{"id":1635,"date":"2006-08-29T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T09:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/08\/ad_funded_free\/"},"modified":"2006-08-29T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T09:25:46","slug":"ad_funded_free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/ad_funded_free\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad Funded Free Downloads?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So how is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiralfrog.com\">SprialFrog<\/a> going to make money exactly? According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/b194883e-36b2-11db-89d6-0000779e2340.html\">piece<\/a> in today&#8217;s FT (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/b194883e-36b2-11db-89d6-0000779e2340.html\">read it quick<\/a> before it costs you), Universal Music is backing the service which will offer free downloads based on users experiencing ads. Unless we&#8217;re going to have to watch a whole series of ads, I can&#8217;t see how the books will be balanced.<br \/>\nI assume the resulting music will be DRM&#8217;d which means they must be Windows Media files (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/08\/28\/microsoft-already-on-their-way-to-patching-fairuse4wm\/\">shhh<\/a>). The service doesn&#8217;t start until December so no doubt all will be revealed then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how is SprialFrog going to make money exactly? According to a piece in today&#8217;s FT (read it quick before it costs you), Universal Music is backing the service which will offer free downloads based on users experiencing ads. Unless we&#8217;re going to have to watch a whole series of ads, I can&#8217;t see how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}