Shazam

Awards

2016: Music

2014: Top 50, Music, U.K.

Fast Company

Now That Shazam Has Your Ear, It Wants Your Eyes, Too

The app is expanding beyond music to make TV watching a more interactive experience.

Fast Company

Shazam’s iPhone App Automatically Hears And IDs Sounds You Might Miss

Shazam has updated its iPhone app to let it listen all the time, IDing music you hear on the move or on TV.

Fast Company

MTV Just Launched A Shazam Competitor

The new MTV Artists app for iOS instantly identifies songs… and launches music videos and purchases concert tickets.

Fast Company

Use Shazam To Vote For Your Favorite X Factor Contestants

The music-tagging app with designs on TV just hit the big time.

Fast Company

Sound Search, Vignettes, and YouTube: Google Glass Gets An Update

With Sound Search, Google eyes a sector currently dominated by Shazam. There are a few other updates, too.

Fast Company

Shazam Music ID App Gets $40 Million To Boost Its TV Integration

Music ID/discovery app Shazam has raised a $40 million investment from América Móvil to increase its TV integration, and will also get pre-loaded onto some Latin American phones.

Fast Company

A New Shazam Tool Tells Advertisers When Ads Are Most Effective

The Shazam Engagement Rate analyzes viewers’ engagement with ads in Shazam to reflect which campaigns perform the best, on which channels, and at what time of day.

Fast Company

See a Music Channel Challenge Shazam In A Different Kind Of Epic Rap Battle

French music channel Trace apparently subscribes to the idea that in order to be the man, you’ve got to beat the man. And by man, we mean machine.

Fast Company

Google Now Introduces Automatic Boarding Passes, Barcode Scanning, Song ID, And More

The new updates add even more personal, contextualized touches to Google Now, which is rapidly becoming Android’s Swiss Army knife.

Fast Company

Why HBO, NBC, and Comcast Are Betting On A Startup To Power Their Second Screens

Mobile devices are moving audiences and advertisers away from the television set. But can they also help bring them back? Zeebox’s second-screen solution makes live programming more fun and potentially more profitable.

Ideas

How Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel” Plans To Convert Viewers Into Activists

Ideas

This Map Shows Where People’s “Civic Space” Is Most Threatened

Ideas

Why IBM Pays Its Employees To Take Time Off To Tackle The World’s Problems

Entertainment

This Chrome Extension Makes Every Trump Tweet A Little More Honest

Entertainment

UPDATED: “Sex And The City” Star Mario Cantone Graciously Volunteered To Be SNL’s Anthony Scaramucci–And Now He Never Will Be

Entertainment

Inside The Dumbest First Amendment Battle Of 2017

Co.Design

Spaces

Donald Trump’s Drawing Is Even Worse Than You Think

Spaces

This Skatepark Is A Sculpture You Can Ride

Cities

This Crowdsourced Project Is Mapping Mysterious Photos Of Lost New York

Fast Company

Technology

Trump Takes Victory Lap On Foxconn’s Plans For New US Factory

Technology

Facebook’s Rumored Smart Speaker Is A Great And Terrible Idea

Ideas

Shazam

Stories about Shazam

Now That Shazam Has Your Ear, It Wants Your Eyes, Too

The app is expanding beyond music to make TV watching a more interactive experience.

Shazam’s iPhone App Automatically Hears And IDs Sounds You Might Miss

Shazam has updated its iPhone app to let it listen all the time, IDing music you hear on the move or on TV.

MTV Just Launched A Shazam Competitor

The new MTV Artists app for iOS instantly identifies songs… and launches music videos and purchases concert tickets.

Use Shazam To Vote For Your Favorite X Factor Contestants

The music-tagging app with designs on TV just hit the big time.

Sound Search, Vignettes, and YouTube: Google Glass Gets An Update

With Sound Search, Google eyes a sector currently dominated by Shazam. There are a few other updates, too.

Shazam Music ID App Gets $40 Million To Boost Its TV Integration

Music ID/discovery app Shazam has raised a $40 million investment from América Móvil to increase its TV integration, and will also get pre-loaded onto some Latin American phones.

A New Shazam Tool Tells Advertisers When Ads Are Most Effective

The Shazam Engagement Rate analyzes viewers’ engagement with ads in Shazam to reflect which campaigns perform the best, on which channels, and at what time of day.

See a Music Channel Challenge Shazam In A Different Kind Of Epic Rap Battle

French music channel Trace apparently subscribes to the idea that in order to be the man, you’ve got to beat the man. And by man, we mean machine.

Google Now Introduces Automatic Boarding Passes, Barcode Scanning, Song ID, And More

The new updates add even more personal, contextualized touches to Google Now, which is rapidly becoming Android’s Swiss Army knife.

Why HBO, NBC, and Comcast Are Betting On A Startup To Power Their Second Screens

Mobile devices are moving audiences and advertisers away from the television set. But can they also help bring them back? Zeebox’s second-screen solution makes live programming more fun and potentially more profitable.

Ideas

How Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel” Plans To Convert Viewers Into Activists

This Map Shows Where People’s “Civic Space” Is Most Threatened

Why IBM Pays Its Employees To Take Time Off To Tackle The World’s Problems

Entertainment

This Chrome Extension Makes Every Trump Tweet A Little More Honest

UPDATED: “Sex And The City” Star Mario Cantone Graciously Volunteered To Be SNL’s Anthony Scaramucci–And Now He Never Will Be

Inside The Dumbest First Amendment Battle Of 2017

Co.Design

Donald Trump’s Drawing Is Even Worse Than You Think

This Skatepark Is A Sculpture You Can Ride

This Crowdsourced Project Is Mapping Mysterious Photos Of Lost New York

Fast Company

Trump Takes Victory Lap On Foxconn’s Plans For New US Factory

Facebook’s Rumored Smart Speaker Is A Great And Terrible Idea

How Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel” Plans To Convert Viewers Into Activists