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 platform will create a station to play music from similar artists. Users can further refine their stations by rating songs (thumbs down or up) and artists in their feed to play less or more frequently. There's no need to create accounts to do these features, but those who do so will only be interrupted by adverts once a day. Users can ban or add artists, choose whether they want it to play popular songs, more obscure music, or something in between the two.
In 2007, Jango became the first music streaming platform to introduce a social networking aspect to radio stations. Users can share their stations or listen to stations created by others in the Jango social network.
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. This feature is called Jango Airplay, band and solo artists alike can buy 1,000 plays for as little as $30.
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.
Based in New York City, Jango was launched in November 2007 by Daniel Kaufman and Chris Dowhan, who were previously the founders of Dash.com.
Video Jango (website)
See also
- List of online music databases
- List of social networking websites
- List of Internet radio stations
Maps Jango (website)
References
External links
- Official website
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