Again?
15 years after its establishment, all the original Winamp employees have ended long ago (most of them moved to other Silicon Valley, to a large extent in the technology and music sectors), and the product was now more without Franklk more than it. The base of its user continues to stagnate as competitors like RDIO, Spotify and Pandora – they say nothing about iTunes, which he sold last year for it 15 billion songsHe reached prosperity.
but Geno YuhmThe Director of Winamp says since October 2008 that Winamp will continue to do a good job, especially in the emerging markets where Apple has not been penetrated as well.
“ITunes is the number one, and we are the number of two.” “There is a lot of value in the Winamp brand, the media player next to you.”
Winamp says it includes about 30 million users all over the world (designed based on COMSCORE), with less than a million in the United States. The company also started targeting specific platforms (Iqra: Android) instead of specific markets. Winamp has reported that since Android was launched by Winamp in October 2010, it has seen more than 19 million installation. Can it rise and sleep again?
“We are thinking [buying Winamp] Josh Filser, a former CEO of Spor, said the current project capitalist, who said that he and other investors tried to buy Winnab from AOL in 2003. someone It is still possible to take advantage of all these capabilities.
“Winnab has started a social thing in music,” he said, rejecting the music that is now sharing Spotify on Facebook. “This is just seeing what people listen to. This does not feel well.”
“[Winamp] He had a very distinct and surprising society, and this is a valuable society for many people. This will be a big thing to understand. What is the collection of features that we can attach to making them more important again? I don’t have. I must be serious about it. “
But he confessed, no important steps were taken in terms of talking to AOL about the possible acquisition.
Although the idea of starting this basis [of an existing community and a history] “I didn’t give her more than five minutes,” he said.