Spotify Australia has announced a partnership with Google, gifting Premium Family account owners a free Google Home Mini.
“We’re excited to be partnering with Google to bring the magic of voice to our Spotify Premium Family subscribers. After all, what’s more fun than sharing the music you love with the people you love,” says Alex Norström, Spotify’s chief premium business officer.
Once their account is linked to the Home Mini, users can ask the Google Assistant to control their music on Spotify, including volume and playlist selection via voice commands.
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Spotify Australia Offers Free Google Home Mini To Subscribers. Orlaith Costello April 24, 2019 Google Smart Home Devices Sound. Spotify Australia has teamed up with Google to offer a free Google Home Mini to new and existing Premium Family account holders until 14 May 2019. The Premium Family account provides membership for up to six Spotify accounts at one single address for a monthly AU$17.99 subscription fee. For a while last year, Spotify was giving away free Google Home Mini speakers to its Spotify Premium for Family subscribers. Now, it’s bringing back the offer and extending it to individual.
With a monthly AU$17.99 subscription fee, Spotify Family subscribers receive Premium memberships for up to 6 accounts at the same address. While cheaper than 6 individual subscriptions, users are unable to access Spotify’s student pricing of AU$5.99 per month.
Australia isn’t the first region to receive this offer either. Spotify subscribers in the US, Canada and the UK have received similar offers in the last twelve months.
Likely a bid to convert Spotify subscribers to their smart assistant of choice, it’s certainly an interesting move by Google. According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Smart Home Device Tracker, 38.8% of smart speaker owners have a Google Home.
Recent speculation also suggests that Google might be looking to show off a next-generation refresh of their flagship smart speaker at this year's Google I/O 2019 alongside the more-or-less confirmed Google Pixel 3a and long-rumored Google Pixel Smartwatch. Stay tuned for more.
The Google Home Mini offer is available to both new and existing subscribers until 14th May in Australia. Details can be found on their website.
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Spotify Australia has teamed up with Google to offer a free Google Home Mini to new and existing Premium Family account holders until 14 May 2019.
The Premium Family account provides membership for up to six Spotify accounts at one single address for a monthly AU$17.99 subscription fee.
Spotify is offering one Google Home Mini per family account to the primary account holder. Sub-accounts are ineligible.
Once the Home Mini is linked to the Spotify account, subscribers can control their music, volume controls, and playback via voice commands.
It’s a smart move by Spotify to entice subscribers to the platform after rumours that Amazon is developing its own free ad-supported music platformthat would likely be controlled by Alexa voice assistant.
Google also announced that it is offering its own ad-supported free YouTube Music service to Google Home users as well.
Although worldwide Amazon is in the lead when it comes to smart speaker integration, according to IDC research 38.8% of smart speaker owners opted for a Google Home.
“We’re excited to be partnering with Google to bring the magic of voice to our Spotify Premium Family subscribers,” says Alex Norström, Spotify Chief Premium Business Officer.
“After all, what’s more fun than sharing the music you love with the people you love.”
Spotify Google Home Mini Free Deal
The Spotify-Google Home Mini offer is available to new and existing Premium Family Account holders in Australia until 14 May 2019. Devices need to be redeemed by 31 May 2019.
Learn more here.