Large-Scale Generation of ML Podcast Previews at Spotify with Google Dataflow
As of March 8, 2023, Spotify has started serving short previews for music, podcasts, and audiobooks on the home feed. (You can see the announcement at Stream On , starting at 19:15.) This is a huge lift for in-app content discovery — a move away from making listening decisions based on static content, such as cover art, to using the audio content itself as a teaser. It has been an effort across ma