If you've been toying with the idea of subscribing to Spotify Premium, now is the perfect time to give it a go. From today until the end of the month, Spotify is giving away Google Chromecast, free of charge, to those who subscribe to Premium for three months.
Spotify is offering the Premium subscription at a non-discounted rate only to customers in the United States and United Kingdom. This means they will have to splurge $29.97 upfront for the three-month subscription and $9.99 every month afterwards.
Customers can only sign up, though, if they have never signed up for a Premium membership or never had a free trial.
Those who think that this is a good deal should act fast, since Spotify says on its website that supplies are limited. This promotion will last only until Feb. 28.
The company says that the customer's shipping address should be in the same country as the purchase and one Chromecast is limited to one person only. Once they've availed the offer, they should expect to receive an email from Spotify containing the voucher needed to redeem the free Chromecast.
It appears that this move is Spotify's response on Apple's recent announcement that Apple Music has quickly gaining ground in spite of the service being the new kid on the block.
Apple's executives Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue lately revealed through "The Talk Show," a podcast by Daring Fireball's John Gruber, that Apple Music has already more than 11 million subscribers.
Back in early January, Tech Times reported that Apple Music reached 10 million paying subscribers in its first six months of entry into the music streaming arena. This is a milestone that took its archrival Spotify almost six years to accomplish. After Spotify was launched in 2006, it only managed to reach the mark of 10 million paying subscribers until May 2014.
Apple likewise extended Apple Music to Google's Android operating system, although Cue admitted during the time that among its biggest challenges of launching Apple Music on Android was to entice Android users to give Apple's app a try.
"One of the things is that we obviously don't know a lot of these Android customers and we're excited to hear what they'd like us to go do," said Cue. "We hope customers will try it out and make a judgment based on how it is."
