{"id":181012,"date":"2016-09-29T09:58:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T07:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=181012"},"modified":"2016-09-29T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:00:08","slug":"spotify-to-acquire-soundcloud-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/181012-spotify-to-acquire-soundcloud-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Spotify to acquire SoundCloud: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscription music streaming service\u00a0Spotify is in talks to acquire SoundCloud, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f301392f-069c-32f0-8087-18f3377e0e10\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the\u00a0talks are at an advanced stage and an announcement of the acquisition could be made soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/digital\/news\/spotify-soundcloud-acquisition-report-1201873039\/\" target=\"_blank\">Variety noted<\/a><\/strong> that if the\u00a0acquisition is announced soon, it would be\u00a0just months after SoundCloud launched its own subscription\u00a0streaming service, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soundcloud.com\/2016\/03\/29\/introducing-soundcloud-go\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud Go<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Before\u00a0SoundCloud Go, the company\u00a0was an\u00a0online audio distribution platform that focussed on letting its users upload and share their originally-created sounds.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Spotify and SoundCloud<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/172976-spotify-using-your-data-to-sell-advertising.html\"><strong>Spotify using your data to sell advertising<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/154996-soundcloud-is-in-trouble.html\"><strong>SoundCloud is in trouble<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/152981-spotify-ready-to-launch-video-content.html\"><strong>Spotify ready to launch video content<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotify is set to acquire SoundCloud, the Financial Times has reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":155004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,35428,7927],"class_list":["post-181012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-soundcloud","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}