Akazoo S.A. announced a global strategic partnership with Rakuten Viber. The strategic partnership will enable Viber users to access, listen to and share music, playlists, stations and lyrics from Akazoo through the popular messaging platform. The innovative global partnership will enable direct access to Akazoo's global music streaming service through Viber's network of more than one billion users, worldwide. Viber users will be able to search, access, play, and jointly listen to music playlists, stations, curated by Akazoo's proprietary and patented Sonic Artificial intelligence (AI) engine, and participate in live listening rooms. Access will be available "in-app," directly from within Viber messenger and will be offered as an extension of the core chat functionality. The parties have agreed to launch the partnership in 17 countries and have agreed to an exclusive co-promotion of the in-app music integration. The goal of the collaboration is to inspire a joint music listening experience in a social and real-time context. It also paves the way for popular messaging platforms and social media to offer music entertainment content to their users via Akazoo music streaming for messaging and social media, a targeted offering enabling direct in-app access to music entertainment content for partners to drive increased engagement and revenue growth.