Replies to post #662 on Pandora Media (fka P)

[Coz Mabluda]

Laurie, does your or is your Bama buddy aware of the Grooveshark
threat ?

[Stock Guy777]

Well pass this along to your friend. Although I just sent this to Pandoras investor relations email.

Subject: platform upgrade/subscription

Good morning,
I am reaching out to you this morning regarding a possible platform upgrade suggestion that could lead to more subscription growth. I understand most of your revenue comes from ads placed on your platform under the free subscription model. Without disturbing the ad model, you could possibly add a new feature that allows subscribers at a nominal fee of, say, $4.99 Per month, and allow those users to be able to request one or two songs per hour under a new tab/button that allows the user to add an artist/song and have that song play immediately. Not sure how this would work with your business model, but thought it would increase some sort of listener attention. To turn some free listener subscriptions into a monetary paid subscriber by allowing those paid subscribers, for a fee, to be able to here the exact song they search for without having to wait for it to be played. Like I said doesn't have to be unlimited, but one or two songs per hour at the subscribers discretion I think would help not only your bottom line but also help compete with the competition such as Spotify and the possible new Apple platform which is going to allow subscribers to play anything out of the iTunes Catalog. I am not sure how this would fit into your existing model in regard to artist royalties, but I am sure the nominal fee for subscription for this feature, for one or two songs per hour, would be sufficient if artist royalties have to be increased.

I am a dedicated free subscriber/listener and shareholder, and would definitely pay for such subscription if it was implied/added.

Thank you for your time and hope this is something we can see in the near future out of Pandora.


Best regards,
David

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