Tag : fraud prevention

22 Feb 2018

How AI & Data Analytics could have prevented an amazing Spotify fraud

We`re not sure if you already have heard about this and if not, keep in mind that those couple of minutes will be more than worthy.

The Spotify Fraud

Unknown scammer, allegedly from Bulgaria generated about $3m revenue out of creating and continuously playing a couple of playlists with tracks with an average length of 43 seconds. Spotify is paying artists about $0.004 per play and the fraudster has registered around 1200 premium Spotify accounts, continuously rolling the playlists.

It is believed that such ‘performance’ was achieved via bots automating the skip and play game regarding the Spotify policy to pay for a listened track only its 30 seconds or more. This way, the playlists called ‘Soulful Music’ and ‘Music From The Heart’ became played so many times they made it to number 84 globally and 22 in the US in the playlists charts.

24 Nov 2016

5 FinTech Applications of Data Analytics

FinTech stands for Financial Technology. It is a common term used for companies offering added value or entirely new financial services via technology. Financial business is generating a huge amount of data also known as big data. This is where the point of intersection for Data Analytics and FinTech is located. We also have to keep in mind that FinTech covers a lot of financial business domains like asset management, insurance, lending, transferring money, to name a few. 

24 Oct 2016

5 real-life application of energy data analytics

From the Facebook ability to curate information flow designed for you, to the ability to read the human genome, modern data analytics has a lot of applications in different forms and shapes. So does the energy sector.

Businesses can apply analytics for reaching insights into every process and to explore optimization opportunities. Starting with better-managed operations to the demand side of commercial channels but analytics also is opening a lot of new opportunities related to smart grids, smart homes, renewable energy, etc. Since at A4E we are tempted by all things analytics, in this blog post we share real-life application of energy data analytics.