Deezer

Deezer is a French music rental service that provides streaming of music, podcasts and video to users in more than 180 countries worldwide. Based in Paris since its 2007 founding, the company has been a subsidiary of Access Industries since 2016. Deezer is available via web (deezer.com) and a number of digital platforms, including Android, iOS, macOS and others. History In 2006, Daniel Marhely developed the first version of Deezer, called Blogmusik. The site in its original incarnation was charged with copyright infringement by French agency SACEM and shut down in April 2007. It was relaunched as Deezer in August 2007, 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. Launch 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 its first month of operations, Deezer's website had about 773,000 visitors, and traffic increased rapidly in the next several years. By May 2008, 2.75 million people used the service each month, and there were seven million users by December 2009.