The Paris Page Progresses

The Paris community has been rapidly expanding and the coolest music trendsetters are sharing their favorite tunes from Paris throughout the world. We’ve been very happy with the response so far, and our awesome intern Guillaume has been up to some serious rethinking of the way that we present you, our wonderful community. 

So we encourage you to check out the Paris page and click around to see what’s new, like the new cards for people, genre tags, and the idea to feature 3 playlists per day, resolving the issues of attaching too many playlists at one time with no description! The design will continue to develop, but we’ve come a long way! 

Let us know what you think! Send us your ideas for improvements to tony at whyd dot com and of course let us know which cities we should come to next! 

Goodies: Drive People To Your Whyd Profile AND We Will Feature You!

Are you a blogger? Trendy magazine? Music digger? Or just have a couple of other websites floating around the web? Do you want to help people find your musical personality and listen to your playlists?

A very effective way to do this is to use the goodies from your Whyd page, which are the elements that you can add to your sites to help people get to your profile. There are different size buttons (to match your site’s style) which will give you a specific HTML code to copy and paste. 

Once you’ve done this, send us the link to your website and we will feature it across our social networks! 

If you have any questions, we are available all the time at tony at whyd dot com. 

Paris: We Want Your Music — Whyd Paris Live Today

This post, written by our co-founder Gilles, explains everything you need to know about what Whyd is trying to do. 

Two years ago, I remember having a discussion around a coffee with fellow music diggers in Paris about the way we are used to discover and share songs today: music is everywhere but fragmented on many platforms like Youtube, SoundCloud, MP3 blogs etc…We didn’t have a place to gather and share all of our discoveries.

Our team of 5 music lovers — Including a DJ, pianist and epic drummer- started working on a simple and straightforward bookmarking tool to collect tracks from the different music platforms.

The prototype initially launched for a small group of 25 music diggers gained adoption in the vibrant Paris electronic community. 1,000 people joined the beta during the summer, while we were improving the tool. The amount of quality music shared everyday was amazing.

We started understanding how the power of community was going to revolutionize the way we discover music in the streaming era.

The launch of the Paris City Stream is a strong step forward in our mission: Empowering music communities to bring amazing music discovery to the world.

It’s not only a symbol but a tribute to the local Paris community who started the movement: bloggers, DJs, singers, concert venues, magazines, labels and all of the music lovers who come to Whyd everyday to share the tracks and playlists that move them. These guys are shaping the present and future of the Paris music scene. We want to amplify their voices.

For music listeners it also offers a fantastic new way to discover new songs and playlists. Push the “Start Listening” button and enjoy an endless stream of good music.

Whyd is now a growing community of 50 000 music lovers finding the best of the newest music everyday in 100+ countries around the world.

Paris is the starting point of our action. World, we want to hear your music.

Never stop jamming

Everyone Welcome Guillaume!

When the team split and we began our quest for world domination, we were feeling a little lonely with just half the team in Paris. So we decided to bring in some help, to develop the city pages, improve the experience of the Whyd community, and help us with the all-important growth hacking. His name is Guillaume, and he is a music lover.

He claims to love all music, and this is certainly a theory that we will test, but he is most passionate about 80’s funk, ripping off a list of artists and groups that we’ve never heard of before, which solicited a lot of respect, and intrigue. 

Guillaume will be here with us until June 20th, so make sure that you subscribe to him on Whyd for what is promising to be some very, very cool jams. 

From the Whyd team: Welcome Guillaume! Never stop jamming.

April Fools Day Joke: A Chance To Reaffirm Our Mission

Yesterday’s post nailed it: we pranked the community and said that starting today Whyd would be a $20/month subscription. We scared some people, which means that the April Fools joke totally worked. 

Of course, those who know us saw immediately that we were playing around, Whyd is not going to become some expensive platform for the rich, Whyd is about sharing music, no matter which platform you use, no matter where you are in the world. Music is universal, and so is Whyd. 

As we’ve said over and over again, Whyd is a community, brought together by our common love. Our mission is to create a world wide soundsystem featuring the best of the newest music and the coolest music lovers around. We’re thankful that we’ve already come so far, and we can’t wait to see where we will all go next. 

Never stop jamming

Whyd Paris: Coming Soon (OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY APRIL 24th)

Paris has long been one of the world’s cultural centers. From the Pagans who flogged witches on the marshy banks of the Seine to the philosophers and impressionists of the Left Bank to the music collectives of 2014, Paris has never followed. 

It is appropriate, then, that Paris, our sweet home, leads the Whyd community with our innovative approach of promoting our community to mainstream audiences. Whyd’s Parisien selectors are sharing some of the best music, no matter where it is coming from in the world. 

So, on April 24th, we will celebrate the launch of the Official Whyd Paris page, a place uniquely suited to give you the pulse of the music scene here, putting forward our trendiest music lovers and giving everyone a window of access into this whirlwind of sounds rotating around the Eiffel Tower. 

If you’re here in Paris, you’re invited to the official Launch Party at Le Dandy, organized in collaboration with our buddies at Bathroom, Thursday, April 24th. Tony will be cooking all day to bring you some delicious bites to eat, and of course, we have much to toast, so bring your drinking hats, and never stop jamming! 

Whyd Inc. The Next Chapter Begins

After being selected to head to SxSW by Ubifrance a few weeks ago, our two co-founders continued their westward trajectory, making it all the way to the graceful Pacific ocean and the hippy sounds of San Francisco. 

It is here that the Whyd story divides and conquers, and we are very excited to announce that Whyd Inc. has been officially created in the United States! 

Part of the dream of any international tech entrepreneur is to end up rubbing soldiers with the Silicon elite — bumping into icons and sharing enthusiastic midnight conversations with the other people who are trying to change the world — and we look forward to meeting everyone we can as our journey continues forward.

It is an honor that we are able to represent you, our wonderful community, not just from our humble Paris incubator but from sea to shining sea. Thank you as always to everyone who supports us, contributes to our jamming, and gives us a reason to keep doing what we do. 

Always jamming, now across the world. 

500,000 Tracks Added

January has been absolutely enormous for us here at Whyd, with an overwhelming international response to the opening of the platform, new team members, a big infusion of investment, and massive growth. Last week, we passed an important milestone, one that makes us take a moment to pause and reflect:

Last week, we passed 500,000 tracks added to Whyd. This is roughly the equivalent of 3.32 years of music, which is pretty good since we’ve only been around as a music service for less than two years.

For this, we deeply thank our wonderful community of music lovers whose pursuit to never stop jamming has been nothing short of wonderful music to our ears.

We love you!  

Damien joins the Whyd Team

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Welcome to the Whyd family Damien! What a strong addition to the team! Damien is the man who will bring us the mobile app we have all been dreaming of. 

Damien is currently based in San Francisco but it’s only a matter of time before the Whyd team joins him.

We’re so excited to have you with us. Gonna be an exciting ride.

Never stop jamming!

We’re Open: The New Era Of Whyd Begins

Today is a big day, and a big deal. We’re extremely excited and happy, with gigantic smiles on our faces and big hopes for the future. If you can’t already tell, Whyd is a little bit different.

We are so very, very, very proud to announce that Whyd has raised $700K of seed investment, to allow us to expand the team and power forward into the future to connect music lovers from all over the world and to help you organize the best of the newest music you find on the web. 

And as of right now, Whyd is no longer an invite-only community, we have opened to larger audiences to connect them to you and your music, and to help them share their favorite music with you too. We welcome all of our new community members with open arms, and we would like to take a moment to thank everyone who has joined us over the past year and a half. Your support has ben critical, and it is thanks to your advice and help that we were able to raise this money and continue our mission. We are doing this together, and your roles will only become more important as we continue.

So keep sending us emails, keep suggesting things, keep telling us when things don’t work, keep coming to our events, keep pushing us to be better, and most importantly, never stop jamming.