From June 2020 to June 2021, YouTube paid more than $4 billion to the music industry, the company announced this month -- a much-increased sum from the world's biggest video platform where product… By ...

Justin Fowler is the co-founder of Audio Press – a way to consume news and content through audio. When Pandora Radio launched in January of 2000, it didn’t seem to catch on until that half of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a data analyst, marketer and founder of Westcott Multimedia. A few years ago I sat down with Spotify’s then-VP of Content and ...

Most independent rappers don’t fail because the music is bad. They fail because they don’t understand the first 24 hours.

The new AI-powered "Prompted Playlist" feature will be available in beta to Spotify's premium users in New Zealand on Thursday (Dec. 11). By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer On Wednesday (Dec. 10), ...

Spotify Technology SA will begin testing a new feature that allows users to type an idea for a playlist into the app and receive a unique set of songs based on their historical taste and behavior. The ...

Talking Heads’ David Byrne has posted another of his playlists, this one titled “I Am My Own Algorithm.” Byrne writes: Here’s recent stuff that’s in my current playlist. Not everything is current, but ...

Researchers have discovered that YouTube’s algorithm has lumped together videos of partially clothed children in recommended playlists, raising concerns about exposure to predators online. The videos ...