Personalized podcast platform
“Majelan” official website
Recently, the French startup “ Majelan ” has received another € 6 million in financing from existing investors Idinvest Partners fund and new investor Bpifrance investment. The funding from this round of financing is used to continue to develop its personalized podcast platform and expand its international influence.
Mathieu Gallet is the former CEO of Radio France, and he co-founded “Majelan” with Arthur Perticoz, co-founder of startup Wynd.
The “Majelan” platform was launched in June 2019, providing users with a new listening experience based on discovering and editing content. It also provides about thirty minutes of original programming, including documentaries, novels, interviews, personal development content, and more.
“Majelan” Co-founder and CEO Mathieu Gallet said, Podcasts are becoming more popular in France, with more than 4 million people every month Listening to music in France, an increase of 25% over last year. Podcasts The market is more developed in United States , and 73 million Americans use podcasts every month.
“Ma”jelan” official website
Unlike many other podcast platforms, “Majelan” is not just for a specific audience, but a one-stop platform for service software such as Netflix and Spotify, which provides audio content to listeners.
Mathieu Gallet said that users using the “Majelan” platform can say that is a 99.99% free experience. “Majelan” is a content aggregator, an RSS feed aggregator.
Majelan uses a subscription-based model, which includes an application that provides a summary of podcasts. The platform also has premium content with exclusive content, which costs 4.99 Euros per month.
Majelan is a paid subscription service, not an ad-based service model. When using “Majelan”, no banner or audio ads will appear.
Like Spotify and Netflix, Majelan uses algorithms to provide each user with personalized listening suggestions based on their past listening experience. Majelan also collects data from podcast creators and provides users with emoji during the podcast.
“Majelan” and third-party content creators can use user response data to adjust their listening preferences, and “Majelan” says they do not intend to monetize the data.
In June 2019, “Majelan” debuted with a library of 280,000 audio series, for a total of 13 million episodes, and is available in 15 languages in 50 countries.