Plug.dj says Goodbye
The plug3 group has runned out of finantiation and consequently shuts down plug.dj which rose after the previous death of the illegal copyright music web Grooveshark.com.
Spotify and Itunes Play giants are leaving other music services without ways to monetize. We still have left great music services as Rhapsody, Rdio, Last.fm or Pandora although, I do forsee that they will struggle with the numbers.
I will very well remeber plug.dj´s dancing avatars, they were great and made me discover new cool radios of good people. I do think that most of the users used adblock which made plug3 naked. I thought their gamification strategy was original, but obviously not enough, the more you listened to music the more points you earned to buy new dancing avatars.
Here's two of them:
Weren´t they cool?
There´s more information about the shut down here
https://plugcubed.net/
Also for users that would want to recover their playlists go here and follow the steps https://p0ne.com/
