http://www.wearelistening.org/blog News, tips and resources for songwriters and song contest participants Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:30:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.wearelistening.org/blog/spiralfrog-closes/ http://www.wearelistening.org/blog/spiralfrog-closes/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:42:17 +0000 Lior Shamir http://www.wearelistening.org/blog/?p=1589
SpiralFrog, the highly profiled ad-supported download service, has shut its doors after a lukewarm reception in the UK and endless content licensing and upper management strife in the US prior.  The company was the first to deploy a ‘feels-like-free’ music download service in 2006 and secured both Universal and EMI, with competitors Qtrax and We7 following suit with similar ad-supported download services, before spiraling to its demise.

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