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Spotify’s freemium model comes good

Dave Parrack — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:46:16 +0000

Spotify continues to go from strength to strength. Proving its freemium model is the correct one for the business.

Spotify has now racked up more than 3 million subscribers. It hit 1 million in March 2011, 2 million in September 2011, and [...] Related posts:

Purdue’s new medical sensor is powered by rap music

Susan Wilson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:24:24 +0000

How many times have pulled up to a light and felt your [...] Related posts:

Megaupload chiefs to defend legal action

John Lister — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:59:02 +0000

The operators of major filesharing website Megaupload say they’ll defend themselves against criminal charges. Their lawyer plans to argue that not only do the charges themselves not hold up, but the enforced closure of the site before trial is a [...] Related posts:

Digital music outsells physical music in 2011 sales, but there’s a bigger story…

Dave Parrack — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:56:26 +0000

The switch from physical music formats to digital is complete, with the latter beating out the former in 2011 for the first time ever.

As reported by CNN, in 2011 digital music [...] Related posts:

How much would you pay for Spotify?

Dave Parrack — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:53:47 +0000

I’m currently paying £5-per-month to listen to almost all the songs in the world for free and without advertising whenever I want to. That’s an absolute bargain by anyone’s definition of the word. I’d pay more for Spotify. Would [...] Related posts:

Spotify Apps ups Spotify addictiveness

Dave Parrack — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:59:52 +0000

Spotify today revealed its latest plans to take over the world. And while I was skeptical at first, I now think they may be on to something.

I admit to having been a little disappointed by what was revealed. At least [...] Related posts:

2.5 million now paying to use Spotify

Dave Parrack — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:16:42 +0000

Spotify has hit a new milestone in its aim to turn users into subscribers, with 2.5 million people now paying to use the service.

I’ve been a big fan of Spotify since it first launched in the U.K. [...] Related posts:

In what direction is Spotify headed next?

Dave Parrack — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:16:49 +0000

I rather like the direction Spotify is currently headed in. That is, creating a global service for people to discover and listen to music without turning to piracy. But Spotify looks set to change course.

Spotify has announced [...] Related posts:

Indie labels: ‘Keep music special, eff Spotify’

Ronald O Carlson — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:04:32 +0000

It’s been repeated ad naseum that Spotify isn’t iTunes. No one knows that better than the independent labels that increasingly dominate the creation and distribution of music. That said, pay forever music isn’t paying the bills for indies and provides little if any long term value for users.

VentureBeat reports that the [...] Related posts:

238 record labels abandon Spotify, Rdio, etc. – ignoring the big picture

Dave Parrack — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:50:59 +0000

Well done, STHoldings, well done. You’ve just withdrawn from the future in order to try and hold onto the past. Good work.

According to Wired, 238 small record labels attached to STHoldings, have [...] Related posts: