A
Andy Meek
Guest
- A new Spotify premium subscription service may be in the works, based on surveys the streamer has apparently been sending out to users through the music streaming app.
- Spotify users have been queried on their interest in a possible Spotify subscription offering focused on podcasts. For a monthly fee, users would get exclusive and original shows, early episodes -- but no music.
- Spotify cautions that this potential product should not be considered official or on the way just yet.
Since Spotify is going full steam ahead into original and exclusive podcast series as a way to further differentiate itself from rival services like Apple Music, you had to expect something like this would come to fruition eventually. The Swedish-based music streamer has started sending out surveys asking people for their thoughts on a possible podcast-focused Spotify premium subscription offering, whereby you'd pay a monthly fee to get access to the streamer's exclusive podcast content.
Andrew Wallenstein, the president of Variety's Intelligence Platform, was one of those people who got the survey through the Spotify app and tweeted it out to his followers. Basically, several different potential podcast subscription tiers are suggested in this survey, which solicits feedback. The prices would range from $3 to $8 per month.
Continue reading...
Today's Top Deals
- 5 early Black Friday deals that are so good, Amazon must be losing money
- This is the single best-selling deal on Amazon’s whole site
- The US is running out of N95 masks – get these instead for under $2
Trending Right Now:
- $6,000 stimulus checks could be coming – the only question now is when
- A deadly bacteria is sweeping along the East Coast
- Apple’s most groundbreaking product of 2020 is still to come – and its key feature just leaked
This new subscription service could help Spotify crush Apple Music originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 6 Nov 2020 at 19:05:01 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Via BRG - Boy Genius Report