Digital Stores

Wallace & Gromit

New online store launched for Wallace & Gromit

December 9th, 2009

Exclusive Beatles USB launched

Recordstore launches Exclusive Beatles USB

December 9th, 2009

Hot Chip

Hot Chip ticket store launched for EMI.

November 2nd, 2009

Hot Chip

Hot Chip ticket store launched for EMI.

November 2nd, 2009

Rudy Tamabala

Rudy Tambala joins Digital Stores as Non-Exec director.

October 30th, 2009

George Harrison

New online store launched for George Harrison.

September 17th, 2009

The Beatles

New website and integrated online store launched for The Beatles.

September 9th, 2009

New Commercial Director

Simon Coates has been promoted to the newly created position of commercial director at Digital Stores.

Simon, who joined Digital Stores from HMV, moves into a more senior - and broader - role, in which he is responsible for a number of major areas, including managing the senior store management and marketing staff, senior client relationship management, strategic input, digital strategy and securing new income streams.

My Recordstore

Recordstore.co.uk is to give customers their own page on its website, as it looks to create a "virtual coffee bar" effect online. Set to launch in beta before the end of the year, the company's My Recordstore initiative will aim to bring the online store under control of its customers.

As such, My Recordstore will give consumers their own fully-customisable page on the Recordstore.co.uk site, allowing them to add their personal selection of apps, widgets, images and videos. Each customer will also have their own blog and there will be subtle cues to purchase, such as special offers and top 10s. Product director Simon Coates explains that the idea is to encourage customers to visit Recordstore.co.uk as often as possible.

Product director Simon Coates explains that the idea is to encourage customers to visit Recordstore.co.uk as often as possible. "The intention is that customers make their own page on Recordstore.co.uk, using it as their home page they have got bookmarked when they go to check their messages and check their Facebook page," he says. "From that, the intention is to build a community inside Recordstore.co.uk."

Coates admits that the idea is similar to HMV's Get Closer social networking initiative but says that the My Recordstore idea will be more democratic. Initially, My Recordstore will be open only to the Peoples Democracy of Recordstore - a 25,000-strong group of customers who the company polls on subjects such as how the Recordstore site looks - and they will be asked their opinions on how My Recordstore should evolve. "Because of that they will have more ownership and it will build more customer loyalty," Coates explains. Should the Peoples Democracy give the new initiative the thumbs up, it will then roll out to the general public in 2010.

Coates says that the idea of My Recordstore was inspired by the recent Recordstore Survival Guide that he authored, which includes a three-part plan to try and put a brake on closures among music retailers. "There are so many similarities between online and offline," he says. "My number one aim is to get as many people onto Recordstore as I can. To do that I want them to feel at home at this destination where they can hang out, like a virtual coffee bar."

June 23rd, 2009

The Recordstore Survival Guide

Following his panel appearance at the Great Escape Festival in Brighton, Digital Stores' Product Director Simon Coates has put together a survival guide for record shops. The panel discussed the future of physical music retail, and this inspired Simon to put together a list of tips for high street stores who are feeling the pinch. Click here to get the Survival Guide in pdf format

June 23rd, 2009

UFC online store launched

European online store launched for the sporting phenomenon Ultimate Fighting Championship

June 12th, 2009

Oasis launch new online store

Brand new online store launched for OASIS including new Merchandise range

June 5th, 2009

Exclusive Placebo Ticket Pre-sale launch

Exclusive Placebo Ticket Pre-sale launched today for Placebo's December tour

May 27th, 2009

CEO, appointed to the board of the Official Charts Company

May 18, 2009

Russel Coultart CEO of Digital Stores, appointed to the board of the Official Charts Company

Placebo launch brand new online store

May 13, 2009

Placebo launch brand new online store, powered by Digital Stores, to coincide with the launch of their new website, selling a wide range of official Placebo merchandise and music.