Songza is a free music streaming and recommendation service for internet users in the United States and Canada.
Stating that playlists are created by music experts, this service will recommend users on various playlists based on time and atmosphere or activity. Songza offers playlists for activities such as getting up, exercising, commuting, concentrating, relaxing, entertaining, and sleeping. Users will select the song up or down, and the service will adjust to the user's personal music preferences. Users will find playlists based not only on artists, songs, or genres, but also by themes, interests and eras, such as "The One-Hit 90s" or "Music of Fashion Week".
Songza is headquartered in the Long Island City area of ​​Queens in New York City, New York.
On December 2, 2015, Google announced Songza will be joining Google Play Music on January 31, 2016. Since February 1, 2016, the main website is offline, showing a redirect to Google Play Music.
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History
Amie Street acquired Songza, a product created by Aza Raskin and Scott Robbin, in October 2008. In August 2010, Amie Street was sold to Amazon at an undisclosed amount. Shortly after this co-founder - CEO Elias Roman, COO Peter Asbill, Elliott Breece CPO and CCO Eric Davich - refocused their efforts on Songza. The team stopped the original version and relaunched the new alpha version of Songza, not storing anything from the original product but the name.
Over the next year the founders experimented with various iterations, when the app was originally launched in 2010 "it's like praTurntable.fm.Function called Social Radio allows users to become DJs for their friends" PandoDaily says. This version of the app makes it possible to be social and crowdsourcing; the problem with that is that such a service stands are not quite distinguishable from other services in the market and the quality of playlists are sourced in low crowd. After a year of testing various iterations of the alpha version of the app, Songza relaunched in beta on iPhone and Android app on September 13, 2011, armed with a team of 25 curator music experts.
In March 2012, Songza released the Music Concierge feature, on the iPhone and the web. The concierge presents to users up to six situations based on time, with filters for any mood they face. For example, on Wednesday morning a user might have been presented with situations for "Wake Up", "Singing in the Shower", "Working Out" and so on. This feature was launched to iPad on June 7, 2012; during the first ten days after the launch of the iPad app, Songza saw over 1.15 million downloads.
On June 12, 2012, Songza is listed as the top free app on iTunes for iPad and the number two free app for iPhone. Concierge was released on Android on July 10, 2012, and for Android tablets on August 14, 2012. The app was expanded to Canada on August 7, 2012, and became the number one free overall app in Canada on August 13, 2012. In the week of developer Build Microsoft event in June 2013, Songza slipped in the official Windows 8 App.
Songza was launched in Canada on August 7, 2012, and reached one million downloads after 70 days.
Starting in October 2013, Songza started plugging in pop-up audio/video ads when starting the playlist so that it no longer "free audio-ads". Songza reported having 5.5 million regular users by the end of 2013.
Songza was acquired by Google on July 1, 2014. No terms were disclosed but speculation set the price somewhere between $ 15 million and $ 39 million. The two companies issued a statement saying they were "happy" to agree. In October 2014, after the acquisition, the Google Play Music All Access service was updated to include the functionality adapted from the Songza Concierge system.
Songza merged into Google Play Music on January 31, 2016 and began February 1, 2016, the main offline site, showing a redirect to Google Play Music.
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References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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