Breaking: Airtel to Discontinue Wynk Music Streaming Service

About 25% of Airtel Digital totalling to about 100 employees- the part of Airtel which houses IQ, Wynk, XStream, Ads and other new digital incubations have been silently told their roles have been made redundant. Includes product , engineering and design resources. All new incubations such as Airtel Video IQ and Gaming are being closed. Some have managed to find other roles within the main Telco part of Airtel, but most leaving. Culture has become toxic, and Airtel is doing this silently with no severance except the 1 or 2 month notice period. HR providing zero support except threatening people to resign.

Was listening to Punjabi songs yesterday for around 2-3 hours, 1.5GB data khtm hogya. Also, nothing was running in the background It didn't happen in the past, weird??

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Spotify being one of the most loved brands has come down to this, and no wonder! We've seen popular brands being poorly rated en masse as part of agenda driven boycott campaigns, but what we see here is more of a genuine disappointment with the product by its users with its recent update. Assuming someone on the Product side decided to rip off all the features of a basic music player to drive growth in the form of paid subscriptions, Growth additionally will also have to handle the poor Playstore ratings as the outcome. What do you think should Spotify start doing from here? Not asking from a user's perspective (I know we all want free music without their annoying ads) but from a business perspective.

Being a founder myself I am confused about these happenings. We have companies like Wynk Music, Gaana, etc. which were quite humongous names but there sudden stop like this is making me feel queasy. I understand few of the startups like Zomato, Ola, Nykaa, etc. are doing good but there are thousands of small startups closing every year and now big ones too. I just want to understand that is there a huge fault line that I am not seeing or is there any other reason altogether?

The rock only gets bottomer for spotify free users 😭 spotify wrapped you’ll be missed 👍🏼 I was honestly okay with the ads, but this was my last straw lol

First, they had a layoff. Lot of good people quit including great people Then, they had a second lay off Some great people in the leadership quit. Middle management people are quitting every day. Only engineers and other people who are not able to get jobs are remaining They shut down majority of US acquisitions They are trying to sell some of them like Tynkr and Epic Not able to raise funding till now even though trying since December Sales is down 90% New Inside Sales process is not working They are out of runway.