Spotify to lastly shut down Spotify Stay

Streaming service Spotify introduced that it’s shutting down Spotify Stay, a dwell radio station function the place customers may hearken to conversations as they occurred.

Spotify Stay initially started with Locker Room, a sports-centric model of the app Clubhouse, which Spotify bought in 2021. Mainly, the thought was to supply listeners an area the place they might join straight with one another and hearken to creators dwell. Finally, Spotify launched Spotify Greenroom. The thought was the identical as Locker Room, however Greenroom would cater to all types of pursuits and niches outdoors of sports activities. In 2022, Greenroom was rebranded as Spotify Stay, bringing us as much as at this time.

Whereas Spotify Stay has been round for some time, you could not have heard a lot about it, as a result of it by no means actually took off, and accordingly, you may not be too stunned it’s shutting down. In line with Spotify, the service shall be totally shut down by 30 April 2023, so for those who’re in any respect enthusiastic about taking a look at what may have been, you higher do it whilst you nonetheless can.

In an e-mail to Gizmodo, Spotify had the next to say about Spotify Stay, “After a interval of experimentation and learnings round how Spotify customers work together with dwell audio, we’ve made the choice to sundown the Spotify Stay app,” persevering with, “We consider there’s a future for dwell fan-creator interactions within the Spotify ecosystem; nevertheless, primarily based on our learnings, it now not is sensible as a standalone app. We have now seen promising ends in the artist-focused use case of ‘listening events,’ which we are going to proceed to discover shifting ahead to facilitate dwell interactions between artists and followers.”

Whereas Spotify Stay could also be going away, it doesn’t seem to be Spotify plans to cease attempting new issues. In 2023, Spotify launched its AI-powered DJ and in addition up to date its interface to sport a brand new TikTok-style dwelling feed stuffed with music video clips and different visuals versus its normal lists. Plus, Spotify HiFi is ever on the horizon, too, and can hopefully come ultimately.