Company information

Who is Shazam?

Grown into an established business, but retained our start-up approach and work ethic: Shazam believes in creating a magical experience and is passionate about developing innovative products and services.  Because of our commitment, we have over 165 million people around the world who use Shazam to discover new songs or other content.  And we’re growing every day, adding more than 1.5 million new Shazamers every week, resulting in more than 5 million tags a day!

How did we get here …

It all started in 2002 - even before the advent of smartphones - Shazam launched a simple service designed to connect people in the UK with music they heard but didn’t know.  Since then, Shazam has come of age and moved beyond music discovery and has now evolved into one of the world’s most recognized mobile consumer brands.

The launch pad to our success has been our core music recognition technology that enables anyone with a mobile phone to identify music that is playing - even under noisy conditions - wherever they are, simply by Shazaming it.  The clip is run through our database of more than 11 million tracks (extending back to the '50s) to find an exact fingerprint match.

Over the years, we have continually developed our App to include other useful content such as music recommendations, lyrics, and tour information – and, of course, the opportunity to watch the video or buy the track.

Shazam is now used in a variety of ways: Shazamers can use it to discover new music, search for a specific interest, buy a range of music products, marking a track to buy it later, or just to create a collection and even pass it on to friends and family through our Shazam Friends feature.  In selected areas, Shazam for TV enables customers to tag their favorite shows or commercials to access exclusive content, contests and other information.

Shazam supports most of today's platforms: iOS (iPhone and iPod touch), Android, BlackBerry, BREW, J2ME, Symbian and Windows Phone.

Shazam Entertainment is a privately held company headquartered in London with offices in New York, Palo Alto and Seoul.