-10-million-from-sequoia-capital/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:28:36 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=57273 Continue reading →]]>
Songkick is an online service that alerts fans about local concerts by their favorite artists. The company launched in London around 2007. Songkick makes the idea of going to a concert as easy as looking up a restaurant on Yelp. About five million people visit Songkick per month and they have just received $10 million in funding from Sequoia Capital.

“The investment will allow us to keep doing what we’re doing, but faster. We created this idea of a historical concert archive with gigographies for every single artist. We released the most highly regarded concert app on iOS, which scans the music on your phone. We were the first concert-related service to launch on Spotify. And we launched this partner network. Those are sort of the Round 1 innovations. We’ve got a slew of cool new things coming out that I’m very excited about. We’re investing in product, in world class talent. It’s a cost for start-ups,” stated Songkick CEO Ian Hogarth in an interview with The New York Times.

]]> http://pulse2.com/2012/03/08/songkick-raises-10-million-from-sequoia-capital/feed/ 1 Foursquare’s New Feature Lets Users Check In at Events http://pulse2.com/2011/08/19/foursquares-new-feature-lets-users-check-in-at-events/ http://pulse2.com/2011/08/19/foursquares-new-feature-lets-users-check-in-at-events/#comments Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:01:02 +0000 Riley Kennysmith http://pulse2.com/?p=50301 Continue reading →]]>

Foursquare has been rolling out a bundle of new updates this month, from inline photos and tip lists to redesigned apps, and is now introducing yet another new feature: events. Users previously could only check in at places, but Foursquare is now adding major events to their database. They gave events a test-run during SXSW conferences and are now partnered with ESPN, MovieTickets.com and Songkick. The partnerships mean that when users go to check in on Foursquare, they’ll see official pages to check in at sports events, movies and concerts.

To keep the UI clean, they explain that “each event appears in the app a couple hours before it starts.” The feature is already available in the iPhone app and at the foursquare.com web app and will be available on other platforms soon. [image via Foursquare Blog]

]]> http://pulse2.com/2011/08/19/foursquares-new-feature-lets-users-check-in-at-events/feed/ 0 Concert Alert Service SongKick Raises $2 Million http://pulse2.com/2011/02/15/concert-alert-service-songkick-raises-2-million/ http://pulse2.com/2011/02/15/concert-alert-service-songkick-raises-2-million/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:57:57 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=43786 Continue reading →]]>
SongKick is a United Kingdom based company that has raised $1.8 million in their fourth round of funding according to an SEC filing. SongKick is aiming to build an IMDB-like service with a musical history for artists. SongKick also provides alerts, ticket sales, and APIs for other partner websites to display upcoming concert dates on artist pages. Vevo is one of SongKick’s biggest partners. SongKick has raised a total of $7.5 million. [ReadWriteWeb]

]]> http://pulse2.com/2011/02/15/concert-alert-service-songkick-raises-2-million/feed/ 0 Songkick Raises Around $1.1 Million To Help You Find Concerts http://pulse2.com/2008/06/27/songkick-raises-around-11-million-to-help-you-find-concerts/ http://pulse2.com/2008/06/27/songkick-raises-around-11-million-to-help-you-find-concerts/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:37:35 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=3811 Continue reading →]]> Songkick Logo
Songkick is a website that does everything to help you find concerts.  They can find concerts near you by having you entering your location.  They can e-mail you alerts when concerts come up.  They’ve got a plugin that helps you find concerts of the artists that you have in your iTunes, Winamp, iTunes, and Windows Media Player libraries.

“We’re always adding more listings because we want to make sure we have every single concert in existence—no matter how obscure the band or tiny the venue,” states the company’s About page. “We even index bands’ MySpace pages to make sure we have all their dates.”

Songkick is based in East London and was founded by Ian Hogarth, Pete Smith, and Michelle You.  The investment was provided by several personal investors.  One of the investors is Saul Klein, founding partner of The Accelerator Group.  Y-Combinator provided Songkick with their initial funding.

The company website is available at: www.songkick.com. VentureBeat broke the funding news.

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