Jaeden Schaefer

I want to kick this off talking about Spotify's new feature.

They have these AI powered, they call them prompted playlists, and they're rolling out to premium subscribers.

It's not for everyone.

And it's specifically in the UK, Ireland, Australia and Sweden.

They did some earlier tests in New Zealand and they've launched this in the US and Canada.

So they're rolling this out more broadly for the US and Canada.

You should have access to this already.

It's pretty straightforward.

Basically, instead of going and just searching for different playlists, which is what I will typically do, it will use AI to create them from scratch.

Now, there's a bunch of pros and cons for this.

And I mean, I'll automatically admit my bias in this.

I've actually spent a decent amount of money invested into creating playlists and promoting them to get users to follow these playlists.

And then if you have music that you put into that playlist, it automatically gets listened to.

So this is a good way to get music listened to.

Obviously, you got to make good stuff that follows inside of your genre that your followers will like.

But doing these AI playlists essentially kind of kills off that entire industry or that entire way of

making content.

Now, if I'm being honest, I think that this is probably where the future goes in a way.

And that's because oftentimes, you know, as myself, as someone that is a playlist creator, they're called playlist curators.

I sometimes get really busy and I don't update my playlist for a month.