The story
Djtunes.com GmbH was established in Gelsenkirchen, Germany by Thimo U. Seidel, Dr. Achim Illner, Timo Becker and Marc N. Grotholtmann in 2005. The first version of Djtunes was launched in 2006.
This year the company received an investment from High-Tech Gründerfonds.
The company began as an online Dance music store. In 2007 the company moved its headquarters to Bochum, Germany, where it launched Djtunes 2.0 and replaced its predecessor. The second version of the site included community and social network features.
In 2008 the start-up company won two further investors: the MP3 co-inventor Professor Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg and BM-T beteiligungsmanagement Thüringen GmbH branch office was founded in the neighbourhood of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) inside the TU Ilmenau campus to promote technologically based product innovations.
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In September 2009 the company launched its own affiliate program, allowing publishers to market the Djtunes content and earn commission.
In February 2013 Feiyr, an online music and ebook distributor, adopts Djtunes. Feiyr is a subsidiary of Dance All Day GmbH, founded by its CEO Armin Wirth. Since then a lot of new features and improvements have been realized at Djtunes for example a new download process which is much more simple as well as a new generated search engine.
Market position
Among the top download sites for electronic music, alongside Beatport and DJDownload, Djtunes ranks as Germany's and one of Europe's leading download platforms for special musical interest.
From Wikipedia’s article on Djtunes, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3