A Thread for Spotify and other music streaming sites like,, rara.com??

No option for "agender" either!

;)

xp Ha, that's show them!

that'll

jez

I mean the whole reason they have a free service at all is basically to target advertising to generic 'you's, so

spotify users aren't generic though
at the very least advertisers know that they like music -- why not sell them stuff related to that?

Cuz some eyeshadow company gave them money and said "I want x number of women ages y to z to hear this" and they were like "thank you for your money"

yeah i know
it's just lame, that's all

it was both maybelline and cover girl btw

update: i just got the mascara ad again!
i guess this is equal opportunity makeup advertising. i approve of that.

nah, i listen every day and never get make-up ads. i doubt a setting change will make any difference. is it linked to ur facebook acct?

nope

it probably knows from your girly typing then

i bet it just remembers your ad history or something. it's weird, i haven't had any ads for the last hour or so. \o_O/

i'm kinda paranoid about spotify because of the ads they run about themselves... creepy borg-nerd voices against pomplamouse music *shudders*

lol @ girly typing

your indecisive searching and listening habits were flagged by their algorithm as "flighty"

Billboard has been reporting that the current Spotify rates are much higher than some have said. This article says the typical payment is 0.3 cents per stream. For 100,000 listeners each playing a ten-track album ten times (over the course of time), that's $30,000 in payments.

The question for artists is going to be what the standard will be for how much of that money goes to the label. Without manufacturing and distribution costs, labels have significantly lower overhead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/16370352