Type of site | Digital music |
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Available in | English |
Headquarters | U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Owner | MediaLab AI Inc. [1] |
Founder(s) | Marcus Frasier |
Key people |
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Revenue | $2.3 million [2] |
Employees | 10 [2] |
URL |
datpiff |
Registration | Not required |
Users | 15,000,000+ |
Launched | 2005 |
Current status | Active |
DatPiff is an online audio distribution platform that was launched in 2005. It is headquartered in Pennsylvania. [2] It specializes in hip-hop, rap, and urban music. [3] The site was founded in the spring of 2005 by Marcus Frasier. [4] [5] It is owned by MediaLab AI Inc. [6] In April 2023, DatPiff announced that it was undergoing a revision, mainly as result of a major decline in the traffic the website was receiving, as well as copyright issues with many mixtapes on the website. [7]
A key feature of DatPiff is that unregistered users are allowed to download any mixtape uploaded to the site that has been sponsored. Registered users are permitted a limited number of downloads of non-sponsored mixtapes per day. Premium paid users have an unlimited number of downloads of any mixtape. Mixtapes may be streamed by any user. Premium content may also be purchased. [8]
Users can register as either an artist or fan - the key difference being that artists upload their work to the site while fans may only listen to these works.
DatPiff has mobile applications for iOS ( iPhone and iPad), Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, and WebOS.