TouchTunes Music Corp.
1280 Rose Road
Lake Zurich, IL 60089
(847) 419-3300
www.touchtunes.com
For Immediate Release
Art Matin, new president and CEO of digital-jukebox giant TouchTunes
Music Corporation, has sent a personal letter to the company’s 1,800
operator accounts, outlining the company’s direction for 2007.
“The coming year promises to be another exciting one for TouchTunes and our customers,” Matin wrote.
Among other developments, “We will begin shipping our revolutionary
Gen 3 technology in volume,” he said. “Initial results from our Gen 3
broadband locations are extremely promising, showing a marked increase
in total plays and revenues.”
Gen 3 is the unique new digital jukebox operating system TouchTunes
unveiled at the fall AMOA show. This industry-leading technology, when
teamed with a high-speed broadband connection, allows operators to
change, within seconds, the musical personality of a jukebox’s on-board
music library, a process TouchTunes calls “morphing.” It enables
patrons to download and use, on location at the jukebox, personal
playlists they create on the MyTouchTunes.com Web site. It also
provides a more intuitive user interface, among other revenue-boosting
features and conveniences.
Matin sees 2007 as “a year of significant investment in TouchTunes
as we will continue to add resources in tech support, research and
development, and customer training, among other areas.”
Having recently introduced himself to TouchTunes’ Operator Advisory
Board , Matin emphasized that the company is in “listen mode,”
incorporating feedback from “many, many operators” into plans for new
technology, customer service innovations, and “attractive new options
for acquiring our products.”
In his letter, Matin also thanked operators for their loyalty and trust.
“I look forward to a year of accelerated growth for all of us,” he said.
TouchTunes Music Corporation introduced the world’s first digital
downloading, coin-operated commercial jukebox in 1998. Today,
TouchTunes’ online network of 23,000 pay-per-play Internet jukeboxes in
bars, restaurants, and other establishments throughout North America is
the industry’s largest, representing a market share of more than 60
percent.
A privately held U.S. corporation, TouchTunes’ principal offices are
in Montreal, Canada, and Lake Zurich, Ill., a Chicago suburb. The
company is backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, one of the largest
venture capital firms in the world with offices in Silicon Valley, New
York, and Montreal. VantagePoint has over $4 billion in capital under
management, including a substantial portfolio of consumer-oriented
digital-media companies that complement TouchTunes’ growing leadership
in out-of-home, interactive entertainment.
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