{"id":4039,"date":"2011-07-14T15:41:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2011-07-14T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T14:41:44","slug":"spotify-goes-all-stars-and-stripes-as-it-attempts-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/spotify-goes-all-stars-and-stripes-as-it-attempts-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify goes all stars and stripes as it attempts America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spotify.com\/uk\/blog\/archives\/2011\/07\/14\/hello-america-spotify-here\/\">Spotify hits the US<\/a>. Over in Europe their route was &quot;free&quot; then &quot;premium&quot; which really meant pay for the version on your mobile. Over in the US it&#8217;s going to be different. $5 \/month to get going or $10\/month for the premium model (which has the smartphone capability) &#8211; plus some free accounts in the lucky dip of Web 2.0 services like Klout &#8211; mimicking the rush for invites and promoting Spotify online as people beg for invites.<\/p>\n<p>And of course Spotify has some entrenched opposition and the music labels in the US aren&#8217;t as friendly as they were in Europe. How will this work out? I don&#8217;t know, but the cynic in me says that the US won&#8217;t appreciate a European start-up coming over and telling it how to listen to music online. Grab your popcorn, this could get interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify hits the US. Over in Europe their route was &quot;free&quot; then &quot;premium&quot; which really meant pay for the version on your mobile. Over in the US it&#8217;s going to be different. $5 \/month to get going or $10\/month for the premium model (which has the smartphone capability) &#8211; plus some free accounts in the lucky dip of Web 2.0 services like Klout &#8211; mimicking the rush for invites and promoting Spotify online as people beg for invites. And of course Spotify has some entrenched opposition and the music labels in the US aren&#8217;t as friendly as they were in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,112],"tags":[1866,2645,808,515],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-web-20-news","tag-launch","tag-pandora","tag-spotify","tag-us","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-139","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}