‘Just The Way You Are’: Music Listening and Personality
December 15, 2020 10:54 am Leave your thoughtsMusic is such a core part of culture and everyday experience that it has long been believed to be connected... View Article
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Spotify’s Contributions to NeurIPS 2020
December 7, 2020 7:02 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020) begins this week, and we are excited to be a... View Article
Algorithmic Effects on the Diversity of Consumption on Spotify
December 3, 2020 10:11 am Leave your thoughtsOn Spotify, people are spoiled for choice: there are millions of songs by millions of artists that they can listen... View Article
Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke: Head of Tech Research
September 28, 2020 3:27 pm Leave your thoughts7.30 am I like to get up early and have a bit of time to myself in the mornings –... View Article
The Million Playlist Dataset… Remastered
September 28, 2020 9:52 am Leave your thoughtsIn 2018, Spotify helped organize the RecSys Challenge 2018, a data science research challenge focused on music recommendation, specifically the... View Article
Spotify’s Contributions to RecSys 2020
September 21, 2020 12:45 pm Leave your thoughtsThe 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020) begins this week, and we are excited to be a Platinum... View Article
Understanding by Unmixing
August 25, 2020 1:19 pm Leave your thoughtsMaking sense of music by extracting and analyzing individual instruments in a song Source Separation at Spotify At the end... View Article
Giving Voice to Silent Data: Designing with Personal Music Listening History
May 15, 2020 11:10 am Leave your thoughts“Silent” data shapes our listening experiences To drive personalization and help listeners discover music, Spotify and other music streaming services... View Article
Local Trends in Global Music Streaming
May 1, 2020 8:16 pm Leave your thoughtsGoing back to the earliest forms of recorded music, technology has made it progressively easier for countries around the world... View Article
Do podcasts and music compete with one another? Understanding users’ audio streaming habits
April 20, 2020 11:35 am Leave your thoughtsBecause Spotify offers both music and podcast content on the same platform, we have a unique view into people’s audio... View Article
Spotify at RecSys 2019
October 1, 2019 3:54 pm Leave your thoughtsSpotify was out in full force at RecSys in Copenhagen. The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) is the premier... View Article
Environmental Changes and the Dynamics of Musical Identity
July 6, 2019 7:10 pm Leave your thoughts“What kind of music do you like?” When getting to know someone, music is often one of the very first... View Article
Deriving User- and Content-specific Rewards for Contextual Bandits
May 1, 2019 7:26 pm Leave your thoughtsGiven the overwhelming choices faced by users on what to watch, read and listen to online, recommender systems play a... View Article
Towards a Fair Marketplace: Trade-off between Relevance, Fairness & Satisfaction in RecSys
October 22, 2018 4:35 pm Leave your thoughtsTwo-sided marketplaces act as intermediaries that help facilitate economic interaction between two sets of agents; for example, consumers and suppliers,... View Article
Understanding and Evaluating User Satisfaction with Music Discovery
July 8, 2018 4:31 pm Leave your thoughtsIf you’re a Spotify user, you may be familiar with Discover Weekly—your weekly, personalized playlist of music you’ve never heard... View Article