Deezer
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| Type of business | Private |
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| Available in | 180+ countries |
| Founded |
Paris, France 2007 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
| Founder(s) | Daniel Marhely Jonathan Benassaya |
| Key people | Hans-Holger Albrecht (CEO) Simon Baldeyrou (CFO) |
| Industry | Music, podcast, and video |
| Services | Music streaming |
| Slogan(s) | Listen, discover, and take your music anywhere. |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 1172 (January 2017[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 16+ million members 6+ million paying members |
| Current status | Active |
| Native client(s) on | Web, Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows Phone, Symbian |
Deezer is an Internet-based music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels including EMI, Sony, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group on various devices online or offline. Created in Paris, France, Deezer currently has 40 million licensed tracks in its library, over 30,000 radio channels, 16 million monthly active users, and 6million paid subscribers as of 29 Jan 2017 The service is available for Web, Android, Kindle Fire HDX, OS X, BlackBerry, iOS, Windows Phone and Symbian.
In 2006, Daniel Marhely developed the first version of Deezer, called Blogmusik, in Paris. Its idea was to give unlimited access to music lovers through streaming technology.
The site in its original incarnation was charged with copyright infringement by French agency SACEM, and after being shut down in April 2007 was relaunched as Deezer in August, having reached an agreement with SACEM to pay copyright holders with revenue from advertising on the site and by giving users the ability to download songs streamed on Deezer from iTunes, with Deezer receiving a commission from each purchase.
At the time of its launch in 2007, Deezer had not yet negotiated agreements with major music labels and therefore offered a limited catalogue. It took more than two years for agreements to be signed with the four largest labels, as well as various smaller ones, but by 2011 the company had rights to about eight million songs. During August 2007, its first month of operations, Deezer saw about 773,000 visitors to its site, with traffic increasing rapidly in the next several years—2.75 million people used the service in May 2008, and there were seven million users by December 2009.
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