Hello to Spotify's new curation and moderation policies. Goodbye to Spotify's Greenroom creator fund and Facebook's podcasts.

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Notes & Links: 

1. Spotify Selling Vapourware Again!?


In June 2021, Spotify announced the Spotify Greenroom Creator
Fund for US creators to “support and reward creators for the
communities they build and the experiences they create”, as part
of the launch of Spotify Greenroom. However, the fund never
launched; and yesterday, Spotify emailed applicants, admitting
that the program had been cancelled.



2. Gaming the Spotify Algorithm?


There’s a new global #1 - the Brazilian artist Anitta’s
Envolver. How did Anitta do it? By apparently asking her fans to
game the Spotify algorithms  -
https://charts.spotify.com



3.  Spotify Moderation ?


Spotify has quietly rolled-out a new misinformation policy
that says it may hide shows, or in their words “restrict
content’s discoverability”. NiemanLab has discovered the
company’s new rules, which Spotify have yet to announce: and nor
have they added them to their public Platform Rules page.


The Brookings Institution has written a new document that
highlights current platform policies, describes how Spotify and
Apple allow listeners to report shows, and suggests areas that
policy-makers might focus on.



4.  Spotify Curation?


How do the Spotify team decide which podcasts to promote?
Spotify for Podcasters describes what you can do to be
considered.


Higher Ground, Barack and Michelle Obama’s production
company, is to leave Spotify, says Ashley Carman at Bloomberg



5. Goodbye Facebook Podcasts?


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