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Yes, there are some very popular white and ambient noise casts on Spotify. Just like with every other genre, however, for every one creator that's extremely pro

Yes, there are some very popular white and ambient noise casts on Spotify. Just like with every other genre, however, for every one creator that's extremely profitable and successful, there are thousands who are not. So if your takeaway is 'huh, I should go throw up some generated noise on Anchor/Spotify', don't expect to make any kind of money from it. This is as true for white noise as it it for any other genre, so I genuinely don't see the newsworthiness here, other than it's treated as a revelation that people like white noise (for an array of reasons).

1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
The "newsworthiness" is promotion of Spotify. This is how many "tech" companies that sell advertising services promote their websites. Like a lottery. They do not have to pay out to every person who submits user-generated content,1 but if they pay out to a small number they can use those examples, "winners", to draw others in. Ideally the "tech" company only wants a limited number of "viral" pages so as to maximise the reach of advertising via those pages. Even if there are 10,000 pages serving white noise, the "tech" company may actively funnel visitors to only a small number, creating ideal conditions for maximum advertising reach.2 (And probably excluding many interesting pages as a result.3) As alluded to in the parent comment, most pages will get too little traffic to generate significant advertising reach and will not pay out "$18K a month". 1. As with lotteries, there are odds. But unlike lotteries, there is no requirement to publish them. Moreover, the "lottery" here is non-transparent. Traffic could be manipulated by the "tech" company behind-the-scenes and the public would never know the details. 2. Of course, the company can claim it does not actively manipulate traffic, e.g., through search and/or "recommendations", but rather computers do, through "algorithms", "AI", "magic" or whatever euphemism they choose for the decision-making and computer programming that their employees perform. 3. Anecdote: Some of the best YouTube and SoundCloud pages I have found, by accessing these websites without using a popular web browser, have very low view numbers. Friends are often intrigued with how I found them. It appears others are getting funneled to the viral crap.
- tangjurine 4y ago
  What do you mean by: >by accessing these websites without using a popular web browser
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  - 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
    Popular browsers: Safari, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, and so on. Generally, browsers that automatically navigate to addresses, e.g., via redirects, and/or make HTTP requests not specified by the user, e.g., by automatically executing others' Javascripts.
ge96 4y ago
Used to work 3rd shift, white noise to sleep and blackened windows

1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago

The "newsworthiness" is promotion of Spotify. This is how many "tech" companies that sell advertising services promote their websites. Like a lottery. They do not have to pay out to every person who submits user-generated content,1 but if they pay out to a small number they can use those examples, "winners", to draw others in. Ideally the "tech" company only wants a limited number of "viral" pages so as to maximise the reach of advertising via those pages. Even if there are 10,000 pages serving white noise, the "tech" company may actively funnel visitors to only a small number, creating ideal conditions for maximum advertising reach.2 (And probably excluding many interesting pages as a result.3) As alluded to in the parent comment, most pages will get too little traffic to generate significant advertising reach and will not pay out "$18K a month". 1. As with lotteries, there are odds. But unlike lotteries, there is no requirement to publish them. Moreover, the "lottery" here is non-transparent. Traffic could be manipulated by the "tech" company behind-the-scenes and the public would never know the details. 2. Of course, the company can claim it does not actively manipulate traffic, e.g., through search and/or "recommendations", but rather computers do, through "algorithms", "AI", "magic" or whatever euphemism they choose for the decision-making and computer programming that their employees perform. 3. Anecdote: Some of the best YouTube and SoundCloud pages I have found, by accessing these websites without using a popular web browser, have very low view numbers. Friends are often intrigued with how I found them. It appears others are getting funneled to the viral crap.

tangjurine 4y ago
What do you mean by: >by accessing these websites without using a popular web browser
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- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
  Popular browsers: Safari, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Brave, and so on. Generally, browsers that automatically navigate to addresses, e.g., via redirects, and/or make HTTP requests not specified by the user, e.g., by automatically executing others' Javascripts.

ge96 4y ago

Used to work 3rd shift, white noise to sleep and blackened windows