Hear The Music, See The Commercial

The new service SpiralFrog is offering with Universal to give away music is a marked change in the traditional music industry business model. “Instead of copying Apple’s iTunes store by charging customers to buy music, SpiralFrog says it will replace the traditional cost of downloading with money made from advertising. Audiences will have to sit through a short advertisement before downloading their track of choice, a tactic used by some other media websites but thought to be a first for music.”