I've featured a dozen or so tracks in my time being a Pandora creator. Historically, Featured campaigns worked really well, showing a good number of featured spins in addition to the organic spins. The last two tracks I've featured, generated ZERO featured spins (the second campaign is still running so we'll see but none so far). I asked support and never got an clear explanation. Has anyone else noticed Featured Campaigns no longer providing any benefit? Anyone know why this might be the case (and what's the point offering a feature campaign if it doesn't add value)? Thanks in advance, Scott
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I could really use some guidance. My artist projects: Fragments of Tomorrow and Christian Music Project were taken down from Pandora for “alleged streaming fraud.” My distributor (DistroKid) confirmed that the takedown originated from Pandora and cannot be reverse on their end. But when I reach out to Pandora support, I’m told to contact my distributor, so I feel completely stuck in this loop with no clear way forward. I haven’t done anything wrong and have followed their guidelines. I just feel helpless since there isn’t anything I can do on my end to fix this. I also have listeners reaching out saying they were disappointed my music is gone. This isn’t only affecting me, it’s affecting fans who follow my releases. I’ve emailed AMP support several times but keep getting the same general response. I’m hoping someone from the AMP or content team can review this and advise me on next steps. Thanks so much for any guidance or direction, I really appreciate it.
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As you may be aware, Pandora is currently celebrating its 20th birthday! Before Pandora’s historic launch as the one of the first personalized online radio platforms, we were a company called Savage Beast. And Savage Beast’s big idea was something called The Music Genome Project.
The Music Genome Project has been extensively covered here and elsewhere, but, in a nutshell, Savage Beast’s founder, Tim Westergren had the idea that if you analyzed music on a song-by-song basis, that information could be used to create playlists that would help listeners discover new music they loved.
The Music Genome Project worked, and here we are twenty years later, one fifth of the way to building the hundred-year company that Westergren envisioned.
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