Comment on "Sponsored recommendations": I pay for Spotify Premium, and yet somehow I'm still the product?
jpeps@lemmy.world 1 year agoI agree with you, but you may be missing the point - this recommendation is sponsored, so likely it wouldn’t have been recommended unless the artist paid.
akulium@feddit.de 1 year ago
It seems relatively harmless as long as they don’t overdo it though. The only incentive for someone to pay for this is that that you might like their music and will listen to it more in the future, which would be a win for you as well.
Maybe it also allows smaller artists to gain momentum without only depending on the magic recommendation algorithm.
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Thats how all advertisements started. Small, not overdone. Then people became okay with paying and receiving ads. So they slowly increase the amount until you have what cable has become.
akulium@feddit.de 1 year ago
Most ads are terrible because they are annoying and advertise bad products. I think that’s less likely to be a problem here because your music is the ad, if it is annoying and bad you will simply stop listening and they lose money on the ad.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If Spotify cared about smaller artists they wouldn’t pay them the least.
gamey@feddit.rocks 1 year ago
If Spotify cared about artist they would pay any of them even remotely fair!
akulium@feddit.de 1 year ago
Of course they don’t care about small artists. That’s my point, if you pay for ads you have an option to be less dependent on the platform to make you famous by paying for it. Simply waiting for people to find your music is unlikely to be succesful.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I still don’t want to see ads. One of many reasons I don’t use spotify.
Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The recommendations will likely become worse over time, because they want you to listen to whatever makes them the most money and that might not be the same stuff you want to listen to. The same happened to tiktok recommendations and youtube subscriptions (people stopped getting notifications on creators they subscribed to).