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Why Does Spotify Keep Recommending Drake? A New Class Action Challenges “Pay-for-Play” Regime
06 Nov 2025 01:47 GMT
… preferential algorithmic placement.
The pay-for-play regime was further cemented … the feature to the radio payola scandals that marred … labels would pay radio stations for spins without … consideration in limited contexts: Radio, Autoplay, and certain Mixes …
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Spotify Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Discovery Mode Is A ‘Pay-For-Play Scheme’
05 Nov 2025 22:57 GMT
… Mode of being a “pay-for-play scheme” and said the … Spotify’s algorithmically generated radio, playlist or autoplay features … form of payola—the illegal practice of paying radio stations … consideration in limited contexts: Radio, Autoplay, and certain Mixes …
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EXCLUSIVE: Spotify Denies Payola Allegations In New Class Action
05 Nov 2025 22:23 GMT
… streaming giant of reviving payola through its controversial Discovery … to the well-known radio payola scandals of the 20th … limited areas such as Radio, Autoplay and select Mixes … consideration in limited contexts: Radio, Autoplay, and certain Mixes …
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Class Action Lawsuit Accuses Spotify of Engaging in ‘Payola’ in Discovery Mode
05 Nov 2025 22:14 GMT
… accuses Spotify of engaging in “payola” to allow record labels to … employs a “modern form of payola” where they sell visibility on … algorithmic consideration in limited contexts: Radio, Autoplay, and certain Mixes,” the …
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Spotify Sued Over Discovery Mode: ‘A Modern Form of Payola’
05 Nov 2025 19:34 GMT
… tools are a “deceptive pay-for-play” program, but that the … to payola, or the practice of secretly paying radio stations … , are also subject to pay-for-play. But it fails to … are shaped by undisclosed pay-for-play arrangements and hidden commercial …
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EXCLUSIVE: Spotify Accused Of “Modern Payola” In Second Explosive Class Action This Week
05 Nov 2025 02:42 GMT
… streaming giant of committing “modern payola.”
Spotify is being accused of … music industry’s oldest scandal—pay-for-play—in a sweeping new class … a digital echo of radio’s historic payola scandals, stretching back to …
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NHS Pay for Play? Why patient satisfaction could be a risky business
22 Jul 2025 07:42 GMT
To protect everyone it may be of benefit if the patient’s voice could resonate alongside a peer review or internal audit, writes Sheilagh Foley
While in London recently I tuned into a radio debate concerning new plans for the NHS. Apparently, the famous …
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UCF athletic director sees change in football culture under coach Scott Frost
03 Nov 2025 15:06 GMT
… pregame appearance on the Knights’ radio broadcast.
UCF is more than … settlement that essentially introduced a pay-for-play model. Schools, like UCF, now …
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U.S. college sports' legalized pay-for-play future threatens to strand Canadian athletes in amateur past
12 Jun 2025 18:34 GMT
… unpaid students. But legalizing pay-for-play breaks college sports open along … but Nick Chubb and Sony Michel, who combined for … in the argument against pay for play. Football and basketball players … change, and legalizing pay-for-play is the most profound …
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Drake v. UMG: The Evolution Of Payola Practices
11 Sep 2025 17:42 GMT
… scrutinized for illicit payola practices. In 2006 … over traditional payola, where radio stations received payments … pay-for-play schemes.
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Despite decades of enforcement, illegal payola … pay-for-play schemes, and that UMG paid “at least one radio …