{"id":98619,"date":"2021-01-19T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98619"},"modified":"2021-01-19T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:12:08","slug":"jiosaavn","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/jiosaavn\/","title":{"rendered":"JioSaavn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JioSaavn is one of India&#8217;s largest music streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The service was born after music service JioMusic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/spotify-rival-saavn-merges-with-jiomusic-in-1bn-valued-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merged with Saavn<\/a> in a reported $1bn deal in November 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of that merger, JioMusic parent Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/spotify-rival-saavn-merges-with-jiomusic-in-1bn-valued-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquired a stake<\/a> in Saavn worth over $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>JioSaavn is led by its CEO Rishi Malhotra \u2013 who co-founded Saavn in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Saavn was originally called BODVOD Network and specialized in distributing Bollywood records to music services in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JioSaavn was formed after a $1 billion merger for successful service Saavn with JioMusic in 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":60794,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98619","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}