Spotify Officially Announces New Policy for Royalty Payouts, "Artificial" Streams, and "Functional Noise"
Briefly

The other major policy changes announced today are targeted at practices the company considers fraudulent: streaming bots and short-form 'functional noise' content.
Based on Spotify's current per-stream rate, 1,000 annual streams generates around $3, often below the minimum that many distributors require before making payouts to artists.
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