Playlist is connecting the world with music. Our fully licensed, ad-supported streaming service enables social music and generates 10 times the user engagement of other streaming services. On mobile, people spend more time listening to music than any other application and they message most frequently. Playlist combines music and messaging for unprecedented engagement. On Playlist, people follow each other, share playlists, listen together, and chat while listening. Playlist pioneered social music.
Location: United States
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $25M
Investors 4
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Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 15.03.2019 | - | $5M | - |
| 11.11.2008 | - | $20M | - |
Mentions in press and media 24
| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.01.2026 | Playlist And EGYM Agree To Merge In $7.5 Billion Deal With $785 Million In New Equity | Playlist, the newly launched parent brand that houses Mindbody, Booker and ClassPass, and EGYM, a provider of smart fitness equipment, AI-enabled training programs and corporate wellness solutions, said they have signed a definitive agreeme... |
| 20.08.2025 | Personify Health Unveils Evolution of Popular Partner Ecosystem with New Marketplace and Developer Portal to Scale Personalized Experiences | Personify Health is on a mission to make health simple, personal, and engaging. Company launches both Partner Marketplace for simplified search and selection, and new Developer Portal to streamline specialty solution integration with indust... |
| 27.11.2018 | Social music app Playlist lets you listen to music with others in real time | A new app called Playlist aims to make music a more social experience than what’s offered today by the major music platforms like Apple Music, Pandora or Spotify, for example. In Playlist, you can find others who share your musical tastes a... |
| 28.09.2009 | Project Playlist Pushes The Line Between Music Search And Music Hosting | If there is a poster child for the battered Web music startup, Project Playlist is it. The company had to fight lawsuits from the record labels, is still trying to iron out licensing deals with those labels, lost its last CEO Owen van Natta... |
| 22.08.2009 | Your Guide To Music On The Web – Part #1 | I’m a Web fanatic, I admit. But you probably already knew that… My work environment has been completely web based for years now. The same applies to my music. Like many people, I used to download music from Kazaa or eMule (Yeah, I know some... |
| 20.05.2009 | Playlist CFO Mike Sheridan Out | Michael Sheridan has resigned as CFO of music startup Project Playlist, we’ve confirmed. This comes just a couple of weeks after CEO Owen Van Natta resigned to take the top spot at MySpace. Sheridan is a former News Corp. executive and was ... |
| 19.05.2009 | The Record Industry's Failed TotalMusic Project Finds A New Home At Project Playlist | Remember TotalMusic, the failed music initiative created by Sony BMG and UMG that was built from the start with the goal of serving as Facebook’s music platform (and was ultimately rejected by the social network)? Its assets were recently a... |
| 25.03.2009 | A label stops devouring one of its young: EMI licenses music to Project Playlist | Record labels are getting killed by falling compact disc sales while music startups are still figuring out new music business models — so what are labels to do? Sue the startups for as much money, equity, share of profit or other chunk of h... |
| 25.03.2009 | EMI Drops Lawsuit Against Project Playlist, Licenses Catalog Instead | Music search and streaming service Project Playlist may finally be turning the tide in its ongoing battle with the music industry. EMI Music, one of the three major labels which was suing Project Playlist for copyright infringement, dropped... |
| 25.01.2009 | Community Powered Playlists | There are a lot of playlist services on the web these days. Muxtape got shut down, but imeem, playlist.com, and 8tracks are all alive and kicking. And I am sure there a bunch of others too. All of these services let one person create a play... |
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