> their goal is [...] minimizing the unprofitable thing (song plays).
If that's the case, how do you explain those two features :
- the repeat button
- the "automatically play similar songs" option
In the first case, since I don't know how it works, maybe they have to pay only one time for a song per user listening to it during a period (say a month). But I doubt it.
In the second case, it's Spotify explicitly saying : "here are songs you don't intended to play but that we picked automatically and are playing to you".
If you look at Netflix, sure they have the feature that automatically launch the next episode. Or they try weird stuff like live or play anything... But they also have the "Are you still watching ?" feature, to make sure that they don't display content to an empty room.
Spotify doesn't have that, it can just play songs indefinitely without any human interaction.
If that's the case, how do you explain those two features : - the repeat button - the "automatically play similar songs" option
In the first case, since I don't know how it works, maybe they have to pay only one time for a song per user listening to it during a period (say a month). But I doubt it. In the second case, it's Spotify explicitly saying : "here are songs you don't intended to play but that we picked automatically and are playing to you".
If you look at Netflix, sure they have the feature that automatically launch the next episode. Or they try weird stuff like live or play anything... But they also have the "Are you still watching ?" feature, to make sure that they don't display content to an empty room. Spotify doesn't have that, it can just play songs indefinitely without any human interaction.
So, I don't know.