Presenting: Pop Culture Happy Hour, on Spotify's corporate ad game, 'Wrapped'

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🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Our friends at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast take a look Spotify's annual end-of-year event, and viral sensation, 'Wrapped.' In 2019 the service started pairing its year-end listening data with eye-catching and extremely shareable graphics. But, when the algorithm curates so much of our listening experience... are we just creating a perpetual feedback loop?

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0:00.0	Hey Robin, check it out!
0:07.0	Bob, what are you doing in that trailer truck?
0:10.8	I've just come from the all songs considered warehouse, you know, where we keep all the albums
0:15.4	and all the songs we've played over the years.
0:17.2	I've filled the truck with boxes and boxes of records so I can drive around the country
0:21.9	and deliver copies for all of our listeners to hear.
0:25.5	I mean, I know we love to get more music from more artists.
0:29.9	Out to more people, but there's a much easier way to do this.
0:33.9	What do you mean?
0:34.9	Look, we have the all songs considered podcasts, yeah.
0:38.0	If listeners just support the podcast, they can help ensure they'll keep hearing new musical
0:42.5	discoveries by artists from all over the world.
0:45.8	All they have to do is make a donation to the public radio station of their choice.
0:50.2	So how would they do that?
0:51.7	Just go to donate.npr.org slash music to get started.
0:55.9	You make a donation and help get more voices and more music to more people.
1:00.7	And you can do it from anywhere, your home or anywhere.
1:02.9	You don't need this truck.
1:03.9	Amazing, so that's donate.npr.org slash music.
1:08.0	donate.npr.org slash music.
1:11.1	Go now!
1:12.1	I'm on my way!
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