Since starting out in 2002, Shazam has become the world’s leading mobile music discovery provider – embedded in tens of millions of handsets worldwide – enabling consumers to experience and share music with others across mobile devices and the internet. With over 50 million customers using Shazam and live in more than 150 countries, Shazam has become a global phenomenon.

The launch pad to their success has been their core music recognition technology that enables anyone with a mobile phone to identify music that is playing – even under noisy conditions – wherever they are, simply by Shazaming it. This clip is run through their database of over 8 million tracks (which extends back to the ’50s) to find an exact fingerprint match.

Shazam is now used in a variety of ways: callers can use it to discover new music and get information about something they haven’t heard before, search for a specific interest, buy a range of music products or simply used as a way of remembering what’s playing so that they can buy it later, or just to create a collection and even pass it on to friends and family.

Shazam supports most of today’s platforms: Android, BlackBerry, BREW, iPhone, J2ME, Symbian and Windows Phone.