<story><title>Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/business/burger-king-tv-ad-google-home.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evan_</author><text>I guess this ruins my get-rich-quick scheme:&lt;p&gt;1. Publish an album with 1000 short, quiet tracks and a very unique name to all of the online streaming services&lt;p&gt;2. Buy ads on late-night television  with a very clear voice that says &amp;quot;OK Google, play album &amp;lt;unique name&amp;gt;. Alexa, play album &amp;lt;unique name&amp;gt;. Hey Siri, play album &amp;lt;unique name&amp;gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;3. Rack up the fraction-of-a-penny residuals as my songs play to people who&amp;#x27;ve fallen asleep with the television on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bherms</author><text>A (very awesome) band called Vulfpeck actually ran an experiment where they released an album called &amp;quot;Sleepify&amp;quot; that contained then 30 second silent tracks and asked all of their supporters to stream the album on repeat nightly.  Their idea was to do this long enough to be able to fund a free tour.  If I remember correctly, they ended up netting like $35,000 or something from this before Spotify removed the album.</text></comment>
<story><title>Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/business/burger-king-tv-ad-google-home.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>evan_</author><text>I guess this ruins my get-rich-quick scheme:&lt;p&gt;1. Publish an album with 1000 short, quiet tracks and a very unique name to all of the online streaming services&lt;p&gt;2. Buy ads on late-night television  with a very clear voice that says &amp;quot;OK Google, play album &amp;lt;unique name&amp;gt;. Alexa, play album &amp;lt;unique name&amp;gt;. Hey Siri, play album &amp;lt;unique name&amp;gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;3. Rack up the fraction-of-a-penny residuals as my songs play to people who&amp;#x27;ve fallen asleep with the television on!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>strstr</author><text>This could also be used to estimate how many people (with one of those devices) are actually watching your ad.</text></comment>