Spotify seeds in-house produced music in playlists created for “passive consumption” so they can pay themselves for your streams

Spotify seeds in-house produced music in playlists created for “passive consumption” so they can pay themselves for your streams https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally

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These in-house artists are Shopify's version of "Amazon Basics". Love it.

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But no. That’s not a correct comparison because they try to hide this. If the artist was correctly attributed “Spotify Studios” it would be this way but they hide behind fake names trying to deceive the user into thinking it’s an actual artist

Competing unfairly & disclosing it still seems shady.

They both created an efficient online marketplace, then expanded it to more markets, and are now competing unfairly within those markets.

Putting an "I cheated" sign on the first result doesn't move the needle much.