Joox

For the video link site, see Joox (video streaming).
Joox
Type of site
Music streaming
Available inEnglish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Burmese, Indonesian, Malay, Thai
FoundedJanuary 2015; 9 years ago (2015-01)
Headquarters
Guangdong
OwnerTencent
IndustryMusic, podcast, and video
URLwww.joox.com
www.joox.co.za

Joox (stylised in all caps) is a music streaming service owned by Tencent, launched in January 2015.[1] Joox is the biggest music streaming app in Asian markets such as Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and also in South Africa before it was shut down in early 2022. Joox is a freemium service, providing most of its songs free, while some songs are only available for premium users, offered via paid subscriptions or by doing different tasks offered.[2][3]

In 2017, Joox launched their service in South Africa, their first non-Asian market which for an unknown reason later shut down five years later.[4] The service now accounts for more than 50% of all music streaming app downloads in their Asian markets.[5][6] The number of music-streaming users in Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Indonesia was expected to reach 87 million by 2020.[7]

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  2. ^ "Tencent's JOOX uses curated playlists to dominate music streaming in Southeast Asia · TechNode". TechNode. 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  3. ^ Halim, Billy (2015-12-27). "JOOX : The Complete, Free, & Legal Music Streaming Apps". Medium. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  4. ^ "Meet Joox, South Africa's newest music streaming service - Stuff". Stuff. 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  5. ^ Lee, Emma (December 22, 2016). "[Update] Sanook Online Rebranded To Tencent Thailand". TechNode. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  6. ^ Bundgaard, Karlsson, Lau, Pereira, Tycen, Axel, Alan, Andrew (November 2016). "The beat of progress: The rise of music streaming in Asia". Digital McKinsey. Archived from the original on 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2018-01-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Lin, Liza; Kim, Yun-Hee (2016-12-16). "Apple, Spotify Face Upstart Rival in Streaming Music: China's Tencent". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-01-24.