Streaming service Spotify offered three months of premium subscription for $0.99. The promotion is valid until 1 January 2016. Then the subscription price will increase to $9.99 per month.
Spotify offers access to the music directory, video podcasts, personalized radio stations, and the ability to create playlists and share them. At the moment the audience music service is 70 million people, of which 20 million are paid subscribers. Others listen to music free but with ads and low quality.
Spotify is a major competitor to the Apple Music, which offers three months free trial subscription and officially working in Russia and CIS countries. The subscription costs $9.99 (169 rubles per month in Russia) for one users and $14.99 (269 rubles) for six people – so-called “family” plan.
Today, Spotify is completely legal to use for free — it is enough sometimes to listen to the offered advertising. But soon this may change as the company is working on a solution that will allow its performers to choose whether their music is available to users of free accounts.
Spotify negotiates with record companies regarding the introduction of a new rule to start a test, but after that, perhaps on a permanent basis. The purpose of this test is to check whether limiting the number of free music in the service on the sale of subscriptions and the total frequency of use Spoitfy. The company has not decided exactly which artists will be able to take part in testing new rules.
Now all the content in Spotify available to all users, but if you have a paid subscription, you can listen to music offline and without ads. Free version of the service forcing you to listen to songs in random order and with advertising.
