Apr 8, 2025
Text2Tracks: Improving Prompt-based Music Recommendations with Generative Retrieval
Imagine asking your music app to “play some old-school rock ballads to relax” and instantly receiving the...
Feb 4, 2025
Bridging the Product & Research gap - Part I: Demystifying Product for Researchers
About the author: Henrik Lindström is a Principal Product Manager, currently serving as the Product Lead for...
Dec 18, 2024
Contextualized Recommendations Through Personalized Narratives using LLMs
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), offers new opportunities...
Oct 24, 2024
PODTILE: Facilitating Podcast Episode Browsing with Auto-generated Chapters
Listeners often find it challenging to navigate long podcast episodes due to their long duration. This makes...
Oct 21, 2024
Bridging Search and Recommendation with Generative Retrieval
Search engines and recommendation systems use different signals to represent users and catalog items,...
Jun 6, 2024
Socially-Motivated Music Recommendation
tldr - The wide variety of reasons people listen to music include both individual motivations, like...
May 21, 2024
Exploring Local Music’s Place in Global Streaming
tldr – Music has always been intertwined with place and culture. Now that digital streaming has made it...
May 10, 2024
Personalizing Audiobooks and Podcasts with graph-based models
Spotify's catalog includes millions of music tracks and podcasts and has recently expanded to Audiobooks....
May 9, 2024
Estimating long-term outcome of algorithms
There are numerous scenarios where the short- and long-term consequences of an algorithm can differ. To...
May 7, 2024
In-context Exploration-Exploitation for Reinforcement Learning
Machine learning (ML) models are widely used on Spotify to provide users with a daily personalized listening...
May 2, 2024
How do people stream newly released music?
The rise of on-demand music streaming supported by novel recommendation algorithms has transformed music...
Feb 23, 2024
Accelerating Creator Audience Building through Centralized Exploration
TL;DR: Across a broad spectrum of product features, Spotify’s array of recommender systems play a pivotal...