Jukedeck
| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 in London |
| Founder(s) | Ed Newton-Rex Patrick Stobbs |
| Industry | Synthetic media Algorithmic composition |
Jukedeck was a British technology company founded in 2012.[1] It built a website that let users create royalty-free music using artificial intelligence.[2]
History
[edit]Ed Newton-Rex started building the first version of Jukedeck’s algorithmic composition system in 2010,[3] and founded the company in 2012.[4] In 2014, Patrick Stobbs left Google to join as co-founder.[2] Stobbs and Newton-Rex had met at the age of eight when they were both choristers in King's College Choir, and they had later been at Cambridge University together. [5][2]
In 2015, Jukedeck launched a website that let people generate original, royalty-free music for use in videos. Users could set parameters including genre, instruments and duration, and specific climactic moments in the music; they could then generate a song in around 20 seconds that they could download for non-commercial or commercial use, with prices ranging from free for personal projects to $199 per song to purchase the copyright.[6][5][7][2][8]
Newton-Rex’s original algorithmic composition program was a rule-based system in which note and chord probabilities were hard-coded.[9] By 2017, this had been replaced with a two-tiered approach, in which artificial neural networks generated musical compositions which were converted to audio using an automated music production program. Music could be generated in a number of genres, from folk to electronica.[5]
The website was used to create over 1 million pieces of music, and brands that used it included Coca-Cola, Google, UKTV, and the Natural History Museum, London.[10] In 2018, Jukedeck’s technology was used to compose the music for K-pop girl group Spica for a performance at a concert at the Blue Square Concert Hall in Seoul.[11][3] Singer Taryn Southern also used Jukedeck to create backing tracks for her songs.[3]
Jukedeck grew to a team of 20 people and raised £2.5M in funding.[8] In 2019, it was acquired by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, for an undisclosed sum.[12][13][14]
Awards
[edit]- Winner of Vator Splash London in 2013.[15]
- Winner of the LeWeb startup competition in 2014.[16]
- Winner of Pitch@Palace in 2015.[17]
- Winner of the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2015.[18][19]
- Winner of an Innovation Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2016.[2]
- Winner of Hottest Media/Entertainment Startup at The Europas in 2017.[20]
- Winner of Startup of the Year at the BIMA Awards in 2017.[21]
References
[edit]- ^ "Bloomberg Business Innovators 2016". bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ a b c d e "Introducing the next generation of music makers". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ a b c "What Will Happen When Machines Write Songs Just as Well as Your Favorite Musician?". motherjones.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Jukedeck's computer composes music at touch of a button". ft.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ a b c "From Jingles to Pop Hits, A.I. Is Music to Some Ears". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Need Music For A Video? Jukedeck's AI Composer Makes Cheap, Custom Soundtracks". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "The AI innovators who are blazing a trail into our future". wired.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ a b "Jukedeck wants to be your band for video soundtracks". thenextweb.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Jukedeck: the software that writes music by itself, note by note". wired.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Robot rock: how AI singstars use machine learning to write harmonies". standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Meet pop's newest star: the song bot". thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "TIKTOK OWNER BYTEDANCE BUYS AI MUSIC COMPANY JUKEDECK". musicbusinessworldwide.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "As TikTok's Music Licensing Reportedly Expires, Owner ByteDance Purchases AI Music Creation Startup JukeDeck". digitalmusicnews.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "An AI-generated music app is now part of the TikTok group". sea.mashable.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Jukedeck wins Vator Splash London!". vator.tv. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Automatic Music Generator Jukedeck Wins Le Web Startup Competition". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Glittering spires and silicon roundabouts". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "Jukedeck wins £30,000 in TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Competition". uktech.news. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 Is… Jukedeck". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "The hottest tech startups of 2017 rocked London at The Europas Awards". sg.finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
- ^ "BIMA AWARDS SETS TONE FOR FUTURE OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS". communicatemagazine.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.