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Spotify listening data can accurately predict user personality traits
“We actually had some sort of collaborations with academic institutions, and, you know, we can actually pretty accurately predict people's personality just based on the data, right?”
Prince: Spotify paid out ~$12B last year, exceeding music industry market cap 22 years ago
“Spotify last year sent something like 12 billion dollars Out to music creators. That's more than the entire music industry's market cap was. 22 years ago, which is extraordinary.”
Spotify views AI taking over music composition as years away
“We have Internal discussions about, like, what happens when machines take over, but I would say our view is that that's probably still years away.”
Music streaming doesn't compete directly with social media for user attention
“The interesting thing about music is that we're actually not competing as much as you think, and that's because music is complimentary.”
Hung: Spotify streaming data enables mapping of critical user life moments
“As we start to capture different types of user behavior, we are able to start mapping out critical moments of your life.”
Le-Quoc: Vast majority of industry still struggles with data visualization
“Not the sort of advanced customer of ours, you know, say, you know, Airbnb or Twitter or, Spotify, but the vast majority of the industry is, is still kind of struggling with that.”
Bernhardsson had no assigned manager during his first year at Spotify
“No one told me who my manager was for the last year, for the first year of Spotify.”
ClickHouse counts Spotify, Netflix, Disney, and Uber as customers
“We are taking this very powerful analytical database that's used by companies like Spotify and Netflix and Disney and Uber and eBay and Cloudflare, and we're building a managed service in the cloud that we're calling ClickHouse Cloud.”
Spotify analysis shows weather changes directly affect user music choices
“Weather does affect how people listen. We had a partnership with AccuWeather, I think it was last year, and we did some analysis just in Chicago to understand, so when the weather changes, right, do people change what they listen to, and the answer is yes.”
Spotify listeners consistently return to music from their teenage years
“Regardless of how old you are, at least on Spotify, people keep going back to the music that they came out during their high school, during their teenage years”
Christine Hung: Spotify has 150M monthly active users across 60+ countries
“At Spotify alone, we now have a hundred and a hundred and fifty million active monthly users streaming from more than 60 countries.”
Spotify plans to shift focus toward music creators over the next decade
“And I would say for the next 10 years, we want to focus more on the creators, right?”
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”
Hung: Predictive targeting for Spotify Xbox launch boosted engagement and lowered opt-outs
“So we saw a significant increase in cross-device usage, which is what you always want. We saw a much higher engagement rate, and we were able to dramatically reduce the email opt-out rates as well, because the messaging was really relevant.”