‘Taal se ad mila’: Personalised ads and music streaming platforms
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Media, marketing & advertising segment of the business daily Financial Express, from The Indian Express Group
Has it happened to you that you are playing a sad song and the next moment, the music streaming platform offers a bunch of other sad songs that you can listen to? Now imagine, if the music streaming platform could use the same data that it uses to suggest you similar songs and give you personalised ads? Would you sit through the ad??
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