Jango (website)
 | It has been suggested that Daniel Kaufman (businessman) be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since April 2015. |
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Type of site | Internet radio / social networking / educational |
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| Available in | English, Spanish |
| Created by | Daniel Kaufman, Chris Dowhan, Mattias Stanghed, Johan Sandstrom, Josh Engroff, Matt Knox, Steve Eddy |
| URL | http://www.jango.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
Jango is a free online music streaming service that allows users to create and share custom radio stations. Users choose artists to stream, and the station plays music from similar artists.[2] Users can further refine their stations by rating songs and artists in their feed to play less or more frequently.[3]
The service also incorporates social networking by “matching” users with listeners that have similar musical preferences.[4] Users can share their stations or listen to stations created by others in the Jango social network.[3]
The site also provides independent artists the opportunity, for a fee, to showcase their music by recommending their songs alongside that of similar popular artists.[5]
Jango’s business model is derived from advertising revenues and transaction fees from selling music through the site. There is currently no premium services available for the site.[5][6]
Based in New York City, Jango was launched in November 2007[2] by CEO Daniel Kaufman and CTO Chris Dowhan, who were previously the founders of Dash.com.[5][7][8]
Features
- Customizable stations - type in the artist you want to hear - your station will play the music you want along with similar artists
- Recommendations based on user's rated songs and artists allowing music discovery
- Variety setting includes "Play popular", "Play variety" and "Most variety"
- Add more artists to a station
- Android App / iPhone App
- Unlimited Skips
- "Radio Airplay" paid promotion service that gives emerging artists airplay on Jango's stations
Limits
- Playback, fast forward, and rewind are not possible.
- Play-on-demand is not possible.
- Banner ads
- Cannot exclude artists, only individual songs.
- Cannot remove an artist once it is added to a station
- Can only add up to six artists to a station
- FAQ out of date
- Can only add up to 100 song to "Favorite Songs" list
See also
References
- ^ "Alexa". ALEXA. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
- ^ a b [1] Retrieved 2012-09-12
- ^ a b Jango: Refreshingly Simple Radio CNET, December 18, 2007
- ^ Jango PCWorld, February 27, 2008
- ^ a b c Jango AppAppeal, June 23, 2009
- ^ Jango and Seeqpod Hope to Monetize Music GigaOm, January 9, 2008
- ^ Dash.com Named Best Shopping Tool By TIME Digital PRNewswire, November 3, 1999
- ^ Dot-Coms Retain Kanda Software to Rapidly Develop and Deploy New E-commerce Solutions PRNewswire, August 7, 2000