Comments on: Last.fm Announces Subscription Based Service

By: grep

grep — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:39:48 +0000

Sounds like an april’s fool to me.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:50:35 +0000

Bye-bye to LastFM from Belgium! We had a great time with each other. I would have thought that they already made sufficient revenue on more and more annoying ads, though. Pity…

By: Emil

Emil — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:35:14 +0000

You can just use a VPN/proxy to register under a German or USA account, and you’ll get free access to everything :D

By: Kosher-X

Kosher-X — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:01:17 +0000

Wise decision from Last.fm crew. If not, their business will go dodo.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:20:00 +0000

I would think that they do not have such a huge problem with that if they consider running a profitable business more important than being the site with a large user base. If I would run a business like that I would prefer to be profitable unless some big *** corporation was looking for a service like mine on the market. Seems that a large user base does increase the sales prices during such transactions which is actually the opposite of how individual webmasters do business. They look at how profitable a website or service is and make their offer based on that and to a lesser extend on the potential it has because of a large user base.

To sum it up. A service with 100k users that pay $3 each month or bring in $3 each month because of advertisements is attractive while a service with 1m users and advertisement earnings from only 1-10% of the user base might not.

By: Hamid

Hamid — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:11:42 +0000

I am pretty much sure that they are now going to loose much of their user base.

By: Roman ShaRP

Roman ShaRP — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:02:10 +0000

I’m using the Last.FM only as my music statistics service.

I don’t like streaming services at all because of poor quality of content delivering (may be it’s because of slow or busy connection, but it’s poor anyway). mp3-player is the best radio – I said it in earlier 2000s.

So, it seems that nothing will change for me.