In a move that many see as long overdue, Spotify has effectively shut down pay-for-playlist slot site SpotLister. But more than a dozen similar pay for play services continue to operate.
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Spotify disconnected SpotLister from its API last week, effectively shutting down the pay-for-playlist add marketplace. SpotLister offered users the ability to buy onto more than 1500 Spotify playlists with more than 11.5 million collective followers.
Pay for play or payola is explicitly forbidden on Spotify. Its terms of service prohibit the “selling a user account or playlist, or otherwise accepting any compensation, financial or otherwise, to influence the name of an account or playlist or the content included on an account or playlist.”
Until recently, however, the music streamer has taken little concrete action against offenders.
