This is a problem we're facing with a few of our smaller artists: some bot playlister puts them on their playlist for a few hours, they get a couple thousand streams and if the artist is curious, s.he goes on her SFA page, sees where these streams come from and contacts the playlister who then asks her for a fee to include her song and g…
This is a problem we're facing with a few of our smaller artists: some bot playlister puts them on their playlist for a few hours, they get a couple thousand streams and if the artist is curious, s.he goes on her SFA page, sees where these streams come from and contacts the playlister who then asks her for a fee to include her song and get her more streams.
Most of the time, artists ignore this, but more and more they get a warning or worse, a takedown notice, from Spotify.
So Spotify is blaming the artists when they should be blaming these playlisters. I fail to understand how they can't see that these playlists are obviously bot-fueled, and why they don't attack the problem at the root instead of attacking and taking down the artists...
TBH I think the only solution here can be provided by Spotify because they are the platform provider, and therefore the only people who can (I assume) see more info on where plays are coming from etc.
The question however is whether Spotify can be bothered to improve the whole setup (if we assume that 1, they have been working to combat fraud already, and 2, clearly aren't doing a great job if stuff like this keeps happening)
This is a problem we're facing with a few of our smaller artists: some bot playlister puts them on their playlist for a few hours, they get a couple thousand streams and if the artist is curious, s.he goes on her SFA page, sees where these streams come from and contacts the playlister who then asks her for a fee to include her song and get her more streams.
Most of the time, artists ignore this, but more and more they get a warning or worse, a takedown notice, from Spotify.
So Spotify is blaming the artists when they should be blaming these playlisters. I fail to understand how they can't see that these playlists are obviously bot-fueled, and why they don't attack the problem at the root instead of attacking and taking down the artists...
TBH I think the only solution here can be provided by Spotify because they are the platform provider, and therefore the only people who can (I assume) see more info on where plays are coming from etc.
The question however is whether Spotify can be bothered to improve the whole setup (if we assume that 1, they have been working to combat fraud already, and 2, clearly aren't doing a great job if stuff like this keeps happening)