Private | |
Industry | Mobile ticketing |
Founded | 2014London, United Kingdom | in
Founders | Phil Hutcheon, ustwo |
Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
Website | dice |
DICE is a live music discovery and mobile ticketing platform co-founded by Phil Hutcheon and digital product studio ustwo in London, United Kingdom in 2014. DICE allows users to search for, browse and buy tickets to a curated selection of music gigs, concerts and festivals. DICE is available to both iOS and Android users and is currently live across various cities in the United Kingdom and Ireland including London, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Brighton, Leeds, Newcastle, Birmingham, Glasgow and Dublin.
DICE was named as one of the Guardian’s best apps of the year in 2014, and one of the App Store Apps of the Year in 2015.
In the 2016 Music Week Awards, DICE was awarded Best Ticketing Company.
Phil Hutcheon and digital product studio ustwo co-founded DICE in 2014. Prior to DICE, Hutcheon spent over 10 years working in the music industry running Modular Recordings and latterly his own record label, management and events company Deadly People. ustwo is an independent digital product studio based in London, New York, Malmö and Sydney. ustwo works with global brands on a variety of projects ranging from apps to interfaces, and also builds its own products such as the escher-inspired Monument Valley game which won two BAFTAs, an Apple Design Award and Apple’s Best Game of 2014. ustwo was co-founded by John Sinclair (known as Sinx) and Matt Miller (known as Mills), both of whom have active roles within DICE.
Hutcheon had the original idea to create a ticketing platform that would put fans and artist first. After 10 months of research, Hutcheon, Mills and Sinx partnered equally on the venture, bringing together a team and funding the business themselves for the first version of the DICE app.
The company shares studio space with ustwo in their offices at the Tea Building in Shoreditch, London.