Discover Weekly
product on 7 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 19 times in 10 episodes since 2016
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Changuel: Discover Weekly Succeeded Because a Bug Injected Familiar Songs
“All the metrics. Exactly. Like all the metrics, all the success metrics of the feature was going down. So they quickly realized that actually what users really liked in the Discover Weekly was not the fact that it was completely new, but this familiarity that …”
Söderström: Spotify's AI DJ usage exceeds Discover Weekly among active users
“Well, for the people that use it, it's actually their biggest set. It's bigger than their Discover Weekly usage.”
Ek: Spotify's AI DJ feature will eventually outdo Discover Weekly
“Yes. And I think it'll even outdo Discover Weekly.”
Thompson: Discover Weekly engagement dropped when Spotify removed familiar songs
“Spotify, when they were initially designing their incredible program, Discover Weekly, they initially wanted it to be entirely new songs. But a bug in the algorithm accidentally let through some familiar songs as they were testing internally. So they fixed the…”
Spotify Discover Weekly is purely algorithmic without editorial intervention
“Discover Weekly, for example, everyone's Discover Weekly is different, right? So, there's no way that we can really have, sort of, editorial, ah, intervention. So, everything is purely based on what you've been listening to”