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"A Bar Song" becomes the first newly released song since Chris Stapleton's "Tennessee Whiskey" to be the jukebox company's most-played song of the year. Read more

TouchTunes, the global leader in digital jukebox entertainment, has announced that this year's National Jukebox Day ambassadors will be the legendary METALLICA. Read more

In the chart's second iteration, covering the third quarter of 2024, the track reigns again, followed by Post Malone's "I Had Some Help." Read more

A new feature that will allow dart players to challenge one another to win cash or credits is coming to the TouchTunes app later this year, thanks to a deal with the gamification company Lucra. Read more

The track ranks at No. 1 on TouchTunes' first Frontline ranking, while Chris Stapleton's "Tennessee Whiskey" rules the Catalog chart. Read more

TouchTunes Music Company will soon offer darts players in social entertainment venues the chance to wager between themselves for real money or credits. Read more

TouchTunes Music Company, LLC (“TouchTunes”), North America’s largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, today announces an exclusive partnership with Lucra, the leading technology provider of gamification services. Read more

TouchTunes Music Company, LLC (“TouchTunes”), North America’s largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, is unveiling a completely revamped mobile app today at Amusement Expo. The new mobile app makes the digital jukebox experience more seamless and engaging, connecting consumers in person through the power of music like never before. Read more

TouchTunes Music Company, LLC (“TouchTunes”), North America’s largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, is announcing FunWallet, a cutting-edge cashless mobile payment platform. This industry-first digital payment system will allow users to easily pay for a full range of in-venue amusement machines with their phone. Read more

TouchTunes Music Company, LLC (“TouchTunes”), the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, announces it has acquired the business of Arachnid 360, LLC (“Arachnid”), the originator and innovator of soft-tip electronic darts. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform in the United States, announces today its 25th Anniversary Sweepstakes to celebrate a remarkable two and a half decades since revolutionizing the shared music experience with the invention of a commercial digital jukebox.  Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform in the United States has partnered with superstar Toby Keith for the launch of the exclusive artist-curated playlist, "Toby Keith Presents: Made In America," which is now available on TouchTunes jukeboxes nationwide and through our industry-leading jukebox mobile app, just in time for the Independence Day holiday weekend.  Read more

Coinslot: With IWD gaining traction year on year, are you seeing a shift in trends as far as prospects for women in businesses are concerned and are attitudes noticeably changing in favour of a more equitable dynamic?  Read more

TouchTunes, a leading in-venue, interactive music and entertainment platform, today announced that TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the company from funds advised by Searchlight Capital Partners, L.P. (“Searchlight”) and Newlight Partners LP (“Newlight”). Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, available in bars and restaurants across the U.S., today released its annual Year-End Charts reporting the top-played songs and artists of 2018. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform spanning 65,000 bars, restaurants and other venues across North America, today announced the launch of the Angelina, a breakthrough jukebox delivering unparalleled performance, serviceability and value. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, available in 65,000 U.S. bars and restaurants, today released its annual Year-End Charts reporting the top played songs and artists of 2017. Read more

Company Celebrates National Jukebox Day With Music Artist And Fan Jukebox-Related Stories, And A $2,500 Sweepstakes. Read more

TouchTunes, a digital jukebox company, has incorporated Foursquare software into its app, so it can push notifications to users when they're at the bar and send them personalized song suggestions. Read more

Now playing on the rooftop at Gansevoort hotels: the same European electronic hits that can be heard at parties in Saint-Tropez. At Juice Press's 51 city locations, the speakers broadcast reggae songs cut with pop hits. The soundtrack at Nobu bounces from deep house to offbeat R&B to bossa nova. Read more

Combined company gains global scale and resources to accelerate innovation for music and branded entertainment media experiences. Read more

Warner Bros. and Warner Music Nashville recording artist Chris Janson stepped out of the studio for a mid-morning stop at his local Waffle House on a recent Friday with his brand new single and summer anthem "Fix a Drink" playing throughout the restaurant. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform in North America and PlayNetwork, the leading global provider of music and branded entertainment media, today announced a definitive agreement to merge their businesses. The companies will leverage their complementary, best-in-class products and services to accelerate innovation and growth and to help their customers and partners increase revenue and consumer engagement. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform available in 65,000 bars and restaurants, today announced its exclusive partnership with UPshow, a leading social marketing and digital signage company that provides in-venue social TV entertainment. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, available in 65,000  bars and restaurants, today announced an exclusive partnership with Harbortouch, a leading national point-of-sale (POS) system and merchant services provider which has served over 300,000 businesses across the country and currently processes over $12 billion in payments annually. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, available in 65,000 U.S. bars and restaurants, today released its annual Year-End Charts reporting the top played jukebox songs and artists of 2016. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest interactive music and entertainment network in over 65,000 bars and restaurants nationwide, and the Registrar at National Day Calendar have officially declared the day before Thanksgiving as National Jukebox Day. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, today announced a new partnership with leading UK jukebox provider Sound Leisure. This new partnership will see Sound Leisure join forces with TouchTunes and Soundnet to market the TouchTunes Playdium jukebox in the UK. TouchTunes acquired Soundnet in June of 2014. Read more

Up to the minute information on Metro, Rail and Bus, Uber and Lyft are now available all on one screen inside D.C. area bars. Read more

Several Pernod Ricard USA liquor brands — including Jameson Irish Whiskey, Absolut Vodka and Malibu — are sponsoring the TouchTunes Media local transit information program. TouchTunes will display this information at its digital jukeboxes in bars and taverns, according to a press release. Read more

Now that we never need to dismount from the barstool to drop quarters in the jukebox, it just seems wrong to call TouchTunes a mobile app. Pushing through a crowd to reach an illuminated cabinet required actual mobility, also called walking. But that was then. Today no one with a smartphone is budging. In the battle of the bulge, beer wins, waistline loses. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, today announced the acquisition of music services provider Music Direction.  The company, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, provides custom-branded background music services to retail, restaurant and hospitality clients.  Music Direction will continue to offer its solutions, which are designed to support client brands by strengthening customer relationships and increasing sales. Read more

Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis, better known as Tony Orlando, is New York's 2016 Jukebox Artist of the Year. The Amusement and Music Owners Association of New York honored the 1970s' pop sensation, who is a New York native, along with TouchTunes' Phil Cohn, a rising star in the jukebox industry, at a festive awards dinner on May 10 here. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform in over 65,000 bars and restaurants across North America, today announced the renewal of their exclusive jukebox license of The Beatles. The band’s 13 legendary studio albums, along with The Beatles' two-volume 'Past Masters' compilation, the classic 'Red' and 'Blue' collections, the '1' hits collection, and the 'LOVE' album, will continue to be available on TouchTunes jukeboxes and mobile app in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, TouchTunes has added ‘Anthology Highlights,’ a 23-track collection of essential songs from The Beatles’ ‘Anthology, Volumes 1-3’ audio releases. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, today announced its next-generation mobile app is now available for download for both iOS and Android devices. The enhanced app gives users an intuitive, music-first design, personalized experience and improved usability to better control TouchTunes' jukeboxes in 65,000 bars, restaurants and other social hotspots across North America. Read more

Rarely does a new music app make me feel nervous. But as the TouchTunes product team swipes through their app’s redesigned interface and boasts about its new features, I realize I’m screwed. Put this thing on my phone and get a couple cocktails in me, and I’ll be blowing through my hard-earned disposable income in no time. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, today announced country singer-songwriter Tyler Rich as the winner of its annual Breakout Band contest. The second installment of the TouchTunes Breakout Band contest gave nearly 300 unsigned artists the opportunity to win a live audition with an A&R executive at Warner Bros. Records, $3,000 and a national music promotion on TouchTunes' jukeboxes in 65,000 bars, restaurants and other social hotspots across North America. Read more

You may not know them by name, but if you’re the type that likes to go bar-hopping in your local city on a weekend night, you’re probably already familiar with TouchTunes. The company produces the digital jukeboxes that have been spreading across the country for the past decade or so, popping up in bars everywhere. The idea behind them is really simple: bring jukeboxes into the digital age, and let people pick the music they want to hear where they are. Read more

Jukebox manufacturer TouchTunes has announced its newest smartphone app, which the company says is more intuitive than previous versions and will also sync with your Spotify library. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, today announced plans to release its newly redesigned mobile app in April.  The new app allows users to be the DJ and take control of TouchTunes’ jukeboxes in 65,000 bars, restaurants and other social hotspots across North America. Its interface boasts an intuitive, music-first design, a personalized user experience and improved usability, enabling users to find nearby locations, search for music, import playlists, earn rewards, and play their favorite songs like never before. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform in 71,000 social venues globally, has named Ross Honey as its new President and Chief Operating Officer.  Based in New York, Honey will assume responsibility for sales, marketing, engineering, product management, music, the company’s Attract Media advertising group, and other core operating functions. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, today released its annual Year-End Charts reporting the top played songs and artists of 2015. Based on the music played on its domestic network of digital jukeboxes and mobile app, TouchTunes’ year in review offers distinct insights into the music fans partied to across 60,000 social venues nationwide. Read more

Jukebox 'Battle of the Bands' gives unsigned artists a chance to win an audition with Warner Bros. Records A&R, $3,000 and a national music promotion on TouchTunes. Read more

Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, a multiday festival held in New Orleans, is evaluating the results of a Bluetooth beacon solution used last month at its annual Halloween weekend music festival—to bring information and promotional offers not only to individuals attending the show, in the park where it was happening, but also to those in the community who might not have tickets. Read more

For all the dramatic shifts in technology that have changed the ways we listen to music, not a lot has changed – geographically speaking, at least. In May, the WSJ illustrated the differences in song preferences in New York by using data from e-jukeboxes. The visualization acted as a social lens, peering into the character and musical tastes of different neighborhoods, which may have developed from cultural and regional influences. But what if we were to zoom that lens onto Charlotte, Dallas or San Francisco? Read more

The Digital Place Based Advertising Association today announced that TouchTunes, which it said is the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment network in North America, has become the latest addition to the trade organization's membership ranks. TouchTunes earlier this year announced the launch of Attract Media, a new digital out-of-home activation platform for advertisers and publishers to connect with millennial consumers in more than 60,000 social venues nationwide. Read more

Manhattan’s East Village loves Beyonce. Staten Island jams to the Zac Brown Band. And in Hell’s Kitchen, a nearly 18-year-old Shania Twain song still has people dancing.  With jukeboxes now Internet-enabled and app-accessible to vast song libraries, it’s possible to create a visual map of the tunes New Yorkers seek out, by location. Read more

When digital jukebox maker TouchTunes rolled out Attract Media (“a digital-out-of-home activation platform”) last week, the focus was predominantly on direct sales. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment network in North America, announced today the launch of Attract Media, a new digital out-of-home activation platform for advertisers and publishers to connect with millennial consumers in over 60,000 social venues nationwide. The announcement is the next step in the company’s evolution to create an unprecedented level of interaction between brands and consumers. Read more

Searchlight Capital Partners, L.P. ("Searchlight") today announced that funds managed by Searchlight have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interest in TouchTunes Interactive Networks, Inc. ("TouchTunes" or the "Company"), the largest in-venue interactive music and entertainment platform, featured in over 71,000 bars and restaurants across North America and Europe. Read more

With 2014 drawing to a close, it's not just Billboard that's busy working on its year-end charts. Digital jukebox leader TouchTunes announced its annual top-played songs and artists Wednesday (Dec. 10) for jukeboxes across North America and Europe. If you ever doubted the combination of alcohol and country music, doubt no more. Read more

Effective advertising is all about maximizing touchpoints. Now, Thrillist Media Group (TMG), the men’s digital media company, and TouchTunes, operator of interactive entertainment kiosks that users control via mobile devices, are partnering to introduce a first-of-its kind cross-platform ad solution that runs across mobile, Web, social, email and TouchTunes’ network of 60,000 bars and restaurants throughout the U.S. Read more

Digital jukebox operator TouchTunes announced another win with the addition of its network to Kinetic’s Active Exchange, making its lifestyle venues audiences available for programmatic buying to big advertising clients via Kinetic parent company WPP. Through the deal with Kinetic, TouchTunes’ digital ad inventory will be accessible to WPP ad clients through Kinetic Active, a full-service in-house shop launched by Kinetic in May 2014 to offer clients creative development, special builds, experiential, proximity media strategy and buying, mobile activation and social engagement, among other services. Read more

MovieTickets.com has partnered with TouchTunes to promote upcoming movies and sell tickets, the companies said Tuesday.  TouchTunes provides jukeboxes for over 60,000 bars and restaurants across North America, which will allow the online ticketer to attract a lot of eyeballs. Customers will be able to learn more about new releases, as well as purchase tickets on the jukeboxes that TouchTunes operates as well as its mobile app. Read more

SoundHound, the pioneering company in sound recognition and search technologies, and TouchTunes have partnered to give SoundHound users control of the music in more than 60,000 bars and restaurants. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest interactive entertainment platform in North America, and Photo Finish Records, a joint venture label with Republic Records (a division of Universal Music Group) are joining forces in search of America's next big talent. The TouchTunes 2014 Breakout Band contest will take place this summer and allow unsigned artists a chance to win a single release with Photo Finish Records, as well as $3,000 and a national music promotion on TouchTunes. Read more

TouchTunes Interactive Networks, the largest in-venue interactive entertainment network in North America, is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of Soundnet, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of audio and visual content to bars, clubs and other venues. Read more

TouchTunes, the largest in-venue interactive entertainment network in North America, today announced its latest innovation, Playdium, a next-generation entertainment platform that redefines the possibilities for new and engaging user experiences.  Playdium combines a revolutionary music experience that allows the jukebox to reflect the musical taste of each venue with a sleek, modular design that dramatically simplifies service and support.  In addition, TouchTunes is also showcasing its full line of entertainment solutions at the Amusement Expo including its industry leading mobile app and Tanjarine, a new tablet-based menu and entertainment solution for restaurants. Read more

Some bars really make you work for your drink. You wave and feint to catch the bartender’s eye, and even then your scotch might be made with unspecial cubes of booze-diluting ice. Life’s no bowl of maraschino cherries for bar owners either—those 17 vodka brands aren’t going to keep track of themselves. Here’s how new tippling technology of today will bring you the ultimate, optimized, smooth-drinking bar of tomorrow. Read more

Nostalgia aside, digital jukeboxes are starting to offer far more advantages over traditional ones than being able to skip your song to the front of the queue. Read more

A research report on the dynamics of crowd-sourcing music at the frog SXSW Interactive Opening Party. Read more

An upgrade to the standard barroom jukebox, TouchTunes is also a photo booth, allowing you to take pictures, apply filters, change frames, and email them right from the console. Read more

At the official kick-off party for SXSW, Frog Design created an installation around unusual objects embedded with technology, creating an Internet of truly weird things. Read more

TouchTunes is making waves in the on-premise A/V category by creating an interactive experience for customers where there was once only music—at the jukebox. With its Karaoke and PhotoBooth services rolling out en mass this year, bar patrons are now participants in their own entertainment. Read more

The world’s most innovative technology companies will demonstrate their newest offerings and engage with Marketing leaders… Read more

TouchTunes CEO Charles Goldstuck, the former record industry exec who joined the digital juke-box company in 2009, has captured the attention of the trade over the last three years by introducing cutting-edge new products like the smart juke Virtuo and doing so in Hollywood style. Read more

Jason Eisenhauer thinks Adele has a lovely voice. But he can only take so much of the ubiquitous British singer. The owner of two Irish sports bars in Columbus, Ohio, had to listen to Adele endlessly on the jukeboxes in his drinking establishments. Read more

Thirteen Beatles studio albums in addition to their Past masters, "Red," "Blue," and  "1" collections will be featured on  TouchTunes' 50,000 digital jukeboxes starting April 1. Read more

Sixteen months after its back-catalogue finally arrived on iTunes, and three weeks after it became available as official ringtones, The Beatles’ music has now been licensed to TouchTunes Interactive Networks, North America’s largest downloading pay-per-play network of digital jukeboxes. Read more

Going out on a limb technologically is customary for TouchTunes Interactive Networks, a company that changed the jukebox genre with the introduction of the first digital downloading jukebox 14 years ago. Read more

If your idea of a kick-ass jukebox is a hulking old thing with rusty trip levers, a disco ball, and every Jimmy Buffet album ever, then we entreat you to stop reading immediately. Because what Frog Design has done to the jukebox will appear downright blasphemous. Read more

TouchTunes stole the tradeshow this spring with a glitzy unveiling of the new Virtuo smart jukebox, and by all reports the units are making quite an entrance at locations around the country. Charles Goldstuck, who is celebrating two years as the company's top executive, says the launch of Virtuo is merely the first act in a comprehensive plan to grow the company's location network and consumer mindshare. Read more

Having a wide variety of music available to us when we’re out at our favorite bar or restaurant is a must and I’m sure many of you are familiar with TouchTunes digital jukeboxes, but it looks like they are stepping up their game with the TouchTunes Virtuo. Read more

Since the 1920s, young people everywhere have been dropping coins into music machines, giving them the power to select the tunes that will set the mood or get the party started. Read more

Frog design turned our eyes to the TouchTunes Virtuo – a jukebox redesigned to refresh its image and status as a cultural icon. frog collaborated with TouchTunes to address the evolved behavior and expectations of users now accustomed to digital music players, digital music libraries and the ubiquity of playlists dependent on singles (not just albums). Read more

2010 may have seen the widespread debut of 4G networks and smartphones, but 2011 will be the year that 4G moves into the mainstream. It’s also likely to be the year that we see more and more apps designed to run on a 4G connection. Read more

Last month, digital jukebox purveyor TouchTunes announced a new Web-based service that lets users create playlists at home and then access them later at nearly any location with one of the company's jukeboxes. Read more

Nightclub and bar patrons love electronic games and entertainment, no doubt. But knowing which systems they’ll love most and which will work best within the context of an establishment can seem to an operator like a lights-flashing, bells-clanging test of skill and daring. Read more

The TouchTunes jukebox company has scored upcoming Beck album Modern Guilt for release on July 1st on its networked system of 10,000 nationwide jukeboxes, one week before it goes on sale. Read more

Touch Tunes and LocaModa are linking up 30,000 Jukeboxes that can be controlled via cellphone, meaning you don't have to drunkenly stumble through hoards of people at a bar just to get some decent tunes. Read more

Touchtunes, the supplier of those snazzy digital jukeboxes that can be found in over 30,000 bars and clubs, has teamed up with "social technology" company Loca Moda to provide a mobile social platform that connects consumers' favorite online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter with their favorite social hangouts such as bars and clubs. Read more