Jango

What Jango does

Jango is a privately held online music streaming service that operates a personalized internet radio platform, enabling users to create and share custom radio stations seeded by artist or genre preferences. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York under the legal entity jango.com, Inc., the company serves a global audience across three distribution surfaces: a web platform at jango.com and native iOS and Android applications. The service is delivered free to listeners with no commercial audio interruptions and no registration requirement beyond optional account creation, with content sourced via the YouTube API Services.

The core product is unlimited, ad-free personalized radio. Users can browse curated stations across genres and moods — including Morning Coffee, Rock Legends, Smooth Jazz, Yoga & Meditation, UK Top Hits, and Teen Pop — or seed stations from a chosen artist, then refine output by liking songs, banning tracks, and adjusting variety between mainstream and niche content. The company operates with 51–100 employees and claims millions of listeners worldwide, supported by listener ratings of promoted tracks as a community feedback layer.

Jango's business model combines two revenue streams: third-party display advertising via Google Ads and artist-promotion fees routed through a partnership with RadioAirplay.com, which supplies independent and emerging artists willing to pay for promotional placement on Jango's stations. The Terms of Use reserves the right to introduce paid pricing in the future. No external funding rounds, institutional investors, M&A activity, or leadership changes beyond co-founder/CTO Chris Dowhan are disclosed in the available data.

Name

Jango

Legal name

jango.com, Inc.

Website

https://jango.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Jango is a privately held, free ad-free personalized internet radio service founded in 2007 and based in New York. It serves global individual music listeners via web and mobile apps, monetizing through Google Ads and artist-promotion partnerships with RadioAirplay.com.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Music Streaming

NAICS

Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (516210)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Ad-Supported Music Streaming (Freemium Tiers) (MPAIACAO)

Keywords

• Online music streaming
• Internet radio stations
• Personalized radio service
• Music discovery platform
• Free music streaming

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Free Service (Primary): Currently offers completely free service with no card details required. The service is ad-free from user perspective, supported through artist promotion partnerships and potential future monetization.
2. Advertising (Google Ads): Jango uses Google Ads to display advertisements on the platform. Users may receive customized advertising based on their profile information and music preferences.
3. Artist Promotion Partnership: Partnership with RadioAirplay.com where independent and emerging artists pay to promote their music to Jango listeners. Artists provide demographic data (gender, age) to help promoters target appropriate audiences.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Jango is a free, ad-free online music streaming service that lets users tune into genre- or artist-based internet radio stations and personalize them by liking songs, banning songs, adding artists, and adjusting variety between mainstream and niche tracks. The service is delivered through a web platform (jango.com) and native iOS and Android apps, with content sourced via YouTube API Services.

Product overview

Jango is a single-product free personalized music streaming platform. The core offering is Jango Radio, available via the web platform at jango.com and as native mobile applications for iOS and Android. Users can listen to curated genre-based stations (such as Morning Coffee, Rock Legends, Yoga & Meditation) or create personalized stations based on their preferred artists. The service is monetized through partnerships with RadioAirplay.com (which provides independent and emerging artists) and is ad-free for listeners.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Jango Online Radio (web platform) Free, personalized internet radio streaming service accessible at jango.com without registration or payment details. Users can tune into curated genre- or artist-based stations and personalize their experience by liking songs, banning songs, adding artists, and adjusting the variety of mainstream versus niche tracks.
• Jango Radio (iOS app) Free iOS mobile application that delivers Jango's personalized radio streaming service to iPhone and iPad users, providing on-the-go access to genre- and artist-based stations with the same personalization controls as the web platform.
• Jango Radio (Android app) Free Android mobile application that delivers Jango's personalized radio streaming service to Android device users, providing on-the-go access to genre- and artist-based stations with the same personalization controls as the web platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• Unlimited listening with no commercial interruptions

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• RadioAirplaycoreGTM or Marketing PartnerJango has partnered with RadioAirplay.com, a music promotion service. RadioAirplay provides Jango with independent and emerging artists who want to promote their songs to listeners. Artists pay for promotion services, helping fund Jango's free ad-free model. Jango encourages listeners to rate promoted music, creating a feedback loop for artists.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Deezer: Global freemium music streaming platform with personalized recommendation and radio features. Competes with Jango on the free tier and personalized listening experience, with a much larger catalog.
• Spotify: Global market-leading freemium DSP with both radio and on-demand streaming. Competes with Jango for the same free-tier listener audience, though Spotify offers a vastly larger catalog, podcasts, and exclusive content.

Direct peers

• Last.fm: Music streaming and recommendation service with free ad-supported listening and personalized radio. Comparable to Jango on personalized radio mechanics and music discovery functionality.
• LiveOne (LiveXLive / Slacker Radio): Free and subscription music streaming including Slacker Radio (now LiveOne Radio) — a personalized radio service. Comparable freemium model and curated radio station experience.
• AccuRadio: Free, ad-supported personalized internet radio with hundreds of curated genre/mood channels. Closely matches Jango's free+ad-free positioning and curated station format for niche audiences.
• iHeartRadio: Free, ad-supported internet radio plus live AM/FM station streaming. Highly comparable to Jango in offering free personalized radio to mass-market listeners funded by advertising.
• Pandora: Ad-supported personalized internet radio service that pioneered the artist-seeded station model. Most directly comparable to Jango on product (free radio stations personalized to artist/genre), business model (ad-supported), and target consumer (casual listeners).
• TuneIn: Free streaming service aggregating live radio, news, sports, talk, and music. Directly comparable as a free, ad-supported audio streaming platform with global reach across web and mobile.

Emerging players

• SoundCloud: Streaming platform with a strong independent artist catalog and free listening tier. Comparable to Jango in its indie-artist emphasis and free consumer listening model.

Others

• RadioAirplay: Music promotion service that is Jango's GTM/Revenue partner. Not a competitor but directly comparable as an adjacent revenue source (independent artists paying for promotion) and powers Jango's artist-side monetization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Jango_Radio
• Facebookfacebook.com/jangoradio

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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