Moodagent

Moodagent is a music streaming service that specializes in interactive playlists and personalized music recommendations. The Moodagent brand is developed and owned by the Danish company Moodagent A/S, which has proprietary methods for recognizing emotional and musical characteristics of individual tracks.[1]

Moodagent
Type of businessPrivate
HeadquartersCopenhagen, Denmark
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)
  • Peter Berg Steffensen
  • Mikael A. Henderson
Key peoplePeter Berg Steffensen/CIO
Mikael A. Henderson/CPO
IndustryMusic Streaming
ProductsPremium music streaming service, music recommendations, playlists, search, discovery and analytics
Employees+70
ParentMoodagent A/S
URLwww.moodagent.com
LaunchedSeptember 2001
Current statusActive

The patented technology behind Moodagent combines digital signal processing, machine learning, AI techniques, audio analysis and human musicology. Using this technology, Moodagent analyzes key characteristics in songs such as mood, emotion, genre, style, instrument, vocal, orchestration, production, and beat/tempo.[2]

History

Early development

Entrepreneurs and music enthusiasts Peter Berg Steffensen & Mikael A. Henderson founded Moodagent (then under the company name Syntonetic Media Solutions) in 2001 to create an intelligent system that reads the inherent musical and emotional characteristics of each individual track, and to string them together in playlists that matches the style, tempo and current mood of the listener.[3]

An international patent was granted for an automated sequential logic mechanism in 2004,[4] which would form the basis of the Moodagent playlisting technology developed in the following years.

First app release

The earliest incarnation of the Moodagent music mobile app was named Playlist DJ, developed specifically for Nokia phones and unveiled at Nokia World 2009.[5]

With the release of a version for Apple's iOS in December 2009,[6] the app was completely redesigned and renamed Moodagent.

New versions of Moodagent soon followed for other platforms: Android,[7] (July 2010), Symbian[8] (January 2011), Winamp[9] (January 2011), Intel AppUp[10] (April 2011), BlackBerry[11] (May 2011), WebOS[12] (the first version of Moodagent designed strictly for tablets, July 2011), Spotify[13] (November 2011), Windows Phone[14] (January 2012), Nokia Asha[15] (February 2014).

When Moodagent announced the discontinuation of all of their B2C offerings in December 2014, the Moodagent apps had been installed on more than 15 million mobile devices in 175 countries.[16]

The Moodagent music recommendation service preloaded with Winamp was downloaded more than 80 million times.[17]

Premium music streaming service

An official company press release was published in August 2019, announcing that the company was releasing a full premium music streaming service on September 19, 2019.[18]

Platforms

The Moodagent music streaming service is available as an app on iOS smartphones and iPods[19] and Android smartphones.[20]

Features

Within Moodagent’s app, users can create and share playlists and moodagents, the company’s namesake feature. Moodagents serve as an in-app music curator that generates interactive playlists. Moodagents can be created and initiated by using any of the app’s “mood sliders” which include happy, angry, sensual, tender and tempo. The sliders can be adjusted at any time, pulling in new music with every adjustment.[21]

Business Model

The Moodagent music streaming service operates under a premium subscription model.

Pricing

As of October 2019, Moodagent offers a premium-only subscription model for 99,00 DKR per month.[22]

Geographic Availability

Following the September 2019 launch the Moodagent music streaming service was released exclusively in Denmark, but the company has opened an office in India and established subsidiaries in Germany, Poland and Australia, with plans to enter 17 markets.[23]

Clients and Partnerships

From 2009 to 2014 Moodagent provided consumer faced products, including mobile apps for music playlists & recommendations (iOS, Android, Nokia Symbian^3 & S40, Blackberry, WebOS, Windows Phone).[24]

Moodagent was also included as an online music recommendation service in Winamp and among the first apps chosen for inclusion on Spotify's app platform.[25]

In 2014, Moodagent began focusing on delivering music data services on a B2B basis. Products included music metadata, tools for music recommendations, auto-generation of playlists & audio similarity search for clients including Sony Music, Universal Music Publishing Group, Mood Media, 7digital & TouchTunes.[26]

Several other partnerships were announced, including deliveries for Mood Media's Mood Mix[27] service and The Electric Jukebox Company.[28]

In September 2016 Moodagent announced a joint partnership with Unruly, Affectiva and Kent State University to bring end-to-end emotional intelligence to digital advertising.[29]

A partnership with the Danish Music Awards (DMA) was announced in September 2019.[30]

See also

References
  1. "Moodagent LinkedIn Profile".
  2. Node International, March 2011, Interview with Syntonetic CEO Peter Berg Steffensen,p.30
  3. "SF MusicTech Summit IX | SF MusicTech Summit". www.sfmusictech.com. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  4. Altschul, Jacob Falkentorp; Henderson, Mikael Altschul; Steffensen, Peter Berg (Sep 22, 2004), Automatic machine for production of sequences based on profiles as well as method for automatic production of sequences, retrieved 2016-09-15
  5. "Playlist DJ". Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  6. "Moodagent: Going iTunes Playlists one better". Engadget. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  7. "Moodagent and other top Android Apps of the Week | Appolicious iPhone and iPad apps". appolicious.com. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  8. "All About Symbian". Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  9. "Slick MoodAgent Builds Playlists to Suit Every Mood | Evolver.fm". Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  10. "ÜberGizmo-MoodAgent for Intel AppUp". Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  11. "ÜberGizmo - Moodagent Music App For BlackBerry". Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  12. "Dansk succes-app får fremtrædende plads i ny rost tablet - Mobil.nu" (in Danish). 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  13. Gilbert, Jason (2011-11-30). "This Is The Future Of Spotify". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  14. "Let your music match your mood! All About Windows Phone". Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  15. "Mood music for Nokia Asha 501: Moodagent launched". 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  16. "A Farewell to Apps". A Farewell to Apps. Retrieved 2016-09-15.
  17. "Moodagent, Online service for Winamp".
  18. "Moodagent introduces a new generation music streaming service. Press release. 23 aug. 2019" (PDF).
  19. "Moodagent Music Streaming". App Store. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
  20. "Moodagent Music Streaming - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
  21. Jacca-RouteNote (2019-09-09). "A new Danish streaming service wants to change how we listen to music". RouteNote Blog. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
  22. "Try Moodagent". Moodagent. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
  23. "Kapitalfond har store forventninger til musiktjeneste: "Kan blive en unicorn"". KapitalWatch (in Danish). Retrieved 2019-10-24.
  24. "Metro Canada, article by Alan Cross, May 27, 2011".
  25. "Spotify Apps API (Discontinued) - Spotify Developer". Archived from the original on 2012-05-10.
  26. "Moodagent - Empowering Music Discovery – Clients".
  27. "Moodagent powers the next generation of the Mood Mix streaming service".
  28. "Electric Jukebox And Moodagent To Help Lost Music Consumers Discover Music Streaming".
  29. "Unruly Teams Up With Nielsen, Affectiva, Moodagent And Kent State University To Bring End-To-End Emotional Intelligence To Digital Advertising".
  30. "IFPI DMA Press release, 3. september 2019" (PDF).
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