Search & Recommendations

Search & recommendations research at Spotify focuses on identifying ways to provide users with seamless access to their favorite creative  content, from music to podcasts and audiobooks. Our primary focus is on building highly effective, personalized and interactive models that exploit contextual information and historical user interactions. Our research interests include large-scale recommendation algorithms for all audio and video discovery, algorithms for search through voice and text, query analysis for effective query suggestion, query completion and search assistance, multilingual information retrieval for voice search, and ranking algorithms for promotions and advertisements that balance economic trade-offs at scale.