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Last.fm postpones international fees
In a blog post today, the company explains that it hasn't been able to make enough money from advertising in each country where the service is offered to support the service. Last.fm is holding off on charging subscription fees until it makes a few changes including the ability for users to purchase gift subscriptions for friends and pay for transactions using services other than Paypal.
[via Mashable]
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Subscribe to commentsDboGMar 30th 2009 2:57PM
Interesting article, but also wanted to give props for using the Mike Doughty as the example!
step21Mar 30th 2009 5:45PM
well, I'm just glad that they won't totally shut it off to international users, (I'm looking at you pandora)
kirby145Mar 30th 2009 7:27PM
Personally I'm more a fan of imeem. I got sick of last.fm when it started giving me "oops! error connecting." which the staff said they didn't know how to fix.
For users on last.fm, just use a proxy, problem solved.
Otherwise I recommend imeem because it has better playlists and more songs anyway as far as I know.
whiskeyMar 31st 2009 7:37AM
THANKS Last.fm!!!
Tips for you (if you read this):
Contact with local advertising agencies, offer them your ad packages, have the ads somewhere on a server, download them in parallel to the music (less bandwidth to the ad, more to the music), serve the songs and then an ad or two. I will be more than willing to hear one ad or two every once in a while rather than not hearing music at all. Keep the ads at my computer if you will, i would even let you use p2p so the ad serving bandwidth doesn't hit you that hard.