6.00 am Four weeks into our road trip, we’re camped out in Ely, Nevada – beautiful, mountainous and brutally cold right... View Article
Using a music listening dataset from Spotify, we observe that consumption from the recent past and session-level contextual variables (such... View Article
At Spotify, we invest into designing recommendation algorithms that allow users to explore the music space more effectively. Recent findings... View Article
On online platforms such as Spotify, users have access to large collections of content. Most of the time, these collections... View Article
7.00 am Time to wake up, make breakfast and start thinking about the day ahead. Because I’m interested in voice technology,... View Article
Search plays an important role in surfacing content in front of users. Typical of most search and recommender systems, there... View Article
Algorithmically generated recommendations power and shape the bulk of music consumption on music streaming platforms. The ability to shift consumption... View Article
Topic models are useful tools for the statistical analysis of data as well as learning a compact representation of co-occurring... View Article
Music is such a core part of culture and everyday experience that it has long been believed to be connected... View Article
The Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020) begins this week, and we are excited to be a... View Article
On Spotify, people are spoiled for choice: there are millions of songs by millions of artists that they can listen... View Article
7.30 am I like to get up early and have a bit of time to myself in the mornings –... View Article
In 2018, Spotify helped organize the RecSys Challenge 2018, a data science research challenge focused on music recommendation, specifically the... View Article
The 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020) begins this week, and we are excited to be a Platinum... View Article
Making sense of music by extracting and analyzing individual instruments in a song Source Separation at Spotify At the end... View Article
“Silent” data shapes our listening experiences To drive personalization and help listeners discover music, Spotify and other music streaming services... View Article
Going back to the earliest forms of recorded music, technology has made it progressively easier for countries around the world... View Article
Because Spotify offers both music and podcast content on the same platform, we have a unique view into people’s audio... View Article
7:30 I like to start the day slowly – I’m not a morning person, so my husband kindly walks the dogs... View Article
Spotify was out in full force at RecSys in Copenhagen. The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) is the premier... View Article
“What kind of music do you like?” When getting to know someone, music is often one of the very first... View Article
Given the overwhelming choices faced by users on what to watch, read and listen to online, recommender systems play a... View Article
Two-sided marketplaces act as intermediaries that help facilitate economic interaction between two sets of agents; for example, consumers and suppliers,... View Article
If you’re a Spotify user, you may be familiar with Discover Weekly—your weekly, personalized playlist of music you’ve never heard... View Article