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The Scroll
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Music as tap water
Spotify for Sport anyone?
This is from something Jimmy Iovine said on a podcast.
Since the labels lost control of the formats, tech companies commoditised the product.
Look at the video streaming wars. Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus are in a bloodbath. But they have a distinct weapon: Differentiation. If you want to watch Stranger Things, you need Netflix. If you want The Last of Us, you need HBO. Yet, if you look at music: Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Tidal all offer the exact same product: A library of 100 million
Football creator family tree
Nice post on the connections beneath the football banter industrial complex, as I'm now calling it.
@barnabyslater An origin story linking Goldbridge to True Geordie and Steven Bartlett?! 🍿 #theclub #thekickoff #thetruegeordie #markgoldbridge #theunitedstand
♬ Looming - Perfect, so dystopian
The most addictive algorithm ever built
I found an answer to a question I ask every day, usually when I'm about half an hour in to doom scrolling Spurs clips and dogs welcoming their owners back from war: What makes TikTok so addictive?
@asianbossmedia TikTok isn’t just addictive by accident. Its algorithm is constantly learning, testing, and adapting to keep you scrolling — often without you realizing it. #bytedance #tiktok #socialmedia #addictive #algorithm
♬ original sound - Asian Boss - Asian Boss
TikTok isn't playing the same game as everyone else.
The platform's recommendation engine, known internally as Monolith, doesn't care who your friends are. It doesn't
