The Akazoo platform is a cutting-edge platform that merges content and social networking into one compelling experience.
Music Store
At the core of Akazoo lies a music store capable of concurrently serving rich content with metadata aggregation to millions of users.
The content delivery network supports both http progressive downloads and media streaming for content distribution to users, through all widely adopted channels (HTML5, Flash, Android and iOS) in multiple music formats and bit rates. Our technology ensures that end-users never experience latency, despite the exponential growth of activity and content.
Personal Cloud Library & Streaming
In Akazoo, each user is given access to a cloud-based personal library of purchased or individually generated content.
With a state-of-the-art download management module cooperating with the content delivery network, these items can be streamed or downloaded to any device used to access Akazoo.
Search Functions
Akazoo offers its users an intelligent search process.
While searching for what the user requested, a dynamic context-aware algorithm performs real-time parallel searches to discover similar music, based on a mix of criteria such as artist, genre, popularity etc. The final search results present these recommendations to the user to drive new music discovery.
Messaging Module
To establish their social presence, Akazoo users are equipped with advanced communication options:
Users can see the online status of their friends and chat online or offline, or use account credits to redirect messages directly to their mobile phone.
Social Relationship Network
Akazoo facilitates the creation of a true social relationship network.
Every user has a media-rich profile and multiple ways of establishing connections with other community members (becoming friends and sharing music preferences) and directly interacting (sending online or offline messages, SMS, recommendations and music gifting). Integration with Facebook allows for transferring a user’s online identity and contacts, along with publishing a newsfeed of Akazoo activity onto Facebook. Deep user profiling allows for acute segment targeting and managing campaigns in real-time, via a web-based interface designed for ease of use and secure administrative access.
Multi-Community Support
The platform is designed in a way that enables the launch of branded communities that share content and user activity with the main Akazoo service.
Local communities are also supported and handled in the most efficient way. And Akazoo allows for white-label communities as an already ‘established’ base of users is ready to welcome new members.
User Administration
A community with countless intertwined relationships and transactions cannot always keep interactions healthy without a powerful administration module.
On Akazoo, prompt management of user activity is achieved through moderation and helpdesk functions, as well as a feedback channel with reporting options. Content management and multiple-criteria policies are also provided.
Billing & Credit System
An intelligent cross-channel user credit and billing system enables the creation of multiple monetization paths.
Every user account is associated with an Akazoo credits account that can be topped-up through any means convenient to the user, including credit cards, PayPal, MO/MT billing and WAP URL billing. A subscription management module provides the options of single click, once-off or recurring billing and sets the framework for more complex billing schemes that may be required.
