The Hype Machine

ABOUT:HypeMSS

Every month, over one million people rely on The Hype Machine to help them discover new music. Founded in 2005 by Anthony Volodkin, hypem.com is a highly regarded music aggregator powered by an exceptional search capability that scours thousands of top music blogs to return relevant music recommendations.

DATA AND FUN FACTS:

  • Anthony Volodkin, The Hype Machine’s founder, was named one of Inc. Magazine’s “30 under 30″ in ‘09
  • The Hype Machine yields more unique, authentic and underground results than any other music search tool, including many unreleased track remixes.
  • The Hype Machine visitors are highly engaged and spend an average of 17 minutes on the site.
  • The Hype Machine offers a cool “spy” feature empowering users to spy on what other people are listening to.

WHAT THE MEDIA SAYS:

This thing does for MP3s what Google did for search engines.

- Esquire Magazine

TOP BRANDS YOU MAY HAVE SEEN ON HYPEM.COM:

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Source: comScore March 2010; Google Analytics March 2010; Nielsen @plan Rel 1 2010