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- Spotify has introduced comments on podcasts, enhancing its social networking capabilities.
- The app's 2023 revamp includes a TikTok-like discovery feed, artist profiles, and story posts.
- Spotify VP Maya Prohovnik hinted at potential future support for comments on music artist pages.
- Apple previously attempted similar social features with Ping and Connect, both of which failed.
- Spotify's gradual rollout of social features aims to increase user engagement and compete with larger social networks.

Source: Techcrunch

Spotify Evolves into a Social Network with New Podcast Comments Feature

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Youtube and Instagram are  confirmed choices

P.S. thinking of putting minuscule solo podcast episodes

Podcasts: Google Podcasts or Spotify or none?

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Will you use a product that targets Podcast market !
Basically a website that suggests you various podcasts from YouTube/Apple/Spotify etc. and also have a community page for podcasters and also gives you transcripts/ learnings/ notes from a podcast you listened!

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Software Developer

Spotify being one of the most loved brands has come down to this, and no wonder! We've seen popular brands being poorly rated en masse as part of agenda driven boycott campaigns, but what we see here is more of a genuine disappointment with the product by its users with its recent update.

Assuming someone on the Product side decided to rip off all the features of a basic music player to drive growth in the form of paid subscriptions, Growth additionally will also have to handle the poor Playstore ratings as the outcome.

What do you think should Spotify start doing from here? Not asking from a user's perspective (I know we all want free music without their annoying ads) but from a business perspective.

If you were the CGO or CPO at Spotify India, what's your way forward after this?

Program Manager

1. True rise of podcasts

2. Regional language content taking over our feed.

3. Free AI tools helping to dub videos on native language. 

4. First Unicorn in this space

5. Rise of more and better gaming creators

6. People leaving Jobs to pursue this as full-time career

What are your predictions? 

Let’s discuss this in comments!

6 Creator Economy Predictions - 2024

Product Manager

Spotify is late to the party, but they are letting go 17% which is huge compared to others in one go. 
be careful with similar type of industry. pocket fm, Kuku fm perhaps?

Spotify layoff - 17% workforce

17% is huge, especially this late in the doom cycle  
 It feels like Spotify must be losing market share heavily against Apple Music, YT Music, etc.  
  
 The bundling of different subscriptions always wins over just separate standalone subscriptions

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Lawyer

Seems apt, now that there are everywhere incl OTT, next thing to capture would be social media.

When is Jio launching its own version of TikTok?

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Gonna post my favourite song here for the day. Todays: 

https://spotify.link/EpQrUtfIRIb

I’m going to post my favourite song, for the day.

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That's a Spotify Wrap for 2023.🥶

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Hi there,

I am a self taught programmer who enjoys coding and likes todo lists a lot.

I am right now building a web app that will allow you to create lists for anything and everything that you like starting from movies, podcasts, bookmarks, etc.

And then those lists can be shared across the internet so that the people around you can get to know about you and your taste.

What do you think about this?

Also if you want any features in it, please let me know.

Building a web app. Need review

Research Specialist

Only drop features. Let's debate on another thread.

Grapevine Features Suggestions.

- Spotify Technology reported record profit, gross margin, and free cash flow in Q2, driven by its recent efficiency strategy.
- Despite monthly active user metrics falling short, the stock surged over 10% in premarket trading.
- The company announced price hikes for its premium US subscription plans and committed to multiple rounds of layoffs to boost growth and improve margins.
- Spotify's operating income and net income significantly exceeded expectations, with strong guidance for Q3.
- Wall Street analysts credited the company's gross margin beat and better-than-expected guidance as key catalysts for the positive stock reaction. 

 Source: Yahoo Finance

Spotify Stock Surges After Record Profit and Strong Guidance

I really liked the concept. It has best of both worlds. Easiest way to create content is audio, and consume is text.

However, I think it will suffer because it might not promote controversial stuff or negative comments.

Humans have a negativity bias. Name-calling, insults or blind hate, are things that no one likes - but also things that no one can look away from. And those engaged in it can't easily pull away. 

One of the reasons why Grapevine is so good because in an anonymous forum, people might be less likely to step in and stop negative behavior. People either promote propaganda of one company or to spread shit about other companies.


Even X is infamous for rewarding conflict. Most negative comments come from anon folks. elafda get the best engagement.  


The audio first social media app Airchat has a second order effect that people can write way more mean shit than say it aloud. Plus it's not natively anon. 

I really wish it does work, in a world where there's so much negativity, we need airchat to thrive.

Why Airchat might not work

Director Product

How does this app plan to monetize?

The rock only gets bottomer for spotify free users 😭 spotify wrapped you’ll be missed 👍🏼

I was honestly okay with the ads, but this was my last straw lol

Spotify really be testing users’ patience

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- YouTube Music is testing an AI-generated conversational radio feature for select Premium users in the U.S., allowing custom radio stations based on user prompts.
- A new Shazam-like tool is being rolled out, enabling users to discover song names by singing, humming, or playing parts of the song.
- The AI radio feature lets users request specific music styles, such as 'catchy pop choruses' or 'upbeat pop anthems.'
- This feature is similar to AI playlist tools from Spotify, Amazon Music, and Deezer, offering personalized listening experiences.
- The song recognition tool, previously available to select Android users, is now available to all iOS and Android users, surpassing Shazam by recognizing songs through humming or singing. 

 Source: Techcrunch

YouTube Music Introduces AI-Generated Radio and Enhanced Song Discovery

Tech is slowly realizing that Elon was right and a huge amount of overhead is not necessary to grow these companies when you actually manage teams properly.

The markets are savage, Spotify trading at 8% higher after laying off 17% workforce

👉 You can now keep track of all your posts and comments with ease, thanks to the brand-new profile screen.

👉 Tap on usernames to learn more about your fellow users and check out their bios.

👉 Tag fellow users in comments and join in on the conversation. 

👉 Follow posts that interest you and never miss out on the latest happenings.

👉 We've also added timestamps to comments, so you know exactly when each conversation took place.

👉 Comment reply notifications now navigate you till the comment

To top it all off, we've made some behind-the-scenes magic with UI improvements, bug fixes and performance optimizations to bring you a seamless and enjoyable experience.

Go ahead and explore the new features and enjoy the improved platform!

Please let us know if you have any feedbacks or encounter bugs.

Grapevine app update!

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Thank you for all the love and support over the last few weeks. :) 

Grapevine is just 5 weeks old and we are a very small team :)  But we are trying address feature requests as they come from you all. A few things from us: 

1. We recommend you update the app from the play/app store for the best experience 
2. As per popular demand - timestamps have now been introduced in the app  (available on latest version)
3. New (and hopefully better) algo for the popular feed has been rolled out 

Lastly, please feel free to drop in your feedback and feature requests in this post. We will try to implement everything we can.

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