There are 8B User-curated Playlists on Spotify; Spotify Adding Comments to Podcasts
#219 | Your Weekly Dose of Spotify News
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⭐️ Spotify is introducing comments to its podcasts. Are music tracks next?
In its 18 years of existence, Spotify hasn’t had a comments section to go with its music tracks. That sets it apart from other music platforms, such as SoundCloud, YouTube and TikTok (if you consider TikTok a music platform).
Now that’s about to change – at least when it comes to podcasts hosted on Spotify.
The streaming service announced on Tuesday (July 9) that it has begun to roll out the ability to post comments on podcasts, a move it says is key to podcasters’ ability to develop deeper relationships with their audiences.
⭐️ There are 8bn user-curated playlists on Spotify, 725m created this year alone, Daniel Ek says
Spotify has been working to make playlists a more attractive aspect of the music streaming experience – and potentially to make them into a feature that can bring in more revenue. So far, the effort seems to be paying off.
⭐️ Ultimate Guide to how the Spotify Music Discovery Algorithm works
Even though streaming has become unimaginably easy for the user to discover new music, that does not mean the process isn’t complicated. This guide breaks down how the Spotify algorithm works its magic and how musicians can use it to their advantage.
⭐️Spotify Editors discuss what makes a Classic Album in the streaming era
What makes a classic album in the streaming era from 2015 to the present? Industry insiders join Spotify editors to discuss how albums were chosen for Spotify’s new
🗣 Podcasts
▶️ Playlists
Dentsu Italy and Spotify Team Up for 'Summer Hits Symptoms'
Directed by Cannes Lions-award-winning creative Riccardo Fregoso, the campaign is signified by a short hero ad made entirely in-house by Dentsu Creative Studios, in collaboration with agency InGood.
🎧 Streams
Bob Marley’s ‘Three Little Birds’ Joins Spotify’s ‘Billions Club’
NMIXX's 'Love Me Like This' hits 100 million streams on Spotify
The Forrest Gump Soundtrack Hits Different in the Spotify Era
🖌 Design
Data Platform Explained
When it comes to scalability, Spotify’s Data Collection platform collects more than 1 trillion events per day. Its event delivery architecture is constantly evolving through numerous iterations.
🧐 Research
Estimating long-term outcome of algorithms
There are numerous scenarios where the short- and long-term consequences of an algorithm can differ. To estimate these long-term effects, one could conduct extensive online experiments, but these may require months to yield the desired insights, thus slowing down the process of selecting the right algorithm. In this work, we introduce a statistical approach that allows for the offline evaluation of an algorithm’s long-term outcomes by using only historical and short-term experimental data.
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🔥 News
What We Currently Know About Spotify’s “Superpremium” Plan for HiFi Lovers
Spotify Is Testing An Emergency Alert System in Sweden—Another Massive Shift from Traditional Media
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