Samsung Milk Music spoils, Slacker Radio takes its place

Samsung is simply not interested in maintaining a streaming music service. And so, yesterday saw the end of Milk Music.The end of Milk Music was announced more than a month ago and its sibling service, Milk Video, was also shuttered after a year. It seems that Samsung’s hopes of garnering a multimedia audience

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Ad-supported music streaming revenue forecast to grow, despite fewer “freemium” options

There’s a clear migration being tracked from bought-and-owned media toward the current streaming models we have. Portability and unlimited variety beat out CDs (as well as smartphones, of course). But a split in this trend comes down between those who pay a subscription fee to music streaming companies for extra features and listeners who opt for a free lunch. Those music junkies are served ads during their listening session to help get revenue for Spotify, Pandora, Google and others.And ...

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