When I was living in Tampa ~30 years ago, there were certainly a lot of "hot hits" type stations, but there was a great commercial AOR station I listened to more often - and a few years later I discovered WMNF, an eclectic non-commercial community station that played virtually anything depending on which show you found. I think it depends a lot on the radio stations that happen(ed) to be available in your listening area. oh and let's give an extra in-your-face boost to King's Gambler to give it that extra buzz that lands us in Variety"ĭiscovery is hard, and once you made a name there, it's rather easy to screw it up by monetizing it.
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But if I scroll through their experience with my personal account in 2021, I basically still get "what all others are currently watching in now" and I'm less than thrilled.Īnd that's exactly because once you've got the perfect algo together that would be able to recommend you that niche movie Netflix features you've never seen in the interface that you're _really_ interested in (I can recommend "Last Breath" in that regard), the VP Content comes in and tells everyone something like "hey folks, whatever you do, make sure you're only promoting our originals, because they cost us far less in licensing. If anything, it's usually an upsell to monetizing the content itself, which is why the only serious contenders to me here are basically Youtube and Spotify.Įven Netflix "had it all" with the million dollar recommender prize they set out in 2014, and I know their data science team is top notch. It takes a lot of effort, data and persistence to get reasonable algorithms churning out something sensible and then, nobody wants to pay for it.
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I'm working on the topic day to day in an adjacent field (movie & TV show discovery) and I'm currently not aware of any startup that has managed making money with the discovery experience itself. The issue here is that no matter how "engaging" discovery is, it's not a viable business model on its own. But discovery by its very nature is not hands-off. For the "hands-off" experience, it's fine. Indie/college radio DJs do it all the time, but Spotify never does.īut again, Spotify is trying to sell millions of subscriptions for people who just want something to listen to in the car or put on at their dinner party. The algorithms are good at guessing that if I like the Zombies, I'll like the Turtles (which is true) but it never jumps to (for instance) current, contemporary indie/DIY stuff that is influenced by '60s rock and '70s punk. But it's rare that I'm introduced to something new that I like. That's not to say that various curated playlists and algorithmic suggestions are useless. So for "discovery" to be a viable product I think it has to somehow be at least as engaging as any of these more traditional ways. pawing through a stack of records at a flea market listening alone while reading liner notesĥ. And there is no comparison between the one- or two-dimensional "discovery" offered by social media and streaming platforms and the rich discovery experiences of any of the following:Ĥ.
For myself and a lot of people I know, discovery is nearly as much a reward as the music itself.
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