{"id":122846,"date":"2024-08-28T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/airtel-to-shut-down-wynk-music-app-absorb-all-employees\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:00:30","slug":"airtel-to-shut-down-wynk-music-app-absorb-all-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/28\/airtel-to-shut-down-wynk-music-app-absorb-all-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel to Shut Down Wynk Music App, Absorb All Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/wynk_music_airtel_1660226675398.jpg?fit=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Airtel to Shut Down Wynk Music App, Absorb All Employees\" title=\"Airtel to Shut Down Wynk Music App, Absorb All Employees\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bharti Airtel will exit from music vertical and shut down its Wynk Music app, according to sources.The information was confirmed by an Airtel spokesperson a few hours after the company announced entering into a strategic partnership with iPhone maker Apple for video and music streaming. The company will absorb all Wynk Music employees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/airtel\">Airtel<\/a>\u00a0is planning to close <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/wynk-music\">Wynk Music<\/a>\u00a0in the next couple of months. It will absorb all the employees into the company,&#8221; a source told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the Airtel spokesperson confirmed the development.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel launched Wynk Music app in 2014 and has an estimated subscriber count of over 100 million.<br \/>&#8220;We can confirm that we will sunset Wynk Music and all Wynk music employees will be absorbed within the Airtel ecosystem,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The company has entered into an agreement with <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/apple\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0to provide access to\u00a0<a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/apple-music\">Apple Music<\/a> with special offers to its customers who use <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Airtel users will have access to Apple Music. Additionally, Wynk Premium users will receive exclusive offers from Airtel for Apple,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Airtel said it announced that Apple TV+ &#8212; the video content platform from Apple &#8212; will be accessible through its video streaming platform Xstream and Apple Music for Wynk Music premium users later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Airtel will provide special offers on Apple Music to its customers who use iPhone.<br \/>Airtel&#8217;s business-to-customer portfolio comprising Airtel Wynk, Airtel Thanks, and Xtream has over 220 million active users.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/telecom\/news\/airtel-to-shut-down-wynk-music-app-absorb-employees-6434915#rss-gadgets-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel will exit from music vertical and shut down its Wynk Music app, according to sources.The information was confirmed by an Airtel spokesperson a few hours after the company announced entering into a strategic partnership with iPhone maker Apple for video and music streaming. The company will absorb all Wynk Music employees. &#8220;Airtel\u00a0is planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/wynk_music_airtel_1660226675398.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[99769,4582,99766,1330,62293,20306,5395,1224,15012,99768,99767],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122848,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122846\/revisions\/122848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}