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MySpace Music Introducing 30-Second Audio Ads

2 years ago by Adam Morrison | February 9, 2010 11:39 am

MySpace Music, a joint venture between News Corp. and major recording companies, is experimenting with audio ads that must play before users can listen to free, streaming music.

AP reports that the 30-second ads began appearing last week and that MySpace Music wants to boost the frequency of such ads before settling on how often they’ll be running.

The ads won’t necessarily play before every single song—if they did, I imagine that would get kind of irritating when listening to a full album.

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MySpace may not have a chance to dominate social networking, but I think it’s worth them focusing on being a dominant force in the world of streaming music. If I were them, I’d make sure that I was making as much money as possible from it as long as it didn’t have a negative effect on the customer experience.

I can’t imagine any users getting too upset about this, because there are already many sites/services that have something similar in place and I don’t think such ads are a big inconvenience.

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  • Gerald lambert
    February 11, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    I hardly ever look at the ads and they irritate me whin I want to listen to music. I think what myspace should do is to have the ability of someone listening and wants to download the song, they get .10 for every song downloaded from there sight. So If I’m using myspace and clicj on a persons somg and want to here more, I click on the cd cover icon which takes me to a sight where I can listen to all the songs and buy or download the songs to my desktop. For every song bought through myspace. they get.10 the artists gets his .60 and the other parties that sell the music also gets there cut.

    This would generate alot of sales. Myspace could work with all the other music venders so you could buy at any one of them.

    Sincerely
    Gerald lambert

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