Bozza Wants To Be Africa's Answer To iTunes, Spotify and Netflix

Mickeycaskill writes: South African startup Bozza has grand ambitions of becoming a trusted platform for pan-African music, video and poetry, with artists keeping 70 percent of revenues. Whereas Netflix and Spotify can deliver high quality streams to users in North America and Europe with superfast fixed and 4G connections, 50 percent of Bozza's traffic comes from feature phones. Data compression technology and transcoding techniques try and keep costs down, while Africa's mobile market is much less app-centric. Bozza founder Emma Kaye explains how she plans to help turn Bozza into a major medium platform.

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Re:Ummm...

[a.koepke]

Wow, I have heard of not reading the article (that is par for the course!), but not even reading the summary?

Whereas Netflix and Spotify can deliver high quality streams to users in North America and Europe with superfast fixed and 4G connections, 50 percent of Bozza's traffic comes from feature phones.

The people who wish to access these services don't have devices that are compatible or have very limited network speeds which aren't sufficient. Bozza is targeting this gap in the market and using various methods to make content available to these basic devices.

Re:I wonder if it will offer international FUCKYOU

[dwywit]

My, what an erudite response. Why deign to descend and partake of discourse with we mere plebeians, when you have such a command of the language?

Re:I wonder if it will offer international access?

[Knuckles]

If I want to listen to hip-hop/rap, I'll listen to a hip-hop/rap station - not one that claims to play african music.

What did you think, that all of African music is beating drums?