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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The one truth about Gaana is that it has been built for advertisers to advertise. Why is it then that they are staying away?
Editor's note: Gaana has received good press, again. If you aren’t familiar with the company, Gaana is the oldest music streaming enterprise in the country. Incubated by Times Internet, which is owned by Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd, one of the largest media companies in India, with a presence in print, television, radio and digital. BCCL is best known as the publisher of The Times of India, the largest selling English language newspaper in the country. Last week, in a piece in The Wall Street Journal, Gaana claimed it has 152 million monthly active users, or MAUs. The metric refers to the total number of unique visitors who have visited a website or an app in the last month. It is popularly put out by content and social media companies to highlight the number of users who are actively using the service. Most social media companies, in particular, talk about MAUs first and revenue later. Gaana has increasingly been chatty about its MAUs. After all, 152 million active users is not a small number. Roughly the population of Western Europe or about …
FY26 numbers show that Airtel is stealing a march on its larger rival on most counts and is unrelenting in its ambition, casting a cloud on Jio’s valuation.
Telecom and retail both continue with their ‘hit and miss’, while O2C delivers an unsurprisingly poor performance in Q4. This is a year RIL will be glad to see the back of.
The homegrown social startup is betting big on India’s latest content obsession—minute-long episodes of high-stakes dramas. Cut through the noise and the microdrama hype itself doesn’t add up.
