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McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

camperslo writes "The New York Post online has this story. "Less than a month after Pepsi announced a blockbuster deal to give away 100 million downloads from Apple's iTunes music service to its customers, McDonald's is close to a announcing a much bigger deal"." No matter what you think of iTunes, this is tremendous publicity for music on demand services in general. If the public gets a taste for it, this could be the beginning of the end for the audio CD.

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  1. What better way to..... by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    infect the young with targeted marketing? Britney Spears in your happy meal? This is a great day for spreading musical mediocrity in America. Create a boy band and then market it via McDonald's!

  2. How much money are we talking? by Valar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you buy a billion songs, you probably get a significant discount, but still, how much is Micky D's give to Apple? Even half a billion dollars would be a huge deal for Apple. Good thing I have that stock...

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  3. iTunes, great for kiddie music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    This is a good match. iTunes is the musical equivalent of McDonalds: Junk Music.

    I'll have a Happy Meal with my free iTunes.

  4. Smart Marketing by pagercam2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    First they are putting WiFi HotSpots inside McDs' now "free" music (with purchase) they already have fatty foods, they obviousily have dropped the family marketing tack and are concentrating on nerds as their targeted customers, the'll be serving webpages on Apache/Linux/Perl next!