Joox
Joox (stylised as JOOX) is a music streaming service owned by Tencent, launched in January 2015. Joox is the biggest music streaming app in Asian markets such as Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and also in South Africa before it was shut down in early 2022. Joox is a freemium service, providing most of its songs free, while some songs are only available for premium users, offered via paid subscriptions or by doing different tasks offered.
Type of site | Music streaming |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Burmese, Indonesian, Malay, Thai |
| Founded | January 2015 |
| Headquarters | |
| Owner | Tencent |
| Industry | Music, podcast, and video |
| URL | www www |
In 2017, Joox launched their service in South Africa, their first non-Asian market which for an unknown reason later shut down five years later. The service now accounts for more than 50% of all music streaming app downloads in their Asian markets. The number of music-streaming users in Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and Indonesia was expected to reach 87 million by 2020.