Apr 23, 2025
Celebrating Five Years of Backstage: From Open Source Project to Enterprise Business
Did you know that we sell Spotify’s developer productivity tools and support to other companies, from online...
Dec 12, 2024
Building Confidence: A Case Study in How to Create Confidence Scores for GenAI Applications
TL;DR Getting a response from GenAI is quick and straightforward. But what about the confidence level for...
Oct 21, 2024
How We Generated Millions of Content Annotations
With the fields of machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) continuing to rapidly evolve and expand,...
Nov 7, 2023
How We Automated Content Marketing to Acquire Users at Scale
Spotify runs paid marketing campaigns across the globe on various digital ad platforms like Facebook, Google...
Oct 25, 2023
Introducing Voyager: Spotify’s New Nearest-Neighbor Search Library
For the past decade, Spotify has used approximate nearest-neighbor search technology to power our...
Oct 20, 2023
Exclude from Your Taste Profile
Are you a parent forced to put the Bluey theme song on repeat? Do you work from home and play lofi beats or...
Jun 28, 2023
Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging
At Spotify, we use messaging to communicate with our listeners all over the world. Our Messaging team powers...
Apr 27, 2023
Humans + Machines: A Look Behind the Playlists Powered by Spotify’s Algotorial Technology
TL;DR Since 2017, Spotify has been working to create a better listening experience for our users by creating...
Apr 13, 2023
Large-Scale Generation of ML Podcast Previews at Spotify with Google Dataflow
As of March 8, 2023, Spotify has started serving short previews for music, podcasts, and audiobooks on the...
Feb 1, 2023
Unleashing ML Innovation at Spotify with Ray
As the field of machine learning (ML) continues to evolve and its impact on society and various aspects of...
Sep 29, 2022
Lessons Learned from Algorithmic Impact Assessments in Practice
TL;DR Understanding algorithmic impact is critical to building a platform that serves hundreds of millions of...
Jun 1, 2022
Meet Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter
Introducing , Spotify’s free open source tool for converting audio into MIDI. Basic Pitch uses machine...
Mar 17, 2022
Introducing Natural Language Search for Podcast Episodes
Until recently, Search at Spotify relied mostly on term matching. For example, if you type the query...