Deezer's idea was to give unlimited access to music lovers through streaming technology.
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22 Facts About Deezer
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At the time of its launch in 2007, Deezer had not yet negotiated agreements with major music labels and therefore offered a limited catalogue.
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Deezer introduced mandatory registration in February 2009 to gather more precise data on users, in order to run more targeted ads, and in November 2009 began running audio ads between songs.
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Deezer was launched in France in 2007, where it was the market leader as of 2017.
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On 8 October 2012, Deezer announced that it had received $130 million in funding from Access Industries, to be used for further international expansion.
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CEO Dauchez said that Deezer was looking for a partner to introduce service in the United States, who was "able to provide us with a significant volume of subscribers" to help offset what he called the "unbelievably high" costs of entering the US market.
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In January 2013, Deezer announced its expansion into 22 new countries across Africa, Asia, Brazil, the Middle East, and the United States, bringing its total to 182.
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Samsung and Deezer extended their partnership by offering a six-month, free of charge subscription to Deezer Premium+ for Samsung's Multiroom Wireless Audio Products, including its M5 and M7 line of Multiroom wireless audio speakers.
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In September 2014, Deezer announced Deezer Elite, a new exclusive service made for and in partnership with Sonos.
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Deezer Elite provides CD-quality audio to US users of Sonos Hi-Fi Systems.
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In October 2014, Deezer rolled out a new user interface for its website player.
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In October 2014, Deezer announced that Bose SoundTouch and SoundLink products would now be supported for Deezer Premium+ service.
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In October 2014, Deezer announced that Stitcher Radio would be merging into Deezer.
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In December 2018, Deezer integrated Triton Digital to monetize the free users with programmatic audio ads.
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Deezer pushes banner advertisements for WAZE, even for premium subscribers.
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On 7 November 2019, Deezer released Spleeter, an open-source "audio source separation" utility written in Python that uses the TensorFlow machine learning library and pretrained models for audio stem extraction.
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In September 2020, Deezer joined a number of tech companies in the Coalition for App Fairness led by Epic Games to demand better conditions for the inclusion of their apps in the app stores of Apple and Google.
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In July 2021, Deezer announced that from now on free account users can use Google Assistant speakers to stream music.
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On 19 April 2022, Deezer Free has been discontinued in multiple countries worldwide, which now requires a paid account to listen to music.
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On 5 July 2022, Deezer had its first day on the market as a publicly traded company.
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