Spotify responds to backlash over public podcast play counts

Stain declared Last week, in all podcasts, «’Count the public game as a way to help attract new fans. However, the podcasters, critical of the new feature – mainly when applying less to new audience, he said he would further encourage the podcasts with a great audience.

Friday, Spotify Changed In their plans, but did not take the idea completely. Now the number of games will appear only in the shows with at least 50,000 plays each. Instead of counting the exact game, the destination will only update in special stages such as 100,000 or 1 million plays.

“We plan to visit this newly developed version of this newly developed version in the coming week” The company wrote in A Blog Post. “This update reflects our evolving efforts to give the best concepts and an open experience for fans for the creators.”

For decades, the Podcast Hosting platforms did not share many public indicators of popularity – Apple podcasts, for example, there were feedback and graphics in its application, but it would be difficult to know whether a show is ten or tens of thousands of spectators.

Spotify, although this uncertainty takes the angle where there is a loss, the creators were taken to the podcasting environment, unlike other forms of other online media. When someone plays on the YouTube video, for example, how many views of videos are approached with the current knowledge about the existence of how many considerations and how many people. However, podcasting can raise the play area for more niche creators.

Podcasters said they were disappointed with the lack of a “stream” or “stream” or “stream” between different platforms, or “stream”.

The interactive advertising bureau (IAB) works with Podcast platforms to create an accurate metric as a “play” as “play” between podcasters and advertisers. However, according to DlewsThe definition of the “play” is different in Spotify and YouTube – the most popular Podcast is different from two – IAB standard.

Spotify belongs to the number of number of game counts, “People are actively tested”, streams and download are only after a 60-second tab.