The Ledger

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Assertion Supported
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?”
Christine Hung Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 16:58 You Are What You Stream // Christine Hung, Spotify (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
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.”
Aaron Katz Jun 13, 2024 ▶ 2:05 How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
Assertion Supported
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.”
Christine Hung Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 1:02 You Are What You Stream // Christine Hung, Spotify (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
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”
Christine Hung Oct 26, 2017 ▶ 16:03 You Are What You Stream // Christine Hung, Spotify (FirstMark's Data Driven)
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