{"id":12101,"date":"2016-02-21T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12101"},"modified":"2016-02-19T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T12:56:55","slug":"free-chromecast-offered-with-spotify-premium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/free-chromecast-offered-with-spotify-premium","title":{"rendered":"Free Chromecast offered with Spotify Premium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">The music streaming service Spotify is offering a free Google Chromecast dongle for subscribers of Spotify Premium. Spotify has many users on its ad-infused free service. The company is keen to convert and pull in more customers to sigh up to its premium option. It wants more users as loyal paying customers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Google&#8217;s Chromecast is a small HDMI dongle that can be plugged into a TV and allows a big range of content to be streamed from your smartphone, tablet or laptop. It effectively allows to convert a normal TV into an internet-connected &#8216;smart TV&#8217;. Chromecast has integration of many third-party apps, including Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, Now TV, BBC iPlayer and more. The device also supports Facebook and Flickr.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Even when the data speeds are low, the small device uses a powerful WiFi antenna (supports 5GHz wireless networks) to stream video content consistently. Developers have put in a new software feature called Fast Play that can preload content, which Google says reduces time to load content by 80%.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">To get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2016\/02\/18\/spotify-is-offering-a-free-chromecast-if-you-sign-up-for-premium_n_9261932.html\" target=\"_blank\">free offer<\/a> deal, which is for a limited period, you have to pay 3-months charges upfront (\u00a329.97). It is available to only new customers and to those who have not already redeemed the free monthly trial of Spotify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music streaming service Spotify is offering a free Google Chromecast dongle for subscribers of Spotify Premium. Spotify has many users on its ad-infused free service. The company is keen to convert and pull in more customers to sigh up to its premium option. It wants more users as loyal paying customers. Google&#8217;s Chromecast is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12102,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101\/revisions\/12102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}