music and radio founded january 2004 headquarters 69 wilson street london ec2a 2bb london united kingdom number of locations 5 area served 85 countries key people simon cole pete downton ed kershaw paul langworthy philippe decottignies amy wallace matt honey kellie while services download stores white label music solutions api production streaming music services radio services voucher promotions loyalty schemes number of employees 125 subsidiaries entertainment news unique the production company smooth operations unique interactive above the title website corporate site 7digital group plc is a publicly listed digital music and radio services platform . 7digital offers both b2b services for digital media partners as well as 7digital branded direct to consumer d2c music download stores . 7digital s platform and api have been used to power digital music services for businesses like guvera 1 onkyo 2 rok mobile 3 samsung 4 blackberry 5 and hmv . 7digital s group companies smooth operations unique production and above the title produce independent content for broadcasters like bbc radio 1 radio 1xtra bbc radio 2 and bbc radio 3 . 7digital music download stores are available globally and have major label catalogue in over 40 countries . they also have a mobile web store smartphone apps for android blackberry 10 devices firefox os windows and ios . contents 1 history 2 clients 2.1 musical.ly 2.2 emusic 2.3 guvera 2.4 onkyo 2.5 spanish broadcasting system 2.6 panasonic 2.7 samsung 2.8 blackberry 2.9 hmv 2.10 ubuntu one music store canonical 2.11 spotify 2.12 other 3 7digital . com 3.1 geographical availability 4 see also 5 references history edit 7digital was founded in january 2004 by ben drury and james kane as a b2b digital music services company building music download stores for record labels brands and other retailers . 7digital direct to consumer d2c service was launched in 2005 . 7digital is backed by technology venture capital firm balderton capital formerly benchmark capital europe . on january 28 2008 7digital raised 4.25 m in its series b investor round securing investment from various groups including sutton place managers . the investment was to be used to launch 7digital . com in more european countries and the united states 6 along with expanding the sites offerings to include downloadable video and computer games . 7 in september 2008 7digital . com was the first company in europe to launch drm free mp3 downloads with all four major record labels . 8 as of october 2008 7digital employed 45 people in london and had over 1.3 million registered customers . 9 on 3 august 2009 hmv bought a 50 % holding in 7digital from its venture capital owners . 10 in 2011 7digital expanded with an office in luxembourg and in early 2012 they expanded to the us with an office in san francisco ca. 11 in october 2012 7digital secured 10 million in funding from two new investors dolby and imagination technologies . 12 hmv s stake was previously reduced to less than 20 % 13 and following hmv entering into administration retail restructuring specialists hilco are now the holders of these shares . on 25 november 2013 ubc media announced merger plans with 7digital by way of a reverse takeover . 14 15 the merger was completed in may 2014 forming 7digital group plc. 16 clients edit 7digital s agnostic platform is used for building products on any type of connected device . partners have included samsung yahoo sirius hmv t mobile and the bbc . musical.ly edit in may 2016 it was announced that 7digital had won a contract with music video app company musical.ly . 17 emusic edit in jan 2016 it was announced that 7digital would be partnering with emusic to power the digital music platform following its re launch . under this arrangement emusic will access its licensed content for customers through the 7digital catalog . 18 guvera edit in july 2014 the australian based streaming service guvera announced that it was launching into various territories in asia and the middle east using 7digital s api . 19 guvera offers on demand and ad supported radio streaming services in a number of territories . partnering with 7digital allowed guvera marked the first time entry to middle eastern markets for both guvera and 7digital . the 7digital powered guvera service launched through app stores and as a pre load on lenovo smartphones and tablets . on 10 november 2014 guvera announced that it had launched its streaming service in india . 20 onkyo edit in june 2014 it was announced that 7digital were contracted to power a hi res music service for japanese hi fi manufacturer onkyo . 21 spanish broadcasting system edit in september 2014 it was announced that sbs will partner with 7digital to launch new digital streaming services . 22 7digital s api and infrastructure will provide la musica sbs online latin music entertainment and news destination with content management technology and a royalty reporting system to support additional music products beyond the site s current radio station streaming offering . panasonic edit in november 2014 it was announced that panasonic had launched a new 7digital powered hi res music service 23 under their recently re launched technics brand . the service called technics tracks revealed there would be tens of thousands of 24 bit 192 khz songs 100s of thousands of 24 bit flac tracks and many millions of 16 bit 44.1 khz songs . samsung edit samsung selected 7digital as the strategic partner for music hub version 1.0 . this version of music hub provided downloads and synchronisation for offline use . the relationship continued with the replacement of music hub 1 by the parallel launch of music hub 2.0 and 3.0 dependent on the territory that the handset was designated for . in 2012 with the launch of samsung galaxy s3 devices in europe 24 and north america the music hub has begun to include subscription streaming alongside their music downloads . 7digital pre install is also available on samsung galaxy s4 . 25 blackberry edit blackberry and 7digital first worked together on a download app for their playbook tablet back in 2010 since then both companies have continued to work closely together on various applications including 7digital branded smartphone apps for their os 7 devices and more recently replacement of the blackberry world music store for a 7digital branded application for blackberry 10 users . 26 in 2012 blackberry began development on a new white labeled service called blackberry world which was built using the 7digital api . the service was purpose built to run on their new os qnx which would feature on their newly launched z10 and q10 smartphones . the service rolled out from january 2013 and is live in 18 countries . it offers high quality mp3 music downloads to blackberry customers directly via their bb10 device and also via web based stores . the launch of the service in argentina brazil colombia mexico and south africa also established 7digital s presence in these new emerging markets . 27 hmv edit 7digital is independent of their business since significant investment they received in 2012 . re launched in october 2013 hmvdigital.com is an la carte download store available both online and on mobile supported by a desktop and locker management application . 7digital provides all back end technology user account and billing systems alongside catalogue management and licensing . mobile apps feature sound and image recognition functionality simplifying the path to finding and buying music . 7digital enabled hmv to simultaneously launch across five platforms with plans for international expansion to numerous territories . 28 ubuntu one music store canonical edit 7digital collaborated with canonical ltd. to provide the ubuntu one music store in the ubuntu operating system starting from ubuntu 10.04 . 29 on 2 april 2014 canonical announced the closure of all of the ubuntu one file services . 30 spotify edit spotify users from the uk france norway finland spain the netherlands and sweden were able to purchase tracks to download if available from 7digital . 31 this was done by right clicking and selecting the buy from link . however spotify launched their own purchase service during 2011 which replaced 7digital . 32 this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . march 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message other edit in october 2014 it was announced that 7digital would work with will.i.am 33 for his new wearable smart device . in november 2014 7digital partners technics launched technics tracks a new premium hi resolution audio service . 34 7digital . com edit 7digital offers music tracks in mp3 320 256 m4a 16 bit and 24 bit flac audio . 35 7digital has apps for android ios blackberry windows and firefox os operating systems as well as a mobile optimized store available on any device . the 7digital mobile app is pre installed on devices through partnerships with acer 36 htc 37 samsung blackberry pioneer 38 hp dell and sonos . the 7digital music download stores run weekly localised promotions with discounts on new albums and catalogue titles weekly free track promotions and editorial features . 7digital . com stores have local currency language and catalogue throughout europe north america and parts of asia pacific . 7digital stores the users music via the 7digital locker allowing access to previous purchases from any device . users can then download these music purchases to their device or stream from their 7digital locker . locker streaming is also available on wireless sonos devices . launched in 2004 7digital . com is one of the uk s first digital music download stores . 39 its catalogue hosts digital music tracks with a bit rate of 320kbp plus from the major record labels and independent music aggregators . 7digital s indiestore launched in early 2006 and allowed unsigned artists and independent labels create their own digital music download store for free . 40 the indiestore was discontinued in 2010 . 41 7digital directs independent artists to work with independent aggregators where they will be able to service their music to a variety of music retailers . 42 in december 2014 7digital became the first music platform to adopt meridian audio s high quality mqa format for streaming downloads . 43 geographical availability edit as of july 2015 7digital operates in 82 countries . 44 see also edit hd audio references edit malt andy 11 june 2014 . guvera partners with 7digital . complete music update . retrieved 2 december 2014 . cox joe 2 june 2014 . onkyo and 7digital to launch high res music store in europe and us . whit hi fi . retrieved 2 december 2014 . hart tina 12 june 2013 . 7digital partners with rok mobile music network . music week . summers nick 15 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