Spotify Begins Rolling Out Podcast Rating Feature

Spotify has introduced that it’s bringing a ranking characteristic for podcasts, as a part of the corporate’s efforts to enhance podcast discovery on the platform. Users will be capable of assign as much as 5 stars to a podcast after they’ve listened to it. The new ranking characteristic will be part of the corporate’s Podcast Charts suggestions characteristic. Spotify says {that a} podcast’s common ranking can be displayed on the present’s web page on Spotify, together with the overall variety of scores obtained by the present. Apple equally lets customers price podcasts on the Apple Podcasts platform.

The audio streaming service defined the upcoming characteristic in a blog post, stating that it’ll start rolling out a ranking system for podcasts. Spotify says that the brand new podcast ranking characteristic will assist to allow a “two-way feedback loop” between creators and listeners on the platform whereas permitting customers to assist their favorite podcasts. Creators will be capable of test their scores as soon as their present has obtained 10 scores, in line with one other post on the Anchor weblog.

Spotify says that the ranking characteristic may help podcast creators generate curiosity, and scores will assist them usher in new listeners. The service additionally says that podcast house owners may test how their present is performing, and ask customers for particular suggestions. Users will be capable of price a podcast after they’ve listened to a minimum of 30 seconds of a podcast, which seems to be a measure to forestall downvote brigading.

The characteristic will start rolling out to customers over the approaching days, in line with Spotify, in most markets the place Spotify podcasts can be found. Users who wish to price a podcast can faucet on the ranking instantly from the present’s web page, or faucet on the three-dot menu underneath the duvet artwork of the podcast. The service has additionally advisable that podcast house owners begin informing their customers concerning the new characteristic to construct up their ranking on the app.