Case Flowd

Flowd brings together some of the hottest trends within the media space at the moment; social media, location based services and social commerce. A service like Flowd is in high demand within the music industry, both to alleviate the daily activities of an active artist as well as to drive increased “Fan ARPU”.

Flowd in a nutshell

  • Flowd is the music artist’s Swiss-Army pocket knife for social media efforts
  • Through the service, artists can manage their whole social footprint from one mobile application and create engaging mobile offers and competitions
  • Flowd also provides an intimate environment for the fan-artist relationship, where true superfans can connect on a personal level with their favorite artist

Flowd brings together some of the hottest trends within the media space at the moment; social media, location based services and social commerce. A service like Flowd is in high demand within the music industry, both to alleviate the daily activities of an active artist as well as to drive increased “Fan ARPU”. As a result, a number of high profile artists and labels have been actively using the platform: Sony Music / Britney Spears, Armada Music / Armin van Buuren, Warner Music, UNKLE and many more.

Flowd being “The Music Lovers’ Social Network” - What exactly does it mean?

For fans it means that when their favorite artist is on Flowd, they can connect with the artist closer than on other social media. The fan can ‘check-in’ to the artist’s gigs using Flowd, get news before others, listen to the music and take part in promotions not available elsewhere. Fans can also connect with their friends on Flowd, as well as find new friends that like the same type of music. Flowd brings together like minded people, with similar interests in terms of music.

And for artists, Flowd brings a long list of social media features, with which they can reward the most active fans and build closer relationships with these. Flowd could be categorized as a mobile loyalty program for the music industry, of sorts. Flowd’s Frequent Fans program facilitates a lot of cool promotion opportunities for artists (see here) and Flowd allows for in-app branding, deepening the connection between fan and artist.

If you want to take Flowd out for a test-ride yourself; you can do so on your Nokia, iPhone or Android phone – or directly on the web: flowd.com.

Contact Us

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Mika Myllymäki
Head of Telecom industry
Tel.+358 40 868 2536
mika.myllymaki@digia.com
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What has the industry said about Flowd? 

Mashable The social media guide
…this is a clever idea and could be extremely popular with music lovers.

Macworld

…unlike certain music-based social network – we’re looking at you, Ping-independent and signed artists alike are both welcome to join.

MSN
It strikes me as being a great way for up and coming acts to build up their fan base too, a sort of mobile equivalent to MySpace. When it used to be good.

Technology used in the solution

  • Native Android, iPhone and Nokia (Symbian 3 & MeeGo) applications
  • REST / Web services API, WebSockets
  • Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL DB, Redis
  • Hosted and operated in Amazon cloud
  • Scalable server architecture
  • Integration: Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, etc
  • Reporting and analytics: inhouse infrastructure
  • Development process: Agile / Scrum
  • Product IPR fully owned by Digia Plc