Spotify’s new frontiers: Facebook and games consoles
We’re picking up increasing chatter about a possible new partnership between Spotify and social network Facebook. Details are thin on the ground, but it appears to revolve initially around easier ways to share playlist data with Facebook friends, but that this could evolve into an app to actually play the songs too. Something could even be announced this month.
It’s not a huge surprise – Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek trailed just such an app in his keynote at The Great Escape earlier this year, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg sparked rumours in August with a status update reading simply “Spotify is so good”, and both companies now share an investor – telecoms tycoon Li Ka-Shing.
And talking of new platforms for Spotify… During its presentation at a Scottish Society of Computers and the Law event in Edinburgh last week, Spotify’s Niklas Ivarsson showed one slide with the three key distribution strategies for Spotify: Desktop, Consumer Electronics and Mobile.
We know all about Desktop and Mobile, but Consumer Electronics? The slide mentioned games consoles, media extenders and TVs. The latter appears to be part of its just-announced deal with TeliaSonera in Sweden, but Spotify hasn’t announced anything on the console side so far. However, the Consumer Electronics section of the slide was illustrated by a shot of a PS3…
October 14th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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