99p
I'm pretty sure the promo was 3 months for 99p. At least that's what I paid (and cancelled straight away).
Spotify says it now has 15 million subscribers, up five million from last May, having added 2.5 million paying punters in the Christmas period alone. It also claims to have 35 million users on its free ad-supported version. Spotify launched a new “family plan” in October, allowing two household members to subscribe for £17.99 …
Yes, Spotify were really pushing that one, presumably so they can say "we have x million paying customers" without adding the subscript "and y million will be churning away when we apply a 15x price hike".
Still, to Spotify's credit, at least they've stopped the insane "new users can only sign up using their Facebook account" which they were set on when I last looked at their offering.
I have tried netflix twice now and cancelled it twice.
Spotify does "just work"
You can install it on any number of devices you own, you can download for offline play (dodgy signal area) They have a decent catalogue, although not 100% complete it is pretty damn good.
It is a solution that works for the customer, not the producer.
Music royalties and TV/Film royalties are calculated differently.
With Spotify, royalty is paid every time the song is played.
With films/tv, Netflix etc. pay a fixed fee to show the film an unlimited number of times for X weeks/months.
Both of these are standard for the industry.
Surprisingly, it's not an Americanism.
It simply refers to the recommendation that the bird is turned over halfway through to ensure the bottom and breast are evenly browned.
Obviously there is a presumption that the bird is properly oiled and the degree of browning is a matter of taste but sometimes you should just be grateful for what has been put in front of you.
That actually started out as a food/cookery joke but somehow ended up somewhere else entirely...
You are right. 0.99 total (not per month) for three months. Three people signed up in my house, all of which will revert to free membership within the three months.
I can't help thinking Spotify are going to lose most of those new members by April, and more in a year's time when those who forgot to cancel within 3 months decide to do so.
I am sure they are not stupid and know this is how many people work, but I wonder how many they reckon they will keep from this promotion.
These companies don't have a business without the content. I robot banned Google Image Bot last year and it is quite instructive to see a blank page when you do a site:john_lilburne.com on Google Image Search and 1000s of images when you do the same thing on Bing.
And yes I know that Bing is as bad as Google but lets deal with one group of arseholes at a time.
Personally I choose to torrent a new CD, have a listen and delete it, if I think it's worth it then I'll buy the album legitimately. That way I pay the artsists for what I actually listen to and avoid paying for the rubbish.
I seem to find a lot of artists who create fantastic first albums, then have some ass of an overpaid producer totally ruin their second album by trying to make it comercially successful. I've been bitten too many times on that one.
Isn't the problem that you favour musicians or a genre that is a bit hit and miss?
I've bought 5 CDs this week. None of which I've listened to first, and only 2 have I heard the artists before, and although I have plenty of opportunity to sample the tracks. I'd much rather listen to the entire thing with the CD case in hand. I doubt I'll be disappointed.