| Website | imeem.com |
| Blog | imeemblog.imeem.com |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
| Employees | 63 |
| Description | Social media discovery service |
| Snocap, 2/08 | |
| Anywhere.FM, 1/08 |
| Total | $21.2M |
| Seed, 10/06 First Round Capital Mark Goines Ron Conway Geoff Ralston Sy Fahimi | $750k |
| Series A, 9/04 Sequoia Capital Morgenthaler Ventures | $3M |
| Series B, 4/08 Sequoia Capital | |
| Unattributed Warner Bros. | $15M |
| Unattributed, 6/09 Sequoia Capital | $2.4M |
Imeem is a social media network where users can create, recommend and discover music, film/video, art, and pop culture media and connect with other users who have similar tastes.
After originally pushing an instant-messaging centric model, Imeem decided to start offering custom music playlists, video channels, photo slideshows and blogs, which could all be easily shared through the web. These offerings helped the company gain a fair amount of traction despite being blocked by MySpace. The MySpace blockage wasn’t the only bad news Imeem got – they were also sued by Warner Music for copyright infringement. However, it didn’t take long for the Sequoia-backed company to bounce back. They quickly legitimized their service by signing an agreement with Snocap.
Today artists are paid in proportion to the popularity of their music on Imeem. The company also partnered with three major record labels (Sony BMG, EMI Music and Warner Music Group) as well as hundreds of indie labels. This has allowed Imeem to offer free (Imeem’s partners take a cut of the ad revenue) on-demand streaming of music and video content. This model seems to be working quite well for the company, as they are currently (as of 11/07) attracting over 18 million unique users each month.
Imeem takes its name from “meme” - a term coined to describe the ideas that communities, adopt, and express.
| Website | imeem.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Tags | music, video, blogs, music-promotion |
imeem is the world’s largest social music community. On imeem, people can stream unlimited music and videos for free, express themselves with music and video playlists, and find friends with similar tastes. To build playlists, people can legally upload their own music and videos to imeem or choose from millions of songs and videos already available. People can easily share and embed the playlists they find and create on imeem, and buy downloads from either iTunes or Amazon.
imeem is free and let’s you upload your music to the site. Each uploaded song is checked by Snocap’s digital fingerprinting software against their library of millions of tracks and allowed for full streaming on the site if the artist has opted in. imeem was the first online music service to partner directly with all four major music labels to let people legally stream music for free online.
imeem also works with thousands of independent labels and musicians. Artists can keep their fans informed through posting their latest creations, tour dates and other information.
The site offers groups, discovery tools and detailed statistics (so you can see how successful your creation has become).
imeem has over 25 million people visit the site each month plus another 85 million people visiting imeem’s widget and app network.
| Website | imeem.com/mobile |
| Launch Date | October 21, 2008 |
imeem for Android helps people easily discover music that matches their tastes. The application enables users to create custom Internet radio stations by searching for specific artists, discover new music through personalized recommendations and listen to the most popular artists in the imeem community. The application also gives people the ability to purchase DRM-free downloads by linking to the Amazon MP3 application on Android.
imeem for Android comes with a number of continually updating stations influenced by people’s individual listening habits and tastes and those of the larger imeem community.
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