7digital
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| Public - : | |
| Industry | Music and Radio |
| Founded | January 2004 |
| Headquarters | 69 Wilson Street, London EC2A 2BB, London, United Kingdom |
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Number of locations
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5 |
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Area served
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85 countries |
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Key people
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Simon Cole, Pete Downton, Ed Kershaw, Paul Langworthy, Philippe Decottignies, Amy Wallace, Matt Honey, Kellie While |
| Services | download stores, white-label music solutions, API, production, streaming music services, radio services, voucher promotions, loyalty schemes |
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Number of employees
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125 |
| Subsidiaries | Entertainment News, Unique The Production Company, Smooth Operations, Unique Interactive, Above The Title |
| Website | Corporate Site |
7digital Group Plc is a publicly listed digital music and radio services platform. 7digital offers both B2B services for digital media partners as well as 7digital-branded direct-to-consumer (D2C) music download stores.
7digital's platform and API have been used to power digital music services for businesses like Guvera,Onkyo,Samsung,BlackBerry,HMV, musical.ly & Technics. 7digital's group companies Smooth Operations, Unique Production and Above The Title, produce independent content for broadcasters like BBC Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 3.
7digital music download stores are available globally and have major label catalogue in over 40 countries. They also have a mobile web-store, smartphone apps for Android, BlackBerry 10 devices, Firefox OS, Windows and iOS.
7digital was founded in January 2004 by Ben Drury and James Kane, as a B2B digital music services company, building music download stores for record labels, brands and other retailers. 7digital Direct to Consumer (D2C) service was launched in 2005.
7digital is backed by technology venture capital firm Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe). On January 28, 2008 7digital raised £4.25m in its series B investor round, securing investment from various groups including Sutton Place Managers. The investment was to be used to launch 7digital.com in more European countries and the United States, along with expanding the sites offerings to include downloadable video and computer games.
In September 2008 7digital.com was the first company in Europe to launch DRM-free MP3 downloads with all four major record labels.
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