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Programming Placements vs Editorial Programming

MariaDavis — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:25:21 GMT

If anything, I am trying to understand what I see on my end. On Instagram, I see other artists thanking Pandora to be included in playlists and they show their song added in programming placements, but all I ever see is the Fresh Cuts playlist if I end up getting a song on there. Example below.

However, when I go to my catalog and pick any song at all, I can see details that show me the song is in a ton of playlists that appear to be editorial programmed playlists. Pics below to show what I mean.

I used my track, "Imaginarium" as an example here. All I can see are the top 10 sources for the editorial programming, but aren't these programming placements? All the icons have the Pandora "P" logo on the top left. If these are programmed placements, then why do they not show up on my main page in the place where I can see a track added to the Fresh Cuts playlist? If they are not programmed placements, and editorial placements are different, can you please tell me the difference between the two? Also, if they are different, how can I get my songs in programming placements besides the fresh cuts playlist? The track I used an example here made it to a million streams within 10 months of it's release. It's been live for 13 months now and is still going strong at 1.4+ million. What does Pandora look at to get a track programmed? Or, do I already have this when I see all the playlists under editorial programming? Sorry if this sounds confusing, I'm just trying to better understand the data I see.

Re: Programming Placements vs Editorial Programming

MariaDavis — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:53:20 GMT

ChrisPandora or anyone, can someone help clarify this?

Re: Programming Placements vs Editorial Programming

ChrisPandora — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:59:27 GMT

Hey @MariaDavis - I completely understand where you're coming from.

In general, the Programming Placements module will only populate if your music has been programmed by Pandora's curation team to stations and playlists. In other words, an editorial programming should lead to a "Programming Placement".

With that being said, I am happy to look into why you see Editorial stations in your Catalog tab but not in the Programming Placement section.

I have gone ahead and escalated this internally. You will be getting an email follow up so be on the look out for that.

We appreciate your patience and understanding while we check this out ✌️

Re: Programming Placements vs Editorial Programming

1ST — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:05:24 GMT

Programming is different from editorial anybody can make a playlist on Pandora those are programming placements and Editorial is a official Curator Radio station that’s approved by Pandora

Ramell Douglas

mod edit: removed personal information

Re: Programming Placements vs Editorial Programming

MariaDavis — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:55:24 GMT

Oh okay, so they are kinda the same thing. Yea, not sure why they don't show up in the programming placements, and I really appreciate you looking into it.

Re: Programming Placements vs Editorial Programming

MariaDavis — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:25:09 GMT

Any update on this at all? It's been months. Thanks.

Re: Programming Placements vs Editorial Programming

ChrisPandora — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:06:56 GMT

Hey @MariaDavis - We appreciate your patience while we have been investigating this.

A team mate will be reaching out to you via email soon. 📧

Re: Programming Placements vs Editorial Programming

MariaDavis — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:33:50 GMT

It's been nearly another month since I was told I would be contacted shortly, and nobody has reached out to me. Look, I love Pandora, it's my favorite platform, but this is very disheartening to never hear back with an update or anything. It's been nearly 5 months since I first brought up this issue!! Why do I not get notifications of a song being added to a playlist, and why are my programming placements not showing any of the playlists I'm in except for Fresh Cuts? I can look at any given track and see that the songs are in editorial placements, ones with the pandora logo in the top left of the thumbnail. This has been an issue that has apparently been going on for years on my end, and it wasn't until November of last year that I realized that I should have been seeing them under programming placements.

I was told that "An editorial programming should lead to a "Programming Placement" directly from someone at Pandora named Chris, who has been replying to my inquiries, but nothing has gone any further than that.

Will somebody, anybody, help me please???