@9to5Mac Siri has some redeeming qualities. One of them is NOT the ability to actually play the song or artist you ask for.

For me the hit rate is < 50% when I ask Siri to play a song that is already in my library (and I tell Siri that) or a Playlist that I’ve created. Instead Siri insists on playing some new hip-hop, rap or pop release. So I have to pickup the phone or stop the car, which I was trying to avoid. Siri is good at starting timers, that’s it. #SiriSucks #payola

As reported on by Louis Rossman, #YouTube is now pushing the same #payola scam that #Amazon #Kindle did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wFqblQY6Dk

EEVBlog actually bought into this as an experiment and his video did WORSE than projected without ads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxvXaqJnSrY

I think I have an idea as to why. Do you remember how Canada Bill #C11 was going to screw over Canadian creators by having their videos served to people who don't want them? I think buying YouTube ads for your own video does the same thing.

"Little Star" is a song recorded by #TheElegants. Members #VitoPicone and Arthur Venosa co-wrote the lyrics. The music was adapted from "#TwinkleTwinkleLittleStar". When released as a single in #1958, it topped both the R&B Best Sellers list and the Billboard Hot 100; however, it was the only song that ever charted for The Elegants. Reportedly, the Elegants refused to pay #payola to a prominent New York disc jockey.
https://youtu.be/NLuayEmiems

#KammerflimmerKollektief ‎– Untitled 12inch on #Payola 1996
https://youtu.be/H1HraD5Mab4

Snap's #AI is just trying to get you to buy stuff now. "Snap says if you’re using My AI to figure out what to have for dinner, the bot might suggest a sponsored link that leads to a local restaurant or delivery app" #payola https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709388/snapchat-my-ai-sponsored-links-test-chatbot

Googbook serves as a broker between advertisers and publishers, targeting ads based on the surveillance data they amass or purchase on billions of internet users. Amazon does a little of that, but it's main "advertising" business isn't advertising at all - it's #payola.

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People who like having to #PayToPlay and #PayToVote will LOVE the changes #ElmoMush is making to the #BirdSite 👉 https://www.thestar.com/business/2023/03/28/elon-musk-says-only-verified-twitter-accounts-will-appear-in-for-you-feed-be-able-to-vote-in-polls.html

#Payola and #JimCrow are back!

@DemiLovato @TheWeeknd Girly we need to convince him to feature us! He has #payola!

I NEVER FOR 1 SECOND trusted #EdwardSnowden #LimitedHangOut

Also note the guy selling Woohoo flu #china-bashing agitprop for the NYTimes, Michael R. Gordon, was Judith Miller's bff publishing #Pentagon Iraq #propaganda 4 #Payola. She went. He didn't. Forbes has Covid facts below in self-reply... namely The Coronavirus Was Detected In Sewage In March 2019 Far From Wuhan, China". 2019, a year before Pandemic

"Edward Snowden Signs On To Distribute US Gov Propaganda" https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/02/edward-snowdon-signs-up-to-distribute-us-gov-propaganda.html

Half the results on the first five screens of an Amazon search result are ads. Amazon's business customers spend $31b/year on #payola, bidding to be at the top of Amazon's search results: the top results aren't the best matches to your search, they're the matches that are most profitable for Amazon.

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#SocialMedia #TikTok #Payola: "...in addition to letting the algorithm decide what goes viral, staff at TikTok and ByteDance also secretly hand-pick specific videos and supercharge their distribution, using a practice known internally as “heating.”
(...)
TikTok has never publicly disclosed that it engages in heating — and while all tech giants engage, to some degree, in efforts to amplify specific posts to their users, they usually clearly label when they do so. Google, Meta, and TikTok itself, for example, have partnered with public health and elections groups to distribute accurate information about COVID-19 and help users find their polling place, making clear disclosures about how and why they chose to promote these messages. (Disclaimer: In a former life, I held policy positions at Facebook and Spotify.)

But sources told Forbes that TikTok has often used heating to court influencers and brands, enticing them into partnerships by inflating their videos’ view count. This suggests that heating has potentially benefitted some influencers and brands — those with whom TikTok has sought business relationships — at the expense of others with whom it has not."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tiktoks-secret-heating-button-can-make-anyone-go-viral/?sh=305043166bfd

Sooner or later, this will be resolved by cold, hard cash. #payola https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/conservatives-warn-mccarthy-dont-votes-speaker-rcna57171 #cspanwj

@Willems in essentie niet nee, ik leef voor mijn muziek maar had er toch een lief ding voor gegeven er van te kunnen leven!! ipv dat het geld kost om geluisterd te worden #payola #radio #streamingsdiensten

If Spotify played you the albums you searched for, it couldn't redirect you to playlists artists have to shell out #payola to be included on:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/12/streaming-doesnt-pay/#stunt-publishing

And if you only see what you ask for, then product managers whose #KPI is whether they entice you to "discover" something else won't get a bonus every time you fatfinger a part of your screen that navigates you away from the thing you specifically requested:

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-fatfinger-economy-7c7b3b54925c

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Just looked at the "Your top songs 2022" playlist Spotify has made for me and it's full of stuff I've listened to once or maybe twice. Seriously Spotify you putting a song in a Discover playlist and me playing it doesn't make it one of my top songs!?

#SpotifyWrappedBullshit #SpotifyWrapped #Payola #music

That's when a company captures an audience in a walled garden and then extracts value from creators who want to reach them, even when the audience *requests* a creator's work. With Spotify, that manifests as #payola, where creators have to pay for inclusion on playlists. Spotify uses playlists to manipulate audiences into listening to soundalikes, silently replacing the ambient artists that listeners tune in to hear with work-for-hire musicians who don't get royalties.

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Payola Then and Now

In November 1959 the U.S. House Oversight Committee initiated hearings. Back in those days of yore it was not about some political malfeasance or attempts to undermine the political order.

Rather it was about radio. Primarily AM radio. Although the first Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license for an FM station went to WDNG on November 14, 1938—in Anniston, Alaba...

Read more: https://gloriousnoise.com/2022/payola-then-and-now

#AlanFreed #FCC #FTC #iHeartRadio #payola #radio

Payola Then and Now

In November 1959 the U.S. House Oversight Committee initiated hearings. Back in those days of yore it was not about some political malfeasance or attempts to undermine the political order.

Rather it was about radio. Primarily AM radio. Although the first Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license for an FM station went to WDNG on November 14, 1938—in Anniston, Alabama*, which is...

Read more: https://gloriousnoise.com/2022/payola-then-and-now

#AlanFreed #FCC #FTC #payola #radio

The answer is in Amazon's $31b "ad" business. Amazon touts this widely, and analysts repeat it without any critical interrogation, proclaiming that Amazon is catching up with the #Googbook #AdTech #duopoly. But nearly all of that "ad" business isn't ads at all - it's #payola.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/not-an-ad/#shakedowns

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#music #musicindustry #racism #1950s
#TourFromHell #royaltytheft
#TheDayTheMusicDied
#HarassmentOfBillieHolliday
#payola

The Messed Up Truth About The 1950s Music Industry

The social landscape in the early 1950s was shifting. The end of WWII signaled a time of economic growth, and technology was advancing — TVs were becoming co...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJjEF6SuuSQ