Article category: Industry News
Blind Tiger: Bucking the Trend
Blind Tiger inns was formed in 2017 and started with 10 pubs, made up of Star Pubs leases and private leases. Over the past 5 and a half years the group has grown steadily, sitting now with 17 pubs in the North West. Chris Tulloch, the Managing Director of Blind Tiger, has been in and…
Get the Vibe with the TouchTunes Festival Playlist
With Glastonbury taking place this week, kicking off the UK summer festival season, the team at TouchTunes/Soundnet have launched their free festival anthems playlist incorporating popular headliners. It’s an eclectic line-up at Glastonbury headed by 80-yea-old Sir Paul McCartney, with fellow industry veterans Fleetwood Mac and Robert Plant, bringing the retro vibe. At the other…
Jubilee Gives Royal Boost to Jukes
The recent Queen’s Platinum Jubilee saw a massive 22% upturn in jukebox revenues, says leading supplier TouchTunes/Soundnet. “This is extra cash in the jukebox compared to the previous weeks,” says TouchTunes/Soundnet’s Toby Hoyte. “It is a great result and even better than we had anticipated.” TouchTunes created a dedicated Jubilee playlist for its digital jukebox…
Interview: Toby Hoyte on Park Avenue Open Day
There was good response to Park Avenue’s return last week. What were the highlights from your perspective? It is always good to see customers and colleagues from the trade and the event was very well organised. I would have liked to have seen more customers from the retail sector there of course. It seemed as…
Tempo – The TouchTunes Tool You Can’t be Without
Smart operators are finding that their Tempo online management tool can save them time and money in reducing unnecessary site visits to manage their jukebox estate. “Tempo allows operators to make changes remotely to their jukeboxes, so they don’t need to send an engineer to site every time, which is costly in time and fuel….
Jubilee Playlist for Patriotic Pubs
In honour of the upcoming Platinum Jubilee, Soundnet has created a free special Venue Favourite update with songs that celebrate the Queen’s long-standing reign of 70 years. The tracks include patriotic British songs, celebratory songs, and hits from 1952, the year of the Queen’s accession to the throne. These include: Royal Choral Society – ‘God…
Carl Adams – the Jukebox Guru
With every jukebox that TouchTunes sells, there is a bonus feature added at no extra cost. That bonus is Carl Adams, International Technical Service Representative – who will help new customers with their first install, troubleshoot any issues down the line and carry out on-site training to help staff and their customers to get…
Karen Sarosi Joins TouchTunes/Soundnet
Karen Sarosi, who is well known and liked by many in the industry, has started the New Year with a new job as Sales Manager at TouchTunes/Soundnet. Her duties will include promoting and selling TouchTunes and Soundnet products and upgrades working alongside Toby Hoyte. She will be the main source of contact for customer…
Make Older Better With the V5
The call of the new is strong, particularly in a trend-led business such as ours. However, the costs of producing and shipping new machines is rising steadily. COVID and Brexit, higher energy bills, fewer HGV drivers, inflation – there’s a myriad of reasons why the cost of buying a new machine is going up….
Hopes are high for sustaining growth well into 2022, says Toby Hoyte
Published in Coinslot December 2021 Coinslot: A year that opened in lockdown, staggered through to reopening, via a supply chain crisis and ending with Omicron: how will you look back on 2021? Toby Hoyte: I think everyone had to accept that we will be working with this situation for a long time to come. There was…