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Spotify Masterclass Teaches Artists How to Avoid Fake Stream Schemes: ‘This Is a Moving Target’

Spotify launched a new masterclass to help artists understand what artificial streaming is and how to prevent them from falling for scams related to it.

If I can add a second thing it would be: start to open up a proactive discussion with your distributor or your label to make them aware if you see anything abnormal happen to your account. There’s an industry body called Music Fights Fraud Alliance, which is a collection of digital services, like Spotify, and rights holders, like distributors and labels. From your vantage point, what are some of the measures that have been have implemented over the last few years that have shown really strong results in decreasing artificial streams?What has been the most effective?

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