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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
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