Hraba Hospitality Consulting » frankly http://www.hrabaconsulting.com/blog HHotelConsult hoping to make sense of his brainpan's thoughts, rambles, ambles, and more. Hotel Industry banter, social media thoughts, and general blather. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:35:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 An emerging online Ad-Model that works: Good job Spotify, Hulu…. http://www.hrabaconsulting.com/blog/2009/03/18/an-emerging-online-ad-model-that-works-good-job-spotify-hulu/ http://www.hrabaconsulting.com/blog/2009/03/18/an-emerging-online-ad-model-that-works-good-job-spotify-hulu/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:59:44 +0000 Michael Hraba http://www.hrabaconsulting.com/blog/2009/03/18/an-emerging-online-ad-model-that-works-good-job-spotify-hulu/ The Economist bolstered Hulu’s incredible success, and their ad model that seems to be catching on.

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13059735

I adore Hulu’s real TV spots… Alec Baldwin deriding us as dimwit orangutangs or what have you.  I prefer Berkeley Breathed’s “Tv Brainmushed Ambulatory Vacuum Tubes”.

Whatever the case, I heard about “Spotify” launching in the UK today.  It is a similar ad model…. basically itunes for free, other than a quick add every 15 minutes or so.  FCC regs sure make it hard to work in the US, but it should be coming.  And it may be revolutionizing how we accept, use, and voluntarily pay for music.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7913959.stm

Of course, with being hacked recently… it is surely that Spotify is relevant that people are spending the time to mess around with them.  Naughty boys and girls at Itunes having off hours fun?

I kid I kid.

Cheers!

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