The more people that you follow, the smarter these suggestions will become. To the right of your news feed, you will find a few suggested People to Follow. Especially for anyone who is already familiar with social networking sites and/or sites like Sound Cloud. The site, overall, is very intuitive and easy to use. However, it is music-based and an audio streaming app, so when you click into profiles, you will find a list of playable audio which is very reminiscent of Sound Cloud. What I mean by this, is that Mix Cloud employs a gentle blue and white theme with a very prominent news feed at the front and center of all activity on the site. Let’s see … how can I most accurately describe Mix Cloud’s site design … hm … I think it is probably best depicted as a sort of cross between Sound Cloud and Facebook. Mix Cloud doesn’t seem to show any signs of slowing down either. And in October of 2017, Mix Cloud signed a licensing deal with Warner Music – for those of you in the know about the music industry, then you are already aware: this is no small feat. Within just five years, Mix Cloud was able to generate over 3 million active users, along with 500,000 users who were registered through Facebook. Shortly thereafter, developers Sam Cooke and Mat Clayton were added to the team. The founders of Mix Cloud, Nico Perez and Nikhil Shah met on campus at the University of Cambridge. Mix Cloud began as a lean startup, as it is called, in 2008. For now, let’s explore how Mix Cloud came to be. But we’ll get deeper into all that Mix Cloud enables a little later on. Mix Cloud made it possible, though, for anyone, anywhere to not only tune into independent radio shows from anywhere around the world, but to broadcast their own as well. The problem with radio programs of the past were the fact that you were limited to only a couple based on your locality. Well, Mix Cloud saved what was a dying art form – in the radio show format – and gave it a place to flourish. Perhaps you would turn on a familiar voice to accompany you on your way to work in the morning? Maybe you came to admire certain radio personalities. Maybe you remember listening to FM radio shows. The site I’m talking about, of course, is Mix Cloud – a British streaming service that managed to find a new and interesting angle in the world of music streaming services. A site that goes beyond mere streams of songs and albums and offers a fresh spin on an old relic of radio. Just when you think that everything’s been done before, luckily, you stumble upon a new site that is doing something completely different in the music space. They allow the listener to create customizable radio stations, tailored to a users’ own unique taste and interests.īut even these kinds of contemporary spins on the traditional radio model are growing tired by now, as we work our way into 2020.

Examples of this would include iHeart Radio or Pandora. And others have taken elements of the radio listening experience and embellished or improved upon them, making the most of them in the modern age. Some people have attempted to do this rather literally, by merely offering a live stream of local radio stations. One avenue that people have tried to take in order to accomplish this is by attempting to bring radio into the digital age. Or, at the very least, you have to somehow do it in a way it’s never been done before. Nowadays, if you want to make a music streaming app, you need to have some kind of unique edge, you have to be doing something that nobody else has done before. It is not enough to simply stream songs anymore. With new music streaming services being released all the time, it can be rather difficult for one to truly differentiate itself from the masses … to stand out as a unique and necessary service.

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