Spotify’s Editorial Playlists Are Losing Influence Amid AI Expansion
The streaming giant’s shift to automation is impacting the supremacy of curated music selections
The Spotify application in the Apple App Store on a smartphone
Photographer: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/BloombergWelcome back to Soundbite, and happy New Year! What will 2024 bring? I’m not one for predictions, but a few of the conversations I’ll be watching in this newsletter over the next 12 months are the realities of subscriptions in podcasting, the evolving economics of audiobooks as Spotify enters the fray and the politics of artificial intelligence. Will a federal right of publicity law happen? And how will decisions like that impact both digital creators and musicians?
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