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Best I'm aware, radios offer unlimited music broadcasting all day long and are doing just fine without subscribers. I've never used Spotify, but if its free, s
by ddebernardy 8y ago
Best I'm aware, radios offer unlimited music broadcasting all day long and are doing just fine without subscribers.
I've never used Spotify, but if its free, supported by ads option means serving web-based stuff, then it might want to look into getting rid of that and serving audio ads every few songs instead. Ad Blockers wouldn't be a problem in that scenario, and Podcasters have long shown that the what essentially amounts to radio ads are a perfectly valid way to monetize audio content.
- dylan604 8y ago> Best I'm aware, radios offer unlimited music broadcasting all day long and are doing just fine without subscribers. Unlimited broadcasting of the same set of songs in rotation that they choose for you. That's supposed to be a huge selling point of the streaming services is to offer a larger selection than what corporate radio limits what's broadcast.
- ddebernardy 8y agoRegardless. If radios can get away with throwing an ad every few songs, why can't Spotify et al?
- dylan604 8y agoBecause my radio playing an ad does not offer the potential for damaging my computer
- ddebernardy 8y agoHow can an audio ad served by Spotify served in between two songs possibly damage your computer?
- dylan604 8y agoHow would an ad blocker affect those ads? Why be obtuse? Ad blockers run in a browser to block ads from the visited website. Those ads have in the past and currently been known to deliver malicious code to the browser. Spotify is threatening to suspend the accounts of someone protecting their system from this attack vector.