Getty Images and Electric Jukebox in Partnership to Bring the Ultimate Audiovisual Experience to the Living Room

Getty Images and Electric Jukebox in Partnership to Bring the Ultimate Audiovisual Experience to the Living Room

LONDON, October 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --




- Electric Jukebox transforms your TV into a jukebox with millions of albums
- Getty Images visualisers to enhance ultimate music experience
- Curators include music icons Sheryl Crow and Robbie Williams
- Plug in Electric Jukebox and play in under 2 minutes


The Electric Jukebox Company and Getty Images today announce a partnership to bring a
unique hybrid audio visual experience to everyone's living room.  The Electric Jukebox
offers a unique plug and play music streaming experience for the home giving access to
tens of millions of albums with no monthly subscription or registration requirement.



Simply plug Electric Jukebox into your television, connect to WiFi and instantly play
millions of albums, curated music channels and celebrity mixtapes in CD quality whilst
also watching thousands of beautiful visualisers from the extensive image archive of Getty
Images. The visualiser experience provides a subtle visual enhancement to the consumer's
music experience.



The Electric Jukebox makes streaming as easy as playing a CD or switching on the
radio.



Featuring all the benefits of a premium music streaming subscription service in a box
but without the need for a smartphone or a PC, user accounts, passwords, app downloads or
monthly credit card subscriptions, makes it incredibly simple to set up and use. Electric
Jukebox represents the first Internet of Things music appliance for the home, making
on-demand music streaming [http://www.electricjukebox.com ] accessible to everyone.



Electric Jukebox [http://www.electricjukebox.com ] comprises a dedicated stick which
plugs into the HDMI port of your TV and instantly turns your TV into a jukebox with
millions of songs to enjoy using WiFi. It also features a beautifully designed gesture
based controller with built-in microphone featuring voice control, making it easy to find
and play music [http://www.electricjukebox.com ] on your television. Designed to sit on
the coffee table and be used by all the family, it's the easiest and most enjoyable way to
listen to music at home.  



Independent YouGov research* shows music streaming has failed to gain mass market
adoption. The most popular ways to listen to music at home are still radio (52%) and CDs
and Hifi (42%). Streaming hardware solutions like Sonos are used by only 6% of consumers
and more than 92% of consumers have yet to subscribe to any form of music streaming
service.



EJ Curators include Sheryl Crow, Robbie Williams, Stephen Fry and Alesha Dixon 



To ensure maximum appeal, Electric Jukebox features exclusive mixtapes from some of
music's best loved artists and celebrated curators including British music icon Robbie
Williams, his wife Ayda Williams, nine-time Grammy award winner Sheryl Crow, English actor,
writer and comedian Stephen Fry and Britain's Got Talent judge singer songwriter Alesha
Dixon.



Sheryl Crow said; "I love Electric Jukebox because it brings people together.
Listening to music and sharing those experiences together is what life's all about. With
headphones and iPhones we've somehow lost all that. Electric Jukebox plugs into your TV
and turns it into a jukebox with all the music you want, played out loud in your home for
you to listen together. Simple, fun and no fuss."



YouGov reports the four things consumers want to see in order to migrate to streaming
are: improved ease of use, a lack of a monthly subscription, improved affordability and
easier set up. There is a clear global opportunity to offer consumers a simple and
engaging music streaming device.



Rob Lewis, CEO of Electric Jukebox Company commented:



"We are bringing music back into people's living rooms. Working with Getty Images we
are enhancing the ultimate music jukebox by giving consumers a beautifully crafted and
delightful visual accompaniment that enhances their audio pleasure. We are grateful to
Getty Images and the thousands of photographers who are responsible for this extraordinary
archive. It is also yet another reason not to huddle around a laptop or smartphone to play
music, or play old CDs and radio. Mass market streaming has finally become a reality
through the ultimate plug-and-play audiovisual experience."



"There used to be 200 million people buying CDs every month and many more buying CDs
occasionally. After ten years of streaming only 40 million have converted to streaming
subscription services because of complexity, set-up difficulty and because of the fear of
recurring credit card based subscriptions. The Electric Jukebox is the product for the
other 160 million music lovers out there who want to join the revolution but have been
waiting for something fun, stylish and easy to use".



Vince Bannon of Getty Images commented:



"We are really excited about the experience this partnership is providing Electric
Jukebox users. Getty Images has the world's most powerful and engaging imagery, which will
provide a rich visual fabric for a musical landscape to weave through - this really is the
ultimate music experience.



How it works 



Electric Jukebox comes in two parts; a stick that you plug into the HDMI port of your
TV, and a beautifully designed motion sensitive controller with built-in microphone for
voice search, the Electric Jukebox Controller.



Once set up, the Electric Jukebox welcomes users with a homescreen featuring just
three icons; My Music, Discover and Search, each represented by a neon themed icon in the
shape of a heart, music note and magnifying glass. Designed to be as intuitive as possible,
and much more so than application based downloads, it is easy for the whole family to
explore and play music together from the comfort of the sofa.



The Getty Images audiovisual experience automatically presents itself to Electric
Jukebox users once they have selected music and have put the controller back onto the
coffee table.



Electric Jukebox is available to pre-order from http://www.electricjukebox.com for
UK RRP GBP179 US MSRP $229 (including a free 1 Year Premium Music Pass). Pre-orders will
benefit from our introductory offer of just GBP149 in the UK and $199 in the US. Electric
Jukebox will also be available on the high-street and in consumer's hands in time for
Christmas. All pricing includes a free 1 Year Music Pass worth GBP60 / $60.



The Electric Jukebox Board and Advisory Board includes:




- Sir Malcolm Williamson, Chairman, previously President & CEO, VISA International,
previously Group CEO, Standard Chartered
- Paul McGuinness, previously Manager of U2
- Rob Dickins CBE, previously CEO, Warner Music, Founder of The Brits
- David Munns OBE, Chairman of Nordoff Robins, previously President & CEO, EMI Americas
- Alain Levy, previously Global President & CEO, EMI Music
- Scooter Weintraub, Manager of Sheryl Crow
- James White, previously Finance Director, Island Records
- Amanda Conroy, previously SVP Corporate Communications, EMI, Universal Music Group
- Mark Gretton, Founder and previously COO of TomTom
- Susanne Given, previously COO of Super Group, previously UK MD TK Maxx
- Jez Bell, Chief Licensing Officer, PPL
- Michael Mainelli, Excecutive Chairman, Z/Yen Group
- Peter Cornell, previously Global Managing Partner, Clifford Chance
- Stephen Hornsby, Partner, Goodman Derrick
- Ken Daly, CEO, JML
- Mark Atkinson, Director TP Tax, previously, Partner, Deloitte


Find out more about Electric Jukebox here: http://www.electricjukebox.com



Notes to editors 



* Conducted by YouGov for Electric Jukebox (UK and US 2,000 people sample) October
2015



**2015 Mid-Year RIAA Shipment and Revenue Statistics:



About Electric Jukebox Company 



Founded by CEO Rob Lewis, previously Founder CEO of Omnifone
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnifone ] and a Ernst & Young and Library House
Entrepreneur of The Year, Rob leads a team based in London. The Electric Jukebox Company
believes everyone has the right to enjoy music in their homes and lives. We create
beautifully simple music appliances for the home - making music streaming fun and easy so
everyone can listen together.



About Electric Jukebox 



Electric Jukebox is available to pre-order from http://www.electricjukebox.com
from today UK RRP GBP179 US MSRP $229 (which includes a free 12 month Premium Music Pass).
Launch pre-orders made benefit from a seven day introductory offer of just GBP149 in the
UK and $199 in the US. Electric Jukebox will also be available on the high-street and in
consumers' hands in time for Christmas.  



Follow Electric Jukebox on Facebook at http://www.Facebook.com/ElectricJukebox and
Twitter at  https://twitter.com/ElectricJukebox for the latest updates.



About Getty Images 



Getty Images [http://www.gettyimages.com ] is the world's leader in visual
communication, with almost 200 million assets available through its premium content site
http://www.gettyimages.com and its leading stock content site
http://www.istock.com. With its advanced search and image recognition technology,
Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100 countries and is the first place
creative and media professionals turn to discover, purchase and manage images and other
digital content. Its award-winning photographers and content creators help customers
produce inspiring work which appears every day in the world's most influential newspapers,
magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and online media.
Visit Getty Images at http://www.gettyimages.com to learn more about how the company
is advancing the unique role of digital media in communications and business, and enabling
creative ideas to come to life.  For company news and announcements, visit
press.gettyimages.com [http://press.gettyimages.com ], and for the stories, innovation and
inspiration behind our content, visit Stories & Trends http://stories.gettyimages.com.
Find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/gettyimages or Twitter at
https://twitter.com/GettyImages.




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CONTACT: Electric Jukebox PR contacts: Dynamo PR (UK), electricjukebox@dynamopr.com, +44-(0)203-574-4815. Bender/Helper Impact (US), Nick Valente, +1-(310)-694-3157, nick_valente@bhimpact.com. Tim Hadley, Communications Director, tim.hadley@ElectricJukebox.com


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