Founded by digital music veterans from Apple Music, Google Play, Beats Music, and Rhapsody, Gimme (www.gimmeradio.com), builds interactive audio and video experiences for the most passionate music fans who want more than just a digital stream and an algorithm.
By providing a powerful suite of engagement and discovery features Gimme is able to build global communities of the most valuable music listeners. These communities are highly effective at identifying, engaging, and retaining fans; and Gimme has multiple revenue channels to maximize monetization of these users (digital and physical subscriptions, virtual tipping, ecommerce, ticketing).
Because Gimme creates highly engaged communities it is the perfect music experience for artists and brands looking to build meaningful relationships with their fans. That’s why Gimme has had over 1,000 artists and tastemakers participate as hosts to Gimme’s online radio and video programming. They handpick every track, video, movie that is played and provide the stories and context to create a truly unique listening and viewing experience. These hosts communicate directly with the users in a live, interactive chat, further strengthening the bond between fans and artists.
Gimme is engineered to scale to unlimited genres, subgenres, artists and brands. To date it has communities in the metal and country genres, and includes 5 audio streams, and 2 video streams. Gimme is trusted by artists like Megadeth, Lamb of God, Jesse Dayton as well as industry leaders like wholly owned subsidiary of SONY music, The Orchard, and Concord Music.
Gimme Radio started product development in January 2017 and launched a global 24/7 metal music community on June 27, 2017 and an Americana/country community in the summer of 2019. In December of 2020, Gimme launched video streaming channels for both genres. Gimme Metal and Gimme Country are Available on iOS, Android and on the web.