We7: The New Ad-Supported Music Destination On The Rise

Steven Finch — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:41:50 +0000

We7 is one of the new kids on the block in the music industry. On We7 you can find artists from all over the world, signed and unsigned. With the majority of artists you are able to listen to the tracks on their albums, as well as add them to a play list. Additionally, tracks can be purchased via iTunes.

We7 is mainly an ad supported streaming platform, in which artists receive their royalties from a percentage of the advertising revenues and then hopefully more from purchases via iTunes. We7 keeps the other cut of the advertising revenues for providing the platform, as well as getting a percentage from iTunes affiliate sales.

We7 has a catalog that is growing rapidly and they seem to have a few majors already on board. I would like to see a better design that takes up the majority of the page on a fluid layout, instead of just the current fixed layout. This will also allow them to strategically place their advertising banners, which is their key business model. We7 however is definitely worth checking out if you are look to stream some of the best albums from the biggest artists, from anyone in the world.

Spiral Frog Up To More Tricks??

Steven Finch — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:54:52 +0000

This is quite funny actually. Bruce over at Hypebot has been running a poll on which paid download service has the best chance of success – Spiral Frog, We7 or Other. The poll ran for 7 days, after 6 days he only had 100 votes with 80% of the votes going to We7. Then suddenly this morning Bruce noticed that the 100 votes was now 650 and now with Spiral Frog slightly ahead. Of course it looks like someone from Spiral Frog just kept logging on to the site and voting for themselves, pretty sad really! But then again it is Spiral Frog.

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We7: The New Ad-Supported Music Destination On The Rise

Spiral Frog Up To More Tricks??