Gaana is all hype

The one truth about Gaana is that it has been built for advertisers to advertise. Why is it then that they are staying away?

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 …

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Ashish K. Mishra

Ashish is the editor-in-chief of The Morning Context. One of the best-known business feature writers in India, he was selected for Germany’s Robert Bosch Stiftung Fellowship in 2012 and received the Mumbai Press Club RedInk certificate of recognition in 2015 for his story “Inside the Network 18 takeover”. Before joining The Morning Context, Ashish co-founded The Ken, where he was managing editor. His previous writing stints include Mint, Forbes India and The Economic Times.

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Harveen Ahluwalia

Harveen is a co-founder at The Morning Context, and leads our Internet coverage, overseeing a team of reporters writing on startups and tech. She has previously worked as a media, consumer and tech reporter at The Ken and Mint. At The Morning Context, she writes on startups, venture capital, consumer and media businesses—from e-commerce to healthtech to streaming.

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