“EMusic, the second largest online music store after iTunes, introduced a new recommendation system on its site late last year. This new system is based on technology from MediaUnbound, one of the larger providers of personalization and recommendation services... (eMusic, by the way, dropped Choicestream as its recommendation service in favor of MediaUnbound)... The recommendations on the site are constantly fine-tuned by your own actions on the site, MediaUnbound's algorithms, and eMusic's editors, which, together with MediaUnbound's high-level teams, constantly evaluate the resulting sets of recommendations.”

“Indie music download subscription service eMusic is getting an overhaul... On Friday, its homepage switched over to a new design centered around a new recommendation engine powered by MediaUnbound. Now, when you sign in as a member, you are presented with a grid of ‘Music You’ll Love’ made up of personalized recommendations. You can also sort by ‘New Arrivals,’ which tries to give you new music that you will like. The MediaUnbound recommendation engine combines both algorithmic and human inputs to try to come up with better recommendations right from the get-go.”

“Some people love to hand out free musical recommendations. MediaUnbound Inc. gets paid to produce its picks. The Cambridge-based company, which began nearly a decade ago out of a Harvard University radio station, creates software to help online retailers determine customer taste in music and videos and make recommendations.” (Download PDF Scan)

“Now, as media consumers rely more on online distribution services, so too do they need — for lack of a better expression — ‘online friends’ to point them in the right direction. This is what MediaUnbound does, utilizing a process that is one-part algorithm and one-part music fan.”

MediaUnbound licenses their unique hybrid technology to create the foundation for ‘My Auto-Mix.’

Napster COO Laura Goldberg explains that MediaUnbound’s “hybrid” technology distinguishes it from the pack.

Colin Wambsgans talks about promoting the Palace Brothers over Squirrel Bait.

MediaUnbound agrees with findings.

“In just half an hour, MediaUnbound managed to convince me to investigate 10 new bands that I never would have heard on the radio.”