Spotify wird mit einer Sammelklage konfrontiert, in der behauptet wird, der Discovery-Modus sei ein „Pay-for-Play-System“
https://go.forbes.com/vKGogC
Spotify wird mit einer Sammelklage konfrontiert, in der behauptet wird, der Discovery-Modus sei ein „Pay-for-Play-System“
https://go.forbes.com/vKGogC
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Spotify was hit with a class action lawsuit in federal court accusing the streaming giant of disguising its controversial Discovery Mode, which recommends songs to users in certain algorithmic mixes based on their tastes, as part of a scheme to boost songs by artists who pay the streaming service. The company called the suit “nonsense.”
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>Spotify acknowledges on its website that “commercial considerations” may influence songs recommended through Discovery Mode.
FM Radio stations have always sold airtime to record labels.
Discovery essentially functions like a radio station.
This lawsuit will go nowhere.
RIP to the word „Payola“
It is but at least 1) they require 0 upfront costs unlike most modern promotional / sales / marketing tools and 2) they’ve also created substantial value both from a revenue and a fan discovery perspective for many artists who have been blessed by the DM gods.
It’s nevertheless still a race to the bottom but at least *for now* you can still extract value out of it due to the shift away from editorial and towards algorithmic over the last 12-24m from Spotify.