09 April 2013
Aircraft Interiors Expo Hamburg GermanyThales, a leader in in-flight entertainment and connectivity systems and Songdish, a music streaming social network for fans and a business tool for the music industry are pleased to announce the development, integration and marketing of a streaming audio application and service for the transportation industry. The Songdish application will feature content cached on-board Thales TopSeries system servers as well as streamed content for connected aircraft. Along with access to the ever growing Songdish library, the application provides information related to performers, concerts and destination event information.
This will allow passengers to follow their favorite artists, share content with their friends, and purchase tickets for events. Airlines derive new revenue from a percentage of sales and advertising on all versions of the Songdish mobile apps and website. Passengers will have access to the cloud based system allowing their playlists to be accessed from any Songdish platform including the Thales TopSeries platform. Artists, songwriters, record labels and publishers can upload their music content to Songdish for free to be a part of the content provided to the international audience. Songdish has signed a licensing agreement with Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) and is pursuing other prominent music publishing, rights management, licensors and royalty distributors.
Airlines will be able to create their own playlists, feature artists and be able to display origin and destination information to passengers through Songdish. The Songdish application tracks song plays and provides usage statistics to enhance future offerings, while the Songdish tool set enables easy payment processing for performing rights societies.
Songdish is a welcome addition to Thales ever growing list of applications to be featured on its system platform. We are pleased to work with innovative companies that can be molded to fit the commercial airplane market. Songdish represents a number of innovative companies working with Thales whom are willing to adapt their consumer based business models to allow airlines and passengers more flexibility to enhance their travelling experience said Stuart Dunleavy, VP of Media and Connectivity.
Songdish is excited about the opportunity to work with Thales, a market leader in aerospace. Thales's proven innovations, all of which enhance the passenger experience, enables Songdish to reach hundreds of millions of passengers each year. We are proud to be able to extend our web-based music service to the commercial airline market that will benefit from Songdish's music library and customer relationship toolset. said Gary Dewaard, Founder and President of Songdish.
About Songdish
Songdish is a music based social network and streaming platform that also houses business tools for Artists, Record Labels, Songwriters, Music Publishers, Booking Agents and Venues. The music industry can provide music and content to their fan-base for free and raise revenues with the data provided by Songdish. Songdish currently has music and users from multiple countries around the world and is expecting a large volume of traffic in 2013 with its newly released mobile applications for streaming music. For more information about Songdish visit www.songdish.com.
Press Contacts
Europe
Giaime Porcu
+33157 77 9218
Giaime.porcu@thalesgroup.com
United States
Lori Montalbano-Krans
+1 949-923-0976
lori.krans@us.thalesgroup.com
Songdish contact
PLA Media
+1 615-327-0100
pam.lewis@plamedia.com
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