The Echo Nest
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Music |
| Founder | Tristan Jehan Brian Whitman |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Tristan Jehan (co-Founder & CTO) Brian Whitman (co-Founder & CTO) Jim Lucchese (CEO) |
| Products | Music intelligence platform |
| Parent | Spotify |
| Website | the.echonest.com |
The Echo Nest is a music intelligence and data platform for developers and media companies. Owned by Spotify since 2014, the company is based in Somerville, MA. The Echo Nest began as a research spin-off from the MIT Media Lab to understand the audio and textual content of recorded music. Its creators intended it to perform music identification, recommendation, playlist creation, audio fingerprinting, and analysis for consumers and developers.