Alan Black, founder of Sound Leisure, has responded to his company’s launch of the TouchTunes Playdium jukebox at the London ACOS show, for which the UK company will act as distributor.
Black said: “I’ve always felt our business is at its most impressive when operators have the opportunity to sit down together and discuss products and the future, which is why I believe ACOS to be such an important gathering on the UK calendar of B2B events for our sector.
“The Playdium is revered by operators in the US and it was extremely important for the teams at Soundnet, Sound Leisure and TouchTunes, led by chairman and CEO, Charles Goldstuck, who flew into London specifically for the launch, to be able to explain to the UK operating community why Playdium is not just another product, but rather, an innovation which has the capacity to help both operators and their customers to maximise the income potential of in-venue, pay-to-play music.”
He added that the arguments, based on TouchTunes’ experience in the US and the six months spent testing Playdium on-site in the UK have “struck a chord with customers, whose interest has been enhanced further by our Playdium launch promotion.”
Widely regarded by music operators in the US as being very much the “next generation” entertainment platform, Playdium enables venues to select from a variety of music profiles in order to tailor the experience to the characteristics and profile of their location and their customer base. The smart jukebox has the capacity to learn from the music that has been selected and intuitively highlights the songs, artists and search results that will be most relevant, thereby improving the customer experience. The TouchTunes app has been operating in North America for more than five years and is currently generating in excess of three million plays a week.
