We Are Hunted
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| Subsidiary of Twitter | |
| Industry |
Music Internet |
| Founded | April 2009- April 2013 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
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Key people
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Stephen Phillips, Founder/CTO Richard Slatter, Founder/COO Michael Doherty, Engineer Adrian McLean, Designer/Editor Ben Novakovic, Engineer |
| Products | Online music aggregation |
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Number of employees
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10 |
| Website | wearehunted.com |
Stephen Phillips, Founder/CTO Richard Slatter, Founder/COO Michael Doherty, Engineer Adrian McLean, Designer/Editor
We Are Hunted was a Brisbane based software company that developed proprietary search technology which continuously scanned the Internet to identify the hottest new music in the world. The company was founded by Stephen Phillips, Richard Slatter and Michael Doherty.
The service provided a constant stream of new music, delivered in a simple, tile-based user interface.
We Are Hunted was originally owned and operated by Hunted Media, a web services company based in San Francisco, California. In late 2012, Twitter acquired the company, announcing plans to turn the platform into a new product called Twitter Music in early 2013.
We Are Hunted is best known for its emerging music chart. The chart provides a continually updated list of the best new songs in the world today, as measured by popularity on music blogs and social media. We Are Hunted also charts the most popular mainstream and top 40 artists in the world, and publishes music charts in a range of genres from Electronic to Metal.
The We Are Hunted service is powered by a proprietary software system. The platform enables data aggregation, machine learning and content recommendation services. The system generates the music charts, powers the dynamic playlists, and delivers detailed analytics and reporting. The platform indexes approximately 100,000 music articles and 40 million music related tweets each month. It actively monitors YouTube and the Facebook graph for artist activity. The service uses an open source stack including Linux, Apache, Nginx, Python, Sphinx, Postgres, Django, Redis, Twisted, and more.
The core team responsible for the development of We Are Hunted is led by Stephen Phillips and Richard Slatter and includes, Michael Doherty, Adrian McLean, and Ben Novakovic. Several other people have contributed greatly to the development of the service including Genevieve Robey, Russell Keith-Magee, David Novakovic, Mitch Malone, Nathan Oorloff, Jack Murphy, Ryan Blunden, Tom Knox, Eoin McCarthy, Simon Litchfield and the team at Josephmark.
The company is backed by Graeme Wood, the successful Australian Internet entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Hunted Media provides fee for service web and mobile development services to support the ongoing development of the We Are Hunted service. The Hunted Media team has established a reputation in the digital music industry as an app development powerhouse working with companies like MySpace, MTV, Sony, eMusic, SiriusXM, Condé Nast and The Echonest.
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