{"id":59477,"date":"2014-06-02T18:01:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=59477"},"modified":"2014-06-02T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:01:36","slug":"vodacom-in-streaming-talks-with-spotify-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/59477\/vodacom-in-streaming-talks-with-spotify-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom in streaming talks with Spotify: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify is in talks with Vodacom to offer its music streaming services in Africa, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-06-02\/spotify-said-in-talks-with-vodacom-over-music-deal-in-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg report<\/a> which cited two anonymous sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom is set to offer its users Spotify subscriptions which include an amount of free data with which they can stream music from the service.<\/p>\n<p>This news follows the recent confirmation from MTN that it plans to offer its users a discount on subscriptions to Simfy Africa, the first international music streaming service to officially launch in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>MTN said that its users will be able to get a full Simfy Africa subscription for R49 per month which usually costs R60 per month, billed directly to their cellphone account.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom was asked whether it is in talks with Spotify and what it plans to ask for such a service, but the operator declined to answer specific questions.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the mobile operator said that they are looking at content deals, but were not able to name specific partners at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Vodafone (which owns 65% of Vodacom) announced as part of its strategy to offer content to its users that it would give UK LTE users a six-month subscription to streaming movies and TV shows on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>This article first appeared on <a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/103493-spotify-vodacom-music-deal-in-the-works-report.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/103493-spotify-vodacom-music-deal-in-the-works-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vodacom and Spotify<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Spotify draws in $250 million more in funding\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/49893\/spotify-draws-in-250-million-more-in-funding\/\"><strong>Spotify draws in $250 million more in funding<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Spotify seeks new financing: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/45412\/spotify-seeks-new-financing-report\/\"><strong>Spotify seeks new financing: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify is in talks with Vodacom to offer its music streaming services in Africa, according to a Bloomberg report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,263,8079,2437,27],"class_list":["post-59477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-netflix","tag-simfy-africa","tag-spotify","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59477","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59479,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59477\/revisions\/59479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}