Ditto Plus Music Platform Guide
Jump to: Streaming & Download Platforms Social Media Platforms Copyright Protection Commercial Music Delivery Performing Rights Organizations Streaming & Download Platforms Spotify Spotify offers on-demand music streaming through its app. Users can choose either a free ad-funded version or a subscription option for ad-free listening. Services: Music Streaming Region: Worldwide Users: 200 million + Apple […]
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Spotify
Spotify offers on-demand music streaming through its app. Users can choose either a free ad-funded version or a subscription option for ad-free listening.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Users: 200 million +
Apple Music
Apple Music is a premium music streaming platform with two subscription tiers, individual for one account and family for up to six. Apple Music does not offer a free ad-supported tier but does offer free trials for new users.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Users: 60 million +
iTunes
One of the world’s biggest and most iconic online music stores, iTunes is used by millions of music fans to purchase, download and listen to their favourite tracks.
Services: Music Downloads
Region: Worldwide
Users: 100 million +
Amazon Music
Amazon has one of the world’s most popular music stores, comprising Prime Music & Amazon Music Unlimited, where users from across the globe can browse songs and artists, download tracks and listen with offline playback.
Services: Music Streaming, Music Downloads
Region: Worldwide
Users: 10 million +
Deezer
Deezer is a subscription-based on-demand music service with millions of users worldwide, on which music fans can listen to ad-free music both online and offline.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Users: 14 million +
Google Play
Google Play Music is an online music store, providing users with a la carte track and album downloads, alongside music streaming, playlist creation and offline playback on an ad-free subscription basis.
Services: Music Streaming, Music Downloads
Region: Worldwide
Users: 15 million +
Tidal
Tidal is a subscription-based music streaming platform created by artists for artists, offering users high fidelity or lossless sound quality, HD music videos and curated editorial content.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Users: 3 million +
Napster
Napster is a music subscription service, formerly known as Rhapsody, on which users can stream ad-free music from any device and receive new recommendations, as well as download tracks to listen offline.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Shazam
Shazam is a mobile app that recognizes music through digital audio fingerprints. Users can discover new tracks and listen to them using the app’s partner services.
Services: Music Recognition
Region: Worldwide
Users: 100 million +
Youtube Music
YouTube Music is a streaming service developed by YouTube, allowing users to browse & discover tracks, albums, artists, playlists and videos based on trends & tastes.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Users: 15 million +
Beatport
Beatport is the world’s leading music store for DJs and electronic music fans, with millions of users downloading tracks and listening to both new and classic dance and house music.
Services: Electronic Music Downloads & Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Juno Download
Juno is a major online independent dance and electronic music store, on which users can browse the latest charts and stream samples of tracks before purchasing them as downloads.
Services: Electronic Music Downloads & Streaming
Region: Worldwide
7Digital
7Digital is an online music store with an easy-to-use download service. The platform also sub-delivers music to a large network of other stores including Onkyo, Weyv, Soundtrack Your Brand, Electric Jukebox and more. Learn more about the 7Digital network on their website here.
Services: Music Downloads
Region: Worldwide
Rdio
One of the largest online jukeboxes, with 20 million tracks all playable directly on a user’s phone.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Pandora
One of the largest Internet radio providers with millions of active users. Pandora is available to music fans in the US, Australia and New Zealand.
Services: Internet Radio, Music Streaming
Region: USA, Australia, New Zealand
Users: 70 million +
iHeart Radio
iHeart Radio features live radio stations, where users can create their own artist radio with over 15 million songs and thousands of shows and personalities to stream.
Services: Internet Radio, Music Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Slacker Radio
Slacker Radio is an online music streaming service available in the USA and Canada, with both free ad-supported and paid ad-free tiers.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: USA & Canada
Bleep
Bleep is an online independent record store and download service, showcasing music from independent artists and labels.
Services: Music Downloads, Music Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Akazoo
Akazoo is a social media integrated music streaming service. Users can purchase a subscription for unlimited access to discover new music, share tracks, follow artists and create personalised playlists.
Services: Music Streaming, Social Media Integration
Region: Worldwide
Wimp
Wimp is a paid, ad-free music streaming service available in Scandinavia, Germany and Poland, focusing on inspiring users to find both new music and old classics.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Scandinavia, Germany, Poland
KKbox
KKBox is a streaming platform that targets the Asian market, focusing on regions like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, etc. Listeners can access millions of songs via smartphones, TV, computer and other media centres.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Asia
Saavn
Saavn is one of India’s most popular music services. It is available to users in English as well as 10 Indian regional languages.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: India
Users: 100 million +
Yandex
Yandex is one of the leading music streaming services in Russia, with millions of users across the country.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Russia
Users: 20 million +
AWA
AWA is a popular Japanese music streaming service that automatically analyzes preferences and suggests music to users.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Japan
Anghami Music
Anghami was the first music streaming service of its kind in the Middle East & North Africa and has quickly become one of the region’s most popular music platforms.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Users: 20 million +
Claro Música
Claro Música is a widely-used music streaming platform available across South America in countries including Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and more.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: South America
Users: 5 million +
Netease Cloud Music
One of the largest streaming music streaming platforms in China with a library of over 10 million songs and hundreds of millions of users.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: China
Users: 300 million +
Xiami
Xiami is the music store of Alibaba and is one of the largest music platforms in China.
Services: Music Downloads, Music Streaming
Region: China
Users: 14 million +
Tencent
Tencent Music delivers content to China’s biggest music platforms including QQ Music, Kugou, Kuwo and more, which between them have over a billion users. See the full list of Tencent Music platforms on their website here.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: China
Users: 1 billion +
Music Island
Music Island delivers music to many of Korea’s most popular music platforms including Melon, Bugs Music, Genie, Naver Music, Mnet and more. You can the full list of Music Island platforms here.
Services: Content delivery
Region: South Korea
Users: 50 million +
Boomplay
Boompay Music is one of Africa’s most-used music streaming services, offering both free and paid subscriptions and features including offline playback.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Africa
Users: 44 million +
Simfy Africa
Simfy Africa is an African music streaming platforms providing users with access to millions of songs from artists worldwide.
Services: Music Streaming
Region: Africa
Mixbank
MixBank platform focusses on electronic music and is designed to facilitate the marketplace between DJs, rights holders, and music services.
Services: Electronic Music Streaming
Region: Worldwide
Social Media Platforms
Facebook
Releasing tracks to Facebook allows music to be monetized when it’s used in other user’s content and block copyright infringement across the platform.
Services: Music monetization, Copyright protection
Region: Worldwide
Users: 2 billion +
Instagram
Music is delivered to Instagram via its parent company Facebook. Once on the platform, music will be available for ‘Music in Stories’, which allows Instagram users to easily add tracks to their posts.
Services: Music in Stories
Region: Worldwide
Users: 1 billion +
United Media Agency
United Media Agency delivers music to the biggest social media networks across Russia including VK and Odnoklassniki.
Services: Content delivery
Region: Russia
VK
VK is a Russian social media platform where users can listen to music, create playlists and share tracks with others by attaching them to messages and wall posts.
Services: Social Media, Music Streaming
Region: Russia
Users: 300 million +
Odnoklassiki
Odnoklassniki is a social media and music streaming service used by millions of people across Russia and eastern Europe.
Services: Social Media, Music Streaming
Region: Eastern Europe
Users: 200 million +
Copyright Protection
Youtube Content ID
YouTube Content ID is a digital fingerprinting system developed by Google which is used to identify, manage and protect content from copyright infringement on YouTube.
Services: Copyright Protection
Region: Worldwide
Soundcloud Content ID
Soundcloud is one of the world’s most-used music streaming platforms, offering both free streaming and paid subscription options for users. The platform’s Content ID system protects music from copyright infringement across the platform.
Services: Music Streaming, Copyright Protection
Region: Worldwide
Audible Magic
Audible Magic is a content recognition service designed to protect copyright infringement across a range of online platforms and services. Learn more about Audible Magics content recognition service on their website here.
Services: Content Recognition, Copyright Protection
Region: Worldwide
Commercial Music Delivery
AMI
AMI is a music network and customer engagement platform, providing music content for tens of thousands of commercial businesses across the USA.
Services: Commercial music delivery
Region: USA
Medianet
Medianet is a leading digital service provider that back-ends branded music stores for other companies to provide to their users. You can find the full list of Medianet platforms here.
Services: Music Downloads, Streaming & Internet Radio
Region: USA, Canada, UK
Nightlife Music
Nightlife Music provides music for businesses, gyms, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs & retail outlets across Australia.
Services: Commercial music delivery
Region: Australia
Qsic
Qsic is a commercial music streaming service with built-in AI providing music for businesses and venues.
Services: Commercial music delivery
Region: Australia & New Zealand
Touchtunes
Touchtunes delivers music to interactive music systems and jukeboxes in over 65,000 bars, restaurants and other social venues across North America.
Services: Commercial music delivery
Region: USA & Canada
Stellar Entertainment
Stellar Entertainment delivers music to in-flight entertainment systems and is used by airlines all over the world.
Services: Commercial music delivery
Region: Worldwide
Performing Rights Organisations
Sound Exchange
SoundExchange is a digital performance rights organization. It is the sole organization designated by the U.S. Congress to collect and distribute digital performance royalties for sound recordings.
Services: Performing rights organization
Region: USA
PPL
PPL is a performance rights organization in UK responsible for collecting and distributing digital performance royalties for sound recordings.
Services: Performing rights organization
Region: UK