The main goal of streaming services is to keep you engaged. Netflix focuses on behavior over interests to power its algorithm. Timely titles will get top placement while erratic viewing habits can ...

Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre. Charley Crockett, a rising star in the roots-music field, performing in Nashville, Ind., in May.Credit ...

If our algorithms can code such human nuances into the machine learning process, perhaps our music landscape in the algorithm age could connect people better than anything else.

TV in 2023 explicitly and subliminally cast doubt on the sparkling future of streaming television.

Pluto TV pits human curation against streaming algorithms in new ad campaign Pluto TV thinks its human curators do a better job picking out what you want to watch.

All of which speaks to a big part of what makes this summer's hit songs feel so stale: Thanks in large part to streaming algorithms — and radio programmers who often take their cues from what's ...