Tiscali users get a customized version of Mercora’s award winning music service, enabling them to join the largest user-contributed music network in the world
April 26, 2006 (Press Release) --
Cagliari, Italy & Santa Clara, CA - Tiscali S.p.A and Mercora Inc. today announced an agreement whereby Tiscali will launch a beta version of Tiscali Free JukeBox that brings Mercora’s innovative music sharing capability to Tiscali users. As a result, Tiscali users get the ability to search, find, and listen to any music broadcasting on the world’s largest user-contributed radio network. Users can also broadcast their own collection of music to others on the network, as well as browse and listen to their friends’ music collections. Users can download Tiscali Free JukeBox client from their respective site in Italy http://jukebox.tiscali.it, and UK http://jukebox.tiscali.co.uk.
Mario Mariani, senior vice president, Media and VAS, Tiscali, comments: “With this new service, Tiscali Free JukeBox, we have renewed our efforts to provide European Internet users with access to an innovative, legal online music service. This venture with Mercora will bring us one step forward in legitimizing the Internet as an immense resource at the service of the music industry.”
Tiscali Free JukeBox
Tiscali Free JukeBox provides Tiscali users with a customized music experience with the following unique capabilities:
• Localized user experience, including translated user interface and conformance with individual territory copyright laws
• Access to the world’s largest user-contributed music catalog with the ability to search, find, and listen to any music from others on this network
• Ability to browse and listen to music residing on your friends’ music library
• An immersive social networking experience revolving around music
• Single sign-on experience for Tiscali users using their current Tiscali identity
An Immersive Music Experience
Mercora’s user-contributed network, where individuals legally webcast their own collections of music in CD quality sound to others on the network, has grown into the largest catalog of music on the Internet with over 3 million unique tracks and over 100,000 channels of music available at any time. The average Mercora user login session is over three hours and twenty minutes and the average time spent listening to music using Mercora is 43 minutes per day.
“We are extremely happy to partner with Tiscali to provide Tiscali Free JukeBox,” said Srivats Sampath, president and CEO of Mercora. “We’ve seen that the musical experience on Mercora is a global phenomenon that is immersive, contagious and social.”
Pricing and Availability
Tiscali Free JukeBox is currently available in beta version for Tiscali’s Italian and UK users. The product is provided free of charge to consumers.
Mario Mariani, senior vice president, Media and VAS, Tiscali, comments: “With this new service, Tiscali Free JukeBox, we have renewed our efforts to provide European Internet users with access to an innovative, legal online music service. This venture with Mercora will bring us one step forward in legitimizing the Internet as an immense resource at the service of the music industry.”
Tiscali Free JukeBox
Tiscali Free JukeBox provides Tiscali users with a customized music experience with the following unique capabilities:
• Localized user experience, including translated user interface and conformance with individual territory copyright laws
• Access to the world’s largest user-contributed music catalog with the ability to search, find, and listen to any music from others on this network
• Ability to browse and listen to music residing on your friends’ music library
• An immersive social networking experience revolving around music
• Single sign-on experience for Tiscali users using their current Tiscali identity
An Immersive Music Experience
Mercora’s user-contributed network, where individuals legally webcast their own collections of music in CD quality sound to others on the network, has grown into the largest catalog of music on the Internet with over 3 million unique tracks and over 100,000 channels of music available at any time. The average Mercora user login session is over three hours and twenty minutes and the average time spent listening to music using Mercora is 43 minutes per day.
“We are extremely happy to partner with Tiscali to provide Tiscali Free JukeBox,” said Srivats Sampath, president and CEO of Mercora. “We’ve seen that the musical experience on Mercora is a global phenomenon that is immersive, contagious and social.”
Pricing and Availability
Tiscali Free JukeBox is currently available in beta version for Tiscali’s Italian and UK users. The product is provided free of charge to consumers.
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