- UK music streaming service to disclose offers with Sky, LG and Samsung
- ROXi permits customers to play tunes and music movies by way of sensible TVs
Backer: Superstar Kylie Minogue
A British music streaming service backed by Kylie Minogue, Simon Cowell and veteran non-public fairness baron Guy Hands is ready to announce tie-ups with a few of the world’s greatest corporations this week.
The enterprise’s many different well-heeled backers embrace singer Sheryl Crow and Strictly Come Dancing winner Alesha Dixon.
ROXi plans to disclose offers with Sky, LG and Samsung throughout a convention in Las Vegas, trade sources informed The Mail on Sunday.
The firm presents a streaming service that permits customers to play tunes and music movies by way of sensible TVs related to the web. Smart televisions can be utilized to play your alternative of tens of hundreds of thousands of songs. Users can even watch the unique video or one made by ROXi.
The firm is known to have been valued at £100 million in a current funding spherical.
ROXi presents a subscription service in addition to a free-to-use app that features adverts.
It is aiming to develop into the Netflix of Music on the idea that sensible TVs will be rivals to units such because the Amazon Echo and different sensible audio system.
ROXi was arrange by entrepreneur Rob Lewis, who based a music firm known as Omnifone within the early 2000s earlier than promoting it to Apple.
Lewis stated: ‘We’re dedicated to turning the TV right into a substitute for the sensible speaker or Amazon Echo. We imagine TVs ought to be the centre of dwelling leisure. We cannot additional focus on companions, however there shall be an announcement this week.’