SPOTIFY

UNLOCKED:
BIG DATA ANALYSIS

2023
REVEALS THE
SECRETS OF YOUR
FAVORITE MUSIC
PLATFORM
TEAM INFO
TEAM ENROLLME
MEMBERS NT NUMBER

DARSH 200280116123
CHANGANI

ANISH PATEL 200280116117

200280116107
PRIYANSHU
VASAVA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 3

Big data in Spotify 4

How spotify collects data? 5

How spotify processes data? 6

Strength & weaknesses 7

Analysis 8

Opportunities 10

Threats & challenges 12

INTRODUCTION
SPOTIFY IS A DIGITAL MUSIC STREAMING SERVICE
THAT ALLOWS USERS TO ACCESS MILLIONS OF
SONGS, PODCASTS, AND VIDEOS FROM VARIOUS
ARTISTS AND CREATORS ALL OVER THE WORLD. IT
OFFERS BOTH FREE AND PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION
PLANS, WITH FEATURES SUCH AS PERSONALIZED
PLAYLISTS, OFFLINE LISTENING, AND HIGH-QUALITY
AUDIO. IS ONE OF THE LARGEST MUSIC STREAMING
SERVICE PROVIDERS, WITH OVER 489 MILLION
MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS, INCLUDING 205 MILLION
PAYING SUBSCRIBERS.
BIG DATA IN SPOTIFY
Spotify is a data driven comapany. Daily, Spotify users create 600 gigabytes of data
that the company uses to perfect its algorithms and machines to improve customer
experiences.

In addition, Spotify crawls the web constantly to look for blog posts and other pieces of
text about music to understand what people are saying about specific artists and
songs, as well as which other artists and songs are being discussed alongside them.

Spotify makes data driven decisions and for that in turn, data and data infrastructure
are required. At Spotify, data is generated by users and for the users.
 HOW SPOTIFY COLLECTS DATA?

PLAYLISTS ANALYSIS PERSONALIZATION

INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT MUSIC USING NEURAL NETWORKS TO PERSONAL CHOICES AS

IS TREATED AS SIMILAR PREDICT THE DATA ONLY FROM THE LIKES/DISLIKES/SKIP, LANGUAGES,
AUDIO SIGNAL GENRE, AND FAVOURITE ARTISTS
HOW SPOTIFY
PROCESSES
DATA?
Storage
Big Data datasets stored on
distributed file systems or
within a distributed database
are already partitioned into
smaller datasets
Process
Big Data is often processed in
parallel in a distributed
fashion at the location in Servers
which it is stored
Spotify has a ~2500 node on-
premise Apache Hadoop
cluster, one of the largest
deployments in Europe, that
runs more than 20K jobs a
day.
HUGE LIBRARY
SPOTIFY HAS OVER 20 MILLION SONGS ONLINE
AND 20.000 NEW SONGS THAT ARE ADDED EVERY
DAY TO THE DATABASE

ALGORITHM FOR RECOMMENDATIONS

SPOTIFY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SURVIVE
WITHOUT BIG DATA TECHNIQUES. MOST OF THE
DATA IS SIGNIFICANT FOR THE USER AND

STRENGTH
PROVIDES THEM WITH VARIOUS MUSIC
RECOMMENDATIONS. THIS DATA IS USED TO
IDENTIFY TRENDS, EXAMINE THE CONSEQUENCES
OF AN EVENT ON A USER AND THE ENTIRE SYSTEM
AND TO FIND BUGS
 WEAKNESS

COMPETITIVE
LOCATION
OTHER PLATFORMS
LIMITED

SPOTIFY HAS IS ITS LOCATION-SPECIFIC THERE ARE OTHER COMPETITIONS LIKE APPLE
USAGE. THE APP DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO USE MUSIC,YT MUSIC AND RESSO THAT ARE FREE
IT FOR A PERIOD LONGER THAN 10 DAYS, IF YOU
ARE OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU
CREATED YOUR ACCOUNT OR PURCHASED YOUR
SUBSCRIPTION
THANK YOU