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MUSIC STREAMING SERVICE Spotify today announced it was launching a new service, whereby premium users can add five separate accounts to their monthly bill.
“Spotify Family” will be “rolled out” worldwide over the next few weeks, the company said in a statement earlier, but appears to be available as of now in Ireland.
A standard Spotify premium account – which allows offline streaming, unlimited song-skipping and no ads – costs €9.99 a month at present.
The new package would allow up to four additional premium accounts – with separate playlists and preferences – but using the same bill.
Essentially, each additional user will cost you an extra fiver a month, meaning Spotify Family varies from €14.99 for you and one other person, to €29.99 for you and four of your lucky, lucky friends/siblings.
As they point out, this constitutes a 50% discount for each of the additional users.
Today’s major new announcement is clearly an effort to entice more Spotify users to “go premium.”
In May, the company announced they had added an incredible 16 million new users in 2013, bringing their total listeners to 40 million.
Crucially, though, only 10 million of those are paid, premium subscribers.
The prospect of five people (including one very trusting bill-payer) getting together to pay €6 each per month, as opposed to €10 (an annual saving of €48 each), could well change that.
Which could prove particularly important in light of ongoing rumours about a Spotify IPO being imminent some time this autumn.
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They are already talking about using this technology to cure phobias like speaking in public and other more general forms of social anxiety. The possibilities with this technology are immense and positively exciting.
More likely people will use them to escape social situations as we veer further towards a fully virtual society.
Porn, it’s going to be used for porn. Same as the Internet.
FFS get a grip,that was pure shite!
Jasus The Journal has gone downhill if this is considered newsworthy
They’ve always peddled fluff alongside the more pressing issues. Room for them both
Every weekday at 11am we have Take a Break, it’s generally a lighter video like this. We have about 60+ articles a day, so there’s plenty to read that isn’t like this.
Great, now look what you’ve done Cosmo. Hope you’re happy.
Pass no heed aoife you’re doing a sterling job. Snapchat hun?
Yes but not every video with an “Irish Mammy” is funny
I like the Journals work @Aoife. Never mind the bugrudgers! I think it’s a great video. .. shows how accessible it is. The Irish mammy dropping f-bombs is classic!!
Nothing to do with begrudging, it’s just my opinion and many others that it is cringeworthy and not remotely funny. Journal can do much better than this
Yawn
Was expecting more ‘
FFS Filming in portrait !
You’d think they’d make the cameras not record video in portrait by this stage…
Or you would think people would know to record with their phone sideways by now.
Was only a matter of time before these videos arrived.
I wonder what she was watching
It’s the jurassic Park clip. A sleeping bronctosauaus wakes up and comes over to you. It’s really cool
Why is the footage warping at sections around the womans body?
Illuminati and or NWO, with a possibility of lizard people shapeshifting
That’s nearly two minutes of my life wasted. On the plus side, at least she didn’t pepper the entire video with multiple effing and blinding which, unfortunately, one has come to expect from such Irish-made videos. But for gawd’s sake, why can’t the makers of them use landscape mode?
That looked like me coming home from the pub last night.
Have a look at that wine rack in the background, packed!! Bit early in the day to be drinking!
Are those the 30€ dunnes headsets?
Gear VR
That kitchen looks a bit dated!
Billy big balls cause he has an island in his
I think this is an advert…
This pornos great…
Actual scene, -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEKjamS9cTs
Can’t wait to play knockout kings on this so I can finally win a fight.
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