/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

kek, meanwhile at Spotify
>(...) these podcasters, whose shows entail playing various noises like crashing waves or bird sounds on repeat, could make at least $18,000 a month through advertisements that Spotify placed in the programming.
>(...) some algorithmic magic seemed to be pushing people to this content, and now, over a year later, documentation from Spotify confirms as much.
>As of January, according to an internal document Bloomberg viewed, white noise and ambient podcasts accounted for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform, inadvertently boosted by Spotify’s own algorithmic push for “talk” content (versus music).
>Once Spotify realized how much attention was going to white noise podcasts, the company considered removing these shows from the talk feed and prohibiting future uploads while redirecting the audience towards comparable programming that was more economical for Spotify — doing so, according to the document, would boost Spotify’s annual gross profit by €35 million, or $38 million.
How retarded are these platforms and their "fiddiling" with the algorithm?
>oh, let's hire a lot of indie podcast superstars, that will bring revenue!
>wait, people didn't want to follow them into our platform? No probs, let's just signal boost podcasts in the algo!