{"id":231135,"date":"2018-03-13T07:39:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T05:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=231135"},"modified":"2018-03-13T07:39:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T05:39:02","slug":"spotify-launches-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/231135\/spotify-launches-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify launches in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D<span class=\"st\">igital music service<\/span> Spotify has launched in South Africa, its first venture into Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith over 159 million active users, including over 71 million Spotify Premium subscribers, Spotify offers a choice between an ongoing free ad-supported music service and a fully-featured, ad-free subscription option,\u201d said the company.<\/p>\n<p>The service is available in two options locally:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spotify Free \u2013 R0 per month. Features shuffle play.<\/li>\n<li>Spotify Premium \u2013 R59.99 per month. Features no adverts, offline listening, unlimited skips, high-quality audio, shuffle play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A 30-day free trial of Spotify Premium is available to users.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the music service is available on the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and Microsoft Store. It also works on Xbox and PlayStation consoles, TVs, and smart speakers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/197914\/spotify-set-to-launch-in-south-africa-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify set to launch in South Africa: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital music service Spotify has launched in South Africa, its first venture into Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":197918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[2437],"class_list":["post-231135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231143,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231135\/revisions\/231143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}