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Artificial Streaming Identified Service
This service was identified by my distributor LANDR as a known bot artificial streaming service and all added playlists were confirmed by artist.tools, a Spotify bot checker, as bot playlists. This "organic" playlist service violates Spotify use policy with their practices. I contacted the company and requested to be removed from the added playlists, but was not accommodated. Not until the Spotify review was completed, after they confirmed artificial streams of the playlists, that finally the playlists themselves were taken down. So, three separate companies all identified Groove Hub Agency added playlists had artificial streaming across all 12 playlists. In the meantime I had to pause my song on Spotify, which was just released. That process took about a month. However, if you don't act fast enough, your song can be blacklisted, and you can be dropped from your distributor, and you get no payout for those streams.



