Music service “VKontakte” can be paid later this year – RIA Novosti

09:24 20.07.2016

(updated: 12:16 20.07.2016 )

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MOSCOW, July 20 -. RIA Novosti The users of social network “VKontakte” will soon have to pay for some of the functions listening to audio recordings, the newspaper “Izvestia” referring to the general director of Universal Music Group in Russia Dmitry Konnov, general director of Warner Music Group in Russia Alexander Blinov and general director of Sony Music Entertainment in Russia Arina Dmitrieva.

Listen to music you can still free, but in order to add audio to your page will have to pay, according to the publication. According to Alexander Blinov, paid features will cost users “at the price of a cup of coffee”.

In this case, the playlists will be more. If now you can attach only 10 tracks, then in the future users will be able to increase the number of audio recordings, write “News” with reference to Arina Dmitrieva.

New features will most likely before the end of the year, the article said.

The press service of the social network reported that “VKontakte has no plans to introduce a fee for listening to audio in their native mobile applications on the desktop.” However, this does not mean that the “OpenID” will not be engaged in the development of value-added services. “We will test different monetization opportunities in collaboration with our partners-majors and the UMA. Terms of cooperation we mutually agreed not to disclose it. But it is important to note that for our users, these conditions provide for freedom of access to all audio and video content, which is the social network. “

In Russia, there have Apple and Yandex paid listening to music services. Monthly subscription to the Apple Music costs about 170 rubles, and a month to use the service “Yandex. Music” costs about 150 rubles.