Tag: spiralfrog
Will SpiralFrog's million users help it beat its streaming rivals?
There’s been a fair amount of negative publicity about ad-supported music download service SpiralFrog in the last year, focusing on its launch delays and financial losses. But the company at last has some good news to report.
Opinion: Ad-supported music downloads hit all the wrong notes
Stuart Dredge writes…
The music biz is an industry in search of a viable business model right now. Figures released by the IFPI earlier this week showed that while legal music downloads rose 85% last year, that growth was outweighed by an 11% drop in physical CD sales – meaning that overall, global music revenues fell by 5%, which represents more than a billion dollars less than in 2005.
Problems for SpiralFrog ad-supported music service
If you were looking forward to trousering free tunes in return for listening to a few adverts… well, you might have to wait a bit longer. SpiralFrog, which was due to launch late last year, has reportedly run into problems….
