Apple Music announces a new deal with the NBA to create an exclusive playlist. The war for music streaming services to differentiate themselves is on. Yesterday Spotify announced a pet playlist generator for pet owners everywhere. Today Apple is taking…
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Spotify Now Offers Playlists For Pets – But Why?
Spotify is debuting a new playlist generator to create a playlist for pets. Users can choose to create a Spotify pet playlist for five different types of pets. A new Spotify pet playlist website has launched to help Spotify users get started. Users can…
Is YouTube Music Finally Getting A Cloud Locker Feature?
Google has slowly improved YouTube Music with personalized mixes and more. However, the cloud locker feature available in Google Play Music is still absent. Now an APK teardown performed by 9to5Google reveals the feature may be coming soon. Version 3.4…
Spotify Under Fire For User-Created Pro-Nazi and Anti-Semitic Playlists
Spotify hosting Nazi playlists? Several user-generated playlists available to the public drew criticism after a newspaper pointed out the rampant anti-Semitic content. The Times of Israel pointed out several publicly available playlists on Spotify with…
SoundCloud Track Editing for iOS Introduced, Edit Your Music On The Go
SoundCloud has expanded its mobile workflow tools with new track editing for iOS. The track editing feature is ‘coming soon’ to Android devices. For now, artists can edit their SoundCloud tracks while on the go on iOS. Change the album art,…
TikTok Says It Will Ban Holocaust Denial and Other Conspiracy Theories
An updated set of community guidelines reveals TikTok will explicitly ban conspiracy theories going forward. The move comes as Facebook and YouTube are struggling with their own moderation scandals. A new rule in TikTok’s community guidelines hi…
Spotify Looks to Monetize Podcasts With New ‘Streaming Ad Insertion’ Tech
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Spotify announced new ad-tech to monetize podcasts. Streaming Ad Insertion (SAI) tech will help further monetize podcasts available on Spotify’s platform. The new ad tech fundamentally changes …
French Montana’s “Writing on the Wall” Flooded by Fake Spotify Streams – But Who’s Doing It?
A Twitter thread alleges French Montana’s song “Writing on the Wall” is trending because of fake Spotify streams. The song is trending on TikTok, but streams are only rising on Spotify. The thread highlights the difference between Spo…
ByteDance Has Secretly Created a ‘Deep Fakes’ Maker For TikTok & Douyin
A new report suggests TikTok’s parent company has built a tool to make deep fakes easier than ever. The face swap tool allows users to insert themselves into a video that isn’t their own. The code for the face swap technology was found in b…
What Chinese Spying Concern? Justin Bieber Officially Joins TikTok
Justin Bieber has officially joined TikTok. The singer has already garnered 600K followers to help promote his latest track. Ahead of the release of “Yummy,” the 25-year-old joined TikTok to reach a new audience. Less than 24 hours after th…