Dave Haynes

There’s been enough discussion of the recent Last.fm announcement so I’ve decided not to make a full post. Hopefully I’ll have some more interesting insights after catching up with Last.fm’s own Jonas Woost at Midem next week. I’m hoping to hear what their plans for the full subscription service will be. Here was some initial thoughts:

1) How does their subscription service compete with a site like Napster? For me the Napster subscription service was the way forward for heavy music consumers such as myself. I’ve often bored someone to tears evangelising about my Napster-To-Go subscription but I’ve recently been a little disappointed with the lack of innovations with their offering. Perhaps it will be a positive step in encouraging music subscription take-ups in general.

2) I have to say I’m very impressed with the media coverage they’ve received during the announcement. I guess this is an area where having a parent company like CBS really helps. They could have rolled on someone a little more charismatic to do the BBC News interview I caught over my lunch on the day of announcement though?